Brand strategy & creative direction

Brand strategy, identity & brandbook

Blackbird
Cloud

A cloud consultancy built on partnership, transparency and technical expertise.

Role
Brand strategy
Creative rationale
Art direction
Brandbook
Year
2025
Discipline
Brand identity
Live
blackbird.cloud
The question

Cloud consultancies can feel technical and distant. Blackbird is different: they become part of your team, lead by example and share their work openly on GitHub.

How do you build a cloud brand that feels genuinely human, without losing technical credibility?

The approach

We positioned Blackbird as the partner in crime of the cloud world: technically sharp, radically open and always part of the team.

From there, I built the brand from strategy to identity: defining the positioning, personality and values, then translating them into a visual world centred around the blackbird. A graphic bird, mono logo and one orange dot, surrounded by warm tones, rounded shapes and playful moments like Wanna fly?

The full concept came together in the brandbook and an explainer video, bringing the strategy, story and visual identity into one clear system.

Brand photography
Digital presentation
Brand identity on discs
Wanna fly tote bag
Office glass signing
“Fully reliable cloud based solutions. No worries, we got you.”
THE BRAND ESSENCE