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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.


