Maed identity redesign
Maed is an online marketing academy. Students learn strategy, research and brand building from people who do this work for a living.
Before the redesign Maed didn't really have a visual language: communications ran on basic templates that could belong to anyone. Our task was to create a design concept rooted in marketing itself and grow it into a full system, from communications to the learning platform.
Maed identity redesign
Maed is an online marketing academy. Students learn strategy, research and brand building from people who do this work for a living.
Before the redesign Maed didn't really have a visual language: communications ran on basic templates that could belong to anyone. Our task was to create a design concept rooted in marketing itself and grow it into a full system, from communications to the learning platform.
Client
Maed
Team
Andy Karter
Art director, graphic designer
Dasha Shmakova
CG & Motion Designer
Masha Asaulyak
Illustrator
Services
Art Direction
Identity
Typography
3D
Communications
Creative Direction
Graphics
Illustration
Motion
Date
Jun. 2025
The concept
Marketing is everyday work, so the concept comes from an everyday place. We built it around a marketer's desk from the 2000s: a beige computer, a lamp, sticky notes, stationery. The mess has its own logic, with rough drafts slowly turning into a clear system.
The idea reads instantly and needs no explanation, which is why communications were the first thing we rebuilt on it.
Type
Times New Roman and Arial are the default fonts of every office document. Nobody chooses them, they're just there. We took both and merged them into one typographic system. A small office joke that ended up defining the whole style.
Color
The palette borrows from the office environment as well. Bright sticky note colors work as accents: pink, blue and yellow. For balance we added the calmer tones of office paper and old folders: warm white, gray and green.
Illustrations
We drew a large pack of marker illustrations, the kind an ordinary office worker would doodle during a call. A textured brush adds the feel of a wet black marker, the one that lives in every office drawer.
The system
The identity works as a kit that reshuffles for any task, from course decks to merch. For social media we built a pack of ready-made templates, so posts that used to be assembled from scratch now come together much faster.
Communications are already running on the new system, consistent for the first time, and the rest of the brand carriers are in progress.
