Gray Currents brand emblem painted on riveted white metal background.

Currents / Branding & Collateral

Destination Home.

Wherever the currents of your life take you, Currents is your home port. The management of the apartment homes on Harbor Lane wanted to refresh the building complex and to create a name and identity based on a theme of the by-gone era of passenger steamships. With details such as faux rusty steel beams, heavy iron straps and rivets, images of turn-of-the-century bathing beauties and other vintage ship and nautical elements already underway, we jumped onboard to develop an appropriate name, logo and brand culture. We went on to create exterior and interior signage and building detailing to extend the identity into the building complex itself. We also created a website design, business system, key tags and other collateral pieces.

Work & Credits

Our Work: Discovery, naming, visual brand identity, website, signage , interior graphics, exterior elements & marketing collateral

Naming Copywriter: Ginny Figlar

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Print of Currents early logo design concepts

Early logo design exploration.

Gray, black and white Currents primary wordmark with textured type and three stars.
Warm gray Currents secondary logo marks including a star emblem, “Destination Home” typemark and icon with anchor intertwined with a “C”.
Rustic brand stars, color palette, fonts and warm photo style shown via photo of girl holding up dog’s large ears with “We heart pets” headline.

Print

Red, gray and cream print collateral including travel tag-shaped  letterpress printed business cards, themed postcards, paper tote bag and brand stamps.

Website

Currents website home page shown on various electronic devices. Home page images include apartment and lifestyle images.

Signage

Currents complex entrance circle with rusty metal whale tail sculpture ringed by cut, silver waves and large dimensional wordmark letters.
Currents ship-inspired rusty metal monument sign with base of cut metal waves. Diagram of trailblazer pillar.
Entrance pillar star with “Welcome aboard” copy and rusty metal trailblazer parking sign.

Secondary Entrances

Orange, gray and cream secondary entrance pylon with brand logo, patterns and “South Entrance” title.

Main Entry

Lobby entrance stairway with painted wall graphics of type and natutical icons.
Deck House Lounge and Coffee Steamer nook with nautical-themed painted wall graphics.

Pool

Indoor pool hallway with swimming-themed photo mural and portholes on cream shiplap wall.
Currents indoor pool. Ship-themed interior front and side views.
Indoor ship-themed pool room with rusty metal beams and ship themed facade.
Pool wall detail photos, including anchor, port holes, logo and life preserver.

Pool Restrooms

Indoor pool women’s bathroom with photo mural of vintage women swimmers.
Indoor pool men’s bathroom with photo mural of vintage male swimmers.

Fitness Center

Currents Fitness Center entry door graphic, photo wall mural and painted branded wall graphics.
Fitness center wall photo mural of vintage  athletes and panted brand graphics.

Secondary Lobbies

Secondary entrance lobby wall graphics including “Ahoy!” message and cream, gray and rust-colored paint.
Detail photos of Currents secondary entrance stairway wall graphics.

Stairwell Graphics

Currents secondary entrance stairway with painted gray, blue and gold map wall graphics with “Destination Home.” tagline.

Laundry Centers

Green panted Laundry Center painted hallway graphic mural. Includes logos, laundry-themed icons and infographics trumpeting the eco benefits of sharing laundry equipment.
Currents Laundry Center interior wall graphic elevations and a finished painted wall with table.

Apparel

Currents of Plymouth embroidered logo hats and printed tees. Maintenance Crew shirt reads, “Ship Happens!”
 

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