Maed identity redesign

Client

Maed

Services

Art Direction

Identity

Typography

3D

Communications

Creative Direction

Graphics

Illustration

Motion

Date

Jun. 2025

Team

Andy Karter

Art director, graphic designer

Dasha Shmakova

CG & Motion Designer

Masha Asaulyak

Illustrator

Maed is an online marketing academy. Students learn strategy, research and brand building from people who do this work for a living.

Before the redesign Maed didn't really have a visual language: communications ran on basic templates that could belong to anyone. Our task was to create a design concept rooted in marketing itself and grow it into a full system, from communications to the learning platform.

Maed identity redesign

Maed is an online marketing academy. Students learn strategy, research and brand building from people who do this work for a living.

Before the redesign Maed didn't really have a visual language: communications ran on basic templates that could belong to anyone. Our task was to create a design concept rooted in marketing itself and grow it into a full system, from communications to the learning platform.

Client

Maed

Team

Andy Karter

Art director, graphic designer

Dasha Shmakova

CG & Motion Designer

Masha Asaulyak

Illustrator

Services

Art Direction

Identity

Typography

3D

Communications

Creative Direction

Graphics

Illustration

Motion

Date

Jun. 2025

The concept

Marketing is everyday work, so the concept comes from an everyday place. We built it around a marketer's desk from the 2000s: a beige computer, a lamp, sticky notes, stationery. The mess has its own logic, with rough drafts slowly turning into a clear system.

The idea reads instantly and needs no explanation, which is why communications were the first thing we rebuilt on it.

Type

Times New Roman and Arial are the default fonts of every office document. Nobody chooses them, they're just there. We took both and merged them into one typographic system. A small office joke that ended up defining the whole style.

Color

The palette borrows from the office environment as well. Bright sticky note colors work as accents: pink, blue and yellow. For balance we added the calmer tones of office paper and old folders: warm white, gray and green.

Illustrations

We drew a large pack of marker illustrations, the kind an ordinary office worker would doodle during a call. A textured brush adds the feel of a wet black marker, the one that lives in every office drawer.

The system

The identity works as a kit that reshuffles for any task, from course decks to merch. For social media we built a pack of ready-made templates, so posts that used to be assembled from scratch now come together much faster.

Communications are already running on the new system, consistent for the first time, and the rest of the brand carriers are in progress.