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ContentCal had already established great relationships with their customers and a good reputation in the market. Business was growing. They had developed a strong internal culture. But they needed to tell a stronger and more consistent story to hit the ambitious targets they’d set for themselves.We kicked things off by immersing ourselves in all things ContentCal. The product, the people, the market. We explored their previous strategy work and audited all their existing materials. This led us to a strong story and brand position built on the idea of ‘Get Clear’.

Immersion

Simple, intuitive easy to use

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With a desire from within their team to retain some of the brand equity they had established, we thought carefully about the story their logo was telling. It spoke of planning, precision and calendar placement – but felt static and uninspired. ContentCal is much more than that, and plans to go further still with moves into AI and automation. So we experimented with ideas around artificial intelligence and a more dynamic, organic approach to moving data and messaging. Content that takes on a life of its own. This led us to the morphing shapes which became the foundation of the updated logo and the catalyst for the identity system as a whole.

Evolving the story 

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ContentCal brings content to life. It connects the marketing team and opens the door to content creators from across the business. It simplifies the planning and allows the right content to move freely through your various channels and platforms. In the future it will even do this intelligently on your behalf. The morphing shapes that sit at the heart of the updated identity bring these ideas to life, giving ContentCal a fluidity and sense of movement that connects and evolves. They layer around illustrations and photography to illustrate the depth to the connectivity ContentCal offers its users.

Finding fluidity

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Airborne worked closely with ContentCal on the redesign of their website. We dissected the experience and architecture and rethought it based on the goals they’d set – primarily to drive leads towards a free trial. Post launch, ContentCal reported an immediate bump in all key metrics – from visits, pages viewed, bounce rates and most importantly conversions.

Website update

Home page above the fold

Take the management pain away

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Creative heart of your planning process

By the people for the people

Within 6 months of the rebrand they had secured their Series A funding, then at the start of this year (2022) they were acquired by Adobe. An incredible start-up story and one we were very proud to have played a part in.

Outcome

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Celebrated London start-up ContentCal built a marketing platform that makes creating, scheduling and managing content across all channels super simple. After 4 years of growth from embryonic idea to established market player they began working towards their Series A funding round and made brand a top priority.

We were thrilled at the chance to help shape their future. Working closely with their team, we delivered a bold new brand position and tone of voice, comprehensive identity system and striking new website design.

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The updated brand identity and web experience reflects the dynamic, modern business they have evolved into. They are connectors and loving custodians of pop-culture. They are trusted experts. Their identity is now sophisticated and confident, designed to make the iconic artifacts they handle the heroes of their brand.

The future of nostalgia

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Propstore’s collectors are the keepers of entertainment history and, as a team of fervent enthusiasts, they share their hunger for the hunt.  They are the keepers of the faith, the veriﬁers of authenticity and as the champions of quality, they represent the gold standard for content.  As the world&#39;s leading source and authority for ﬁlm and television artifacts, Propstore make the extraordinary accessible, putting the electricity, the nostalgia, the discovery and the thrill of the auction ﬁrmly within reach.

The custodian’s custodian

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Propstore’s catalog is vast and ever changing. They sell rare, unique pop-culture atifacts on demand all year round. They also have auctions of different types and sizes throughout the year – including two showstopping events either side of the Atlantic. Their original site was creaking at the seams, which gave us the opportunity to tackle the design from the ground up. Following our research and a full audit, we completely reimagined the whole experience. The navigation, search, product presentation, information architecture, shopping cart, membership areas, the auction site – everything. The impact has been immediate, with the subsequent auction breaking all previous records and an immediate spike in all important site metrics.

Improving journeys and outcomes

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Propstore have a large and well established audience, a deeply passionate community of collectors. The rebrand and website update represented a giant leap forward, so it was vital that we managed this carefully. We developed the Find your extraordinary campaign to introduce the new identity first to their existing audience and partners, but then also to the wider world. The campaign has been a huge success to date, seeing a big spike in interactions over all previous campaigns and driving unprecedented traffic towards the new site.

Find your extraordinary

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Propstore are pop-culture collectible pioneers. They forged a whole new sector when they started auctioning real props from movie studio archives 25 years ago (these would often just get discarded would you believe). They have since gone on to connect collectors and fans with some of entertainment’s most treasured artifacts.

Re-branding a movie memorabilia auction house

Propstore

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We transformed Findrs&#39; brand and online presence with immediate results. The identity is bold, conversational and playful. Within hours of launch, the impact of the updates was felt, with a flurry of response and activity. Findrs are a lighthearted, ambitious and fast growing company with a very human core to the way they operate – they now have a brand and online presence which reflects this.

Immediate impact

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Good people aren’t hard to find. They’re everywhere, if you’re looking through the right pair of lenses. Findrs’ lens is focused on their values and the belief that if you work hard and be nice to people, good things will come your way. Be decent humans and you’ll meet more decent humans, whether that’s start-ups who are on the same page or candidates who are looking for the right team to grow with.

The good people people 

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We helped innovative tech recruitment business Findrs completely reimagine their identity and web experience. Findrs believe that if you work hard and be nice to people, good things will come your way. 

Presenting the good people people

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Campanio is about much more than just business and accounting, it exists as a vehicle to reimagine what it is to be an independent sovereign human in the twenty-first century. It’s about positively disrupting the way businesses are structured. Empowering more people to share in a liberated working life. Companio go much further than just offering business services, they share resources, experiences, connections and knowledge with their clients. Their goal is to put freedom within everyone’s reach. This is what sets them apart.

Sharing freedom

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The visual language evolved to be fluid, adaptive and ever changing. A range of abstracted shapes and a vibrant palette allow for an almost infinite number of layout compositions, reflecting the positive disruption Companio strive to enact in the world. Their service is not a one-size-fits-all. Their solutions are quite literally pushing the boundaries for modern businesses, and as such they are constantly evolving. This mixture of positivity and possibility sits at the heart of Companio’s visual identity system.

Moving borders

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Companio are a business innovating in a conservative field. Registering a business, dealing with tax, managing accounts – these cannot be taken lightly. The persona of a Companio client is a business owner or entrepreneur already thinking outside the status quo, but even here, it is important that professionalism, knowledge and transparency are firmly established within the brand. We looked at the use of colour and typography around the bolder elements of the identity to help build this trust with Companio’s audience.

Trust in change

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Having started life as ‘Your Company in Estonia’ in 2018, this innovative business quickly grew to become the top foreign owned connector to Estonia’s innovative e-citizenship scheme. By 2021, their vision had expanded. They aim to become the leading provider of business and accounting services for borderless companies in and outside the Estonian scheme.

The founders Ignacio and Miguel came to Airborne Studio with a new name and the brief to completely re-imagine their brand and identity. We worked closely with them to define exactly who they are and what they stand for, before bringing Companio to life with a fresh visual and verbal identity system.

ContentCal

Re-branding one of the UK’s fastest growing SaaS startups