Turf
How Inspiration Gets Real
Turf, the leader in creative acoustic solutions to today’s leading architects and designers, approached Athletics to craft a sophisticated brand strategy and visual identity to further elevate their position in the market. Turf’s identity and site experience expresses the playfulness, adaptability, and joy Turf brings to every project, even under pressure.
Our Role:
Strategy
Art Direction
Brand Identity
Brand Writing
Concept Development
Motion Graphics
UI / UX Design
Design and Development
Experience Design
Collaborators:
Turf, CATK, HDR on Neocon interiors, Steve Hall for NeoCon imagery
Playful, Fearless, and Empathetic
Turf approached Athletics to develop a new brand strategy and visual identity to present a more grown-up face to the world. They have grown at record pace, finding success working with some of the world’s most ambitious architects, designers and companies, helping them to bring their creative vision into reality. They wanted a brand that reflected that, without losing their authentic Turf flavor. To this end, a key part of Turf’s identity is their serious commitment to bringing playfulness, adaptability, and joy to every project, especially when the pressure’s on. To achieve this, Turf listens deeply for pain-points in the design process, introducing automation in ways that mean their customers can focus on the best parts of being creative and leave the noise behind.
Modularity meets playfulness
Turf’s wordmark consists of building blocks that reflect the modularity of their product, a metaphor for the ability to bring any form to life with Turf. Brand recall is central to the Turf mark while Turf’s iconic T monogram can be cropped tightly and used as supergraphics. The building block shapes can also be used as image windows, modular UI elements, and inspiration for illustration.
A perfect balance of function and expression
Tomato Grotesk pictured above was chosen as the primary typeface for Turf because of its geometric shapes and accentuated contrast that give it a strong personality that works in print and one screen at a versatile range of sizes. For Turf, typography leads with function and clarity, while leaving room for playful quirks and a youthful sense of humor
“This was such an adventure to go from figuring out how we wanted to talk about Turf, to launching a new brand and website! This is the culmination of a year’s worth of work and dedication among the team. We have all worked together to create something incredible with the Turf brand.”
Faraz Shah. Brand Director at Turf
