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Brand Identity

2026

Aether

Client

Aether Labs

Role

Identity, Naming, Guidelines

Category

Brand Identity

Year

2026

(Overview)

A new identity for a climate-tech lab that needed to sound as precise as its science — and look nothing like its competitors.

A mark built from air

Aether studies how cities breathe. Their old identity looked like every other green-tech start-up: a leaf, a gradient, a promise. We started from their data instead — airflow maps, pressure readings, the shapes wind makes around buildings.

The result is a flexible mark that bends like a streamline, a warm orange that stands out in grey labs, and a type system strict enough for research papers and loud enough for a conference stage.

The system

Stationery, a 60-page guideline, motion principles and a template kit that lets their small team ship on-brand work without calling us every week.

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Noir

CTRL
Independent studio — Est. 2019
Design
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Motion
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