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🦠 Wired Magazine
💙 Human Rights Campaign
🎤 iHeartRadio
🔴 YouTube
🏗️ Carhartt
🥩 Beyond Meat
PAPERWEIGHTS
2024 D&AD New Blood: The Portfolios Awards, Winner
2024 Indigo Design Awards Silver Winner in Infographics
2024 Indigo Design Awards Silver Winner in Digital Design
2023 GDUSA 61st Package Design Awards Winner
2023 The Design Kids Awards Winner
2023 Creative Review New Talent
2023 GDUSA Responsible Designer to Watch
2023 Fast Company Innovation by Design in North America
2023 GDUSA American GD Awards in Infographics
2023 Shorty Impact Award in News & Media
2022 Shorty Impact Award Best in Instagram Winner
2022 Webbys Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion Honoree
2022 Webbys Public Service & Activism Nominee
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shades
Logo Design
Art Direction
Visual Identity
2023
Julio Avalos, Founder
Grace Morrison, Creative Director
shades 🤔 fills you in. Spawned by ex-Facebook and ex-Google tech founding fathers, shades researches every topic in the cultural zeitgeist, and then curates and summarizes the best shades of opinion they find.
The rad people at shades tagged me to design the logo for their rebrand—they were then called cf.—attached with a beautiful new app design and navigation flow. I used a funky and spunky mindset to approach the new logo, employing visual play with the word ‘shades’ and letting it translate on screen. Something that can speak on digital and OOH alike. Here’s what I came up with.
Logo graveyard. Rest in peace ⚰️.