A carefully crafted and considered Brand ID reflecting the world of art-finance.
Overstone
Client
Year
Scope
2023
Editorial Design, Communication
Combining cross-industry expertise from the worlds of finance, art, and data science, Overstone helps lenders and collectors unlock the their art's value. Overstone's user-friendly platform bridges the gap between industries that don't speak each other's languages, removing guesswork and gambling when it comes to harnessing art's economic potential.
"Overstone requested a high-calibre pitch document designed to guide customers through its platform and boost confidence in the company's services. A tone of voice workshop with the team revealed the brand's desire to demonstrate a balance between the analytical, results-focused side of the business with the need to deliver an experience that felt exciting and unique."
To ensure a distinct look and feel for the document, demonstrating the individuality and original thinking at the heart of Overstone’s process, we created a bespoke design language of intersecting lines and imagery - reflecting the disparate industries Overstone’s software brings together - the slanted grid is paired with cropped images of fine art, positioned at these intersections at a dramatically reduced scale to ensure that art appears on every page without becoming a key focus.
We extended the design language into an adaptable key set of style elements, that define all communications within Overstone’s brand - from advertising, to presentations, to web rollout, to formal documents.
After reconsidering the existing copy to ensure the offering was being presented in a crystal clear and engaging way, accessible to anyone who might be reading it, the entire document was restructured to reduce comprehension fatigue. Sign-posting statements were introduced to help readers navigate the document quickly, and a workshop with the team resulted in a new tag-line for Overstone that better captured the ethos behind the brand. Finally, short biographies were written for each member of the team to highlight Overstone’s USP - a wide-reaching range of experience that transforms data-science into approachable, trustable information.