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Onyx Collective

Context

Position, name, and launch a new global, talent-driven media brand that champions unfiltered, unapologetic, unparalleled entertainment by creators of color.

Strategy

Build the premier entertainment platform for BIPOC and underrepresented creators by advancing emerging and established talent alike, giving them a space to thrive.

Solution

Leverage the unmatched resources of Disney to launch a powerful brand that actively reshapes culture with immediate impact, winning an Oscar within its first year.

Onyx Collective quote card that states "Wherever Black people go and forge a path, we tend to bring others with us"
Onyx Collective OOH billboard mockup showing Questlove promoting Summer of Soul
Onyx Collective business card in gold sand

Strategy + Naming

Building a community of BIPOC creators to impact culture on an epic scale.

Creators of color have an outsized but undervalued influence on popular entertainment. Recognizing the need for a new structure with the power to shift the dynamic of the media landscape, we worked with Disney to create a studio label on a mission to develop and promote original storytelling from underrepresented BIPOC artists in a monumental new way.

Enter Onyx Collective. The black Onyx stone is strong and indestructible, symbolizing self-confidence, wisdom, and protection with spiritual meanings connected to healing, balance, and fortitude in the face of challenges. Our foundational brand strategy amplifies these attributes to build a platform that champions the enduring legacy, beauty, and power of BIPOC voices, joining together and rising up as a powerful force.

Logo Design

Inspiring collective strength through individual empowerment.

Working towards the world premiere of Questlove’s Summer of Soul (which went on to win the Oscar for Best Documentary), we designed the Onyx Collective logo to project power and confidence.

The wordmark supports the studio’s ambition to develop prestige storytelling with mass appeal while being bold enough to stand alongside established brands within the Disney entertainment ecosystem. Utilizing the golden ratio—a cosmic constant found throughout the universe—we imagined the logo as a foundation upon which the brand can build into new dimensions.

Onyx Collective logo animation sunrise
Onyx Collective 3D logo animation
Onyx Collective logo animation
Onyx Collective logo animation

Logo Animation

Attracting audiences with the magnetism of a promising new horizon.

“Just like moons and like suns with the certainty of tides, just like hopes springing high, still I rise.” — Maya Angelou

Onyx Collective embodies the power of a shared vision. Our logo animation builds a world around this idea to tell an origin story: one of creators in collaboration, rising in numbers, highlighting collectivity as the connective tissue of the brand. Elemental masses are attracted by a universal gravitational force, joining together to signify the dawn of a new energy.

Onyx Collective Instagram grid on iPhone
Onyx Collective emblem icon system
Onyx Collective title card with text that says "The future of storytelling"
Onyx Collective vinyl record and sleeve mockup

Visual Identity System

An ecosystem of individual details that paints a bigger picture.

We designed the visual identity as an ecosystem inspired by elements from the natural world to evoke a place where creators can thrive and envision new horizons.

Colors draw from earth and skin tones, built around a system that translates renderings from the 3D logo animation into a distinct color palette. Photography is treated to showcase authenticity and diversity. The design system leverages form and function to assemble a visual language grounded by two key elements—Brand Armatures and Brand Emblems—which provide a foundational aesthetic and convey strength and timelessness. We designed the identity and social guidelines to provide a clear, unified framework while building in flexibility to evolve in the future.

Services

Brand Strategy –– Brand Architecture –– Naming –– Visual Identity –– Copywriting –– Logo Design –– Graphic Design –– Icon Design –– Animation –– CGI –– Toolkits –– Brand Guidelines

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