Geometric sculpture shapes in black and tan for Vale Gallery

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Art & Culture

2024

Vale Gallery

A contemporary gallery with an identity that steps back so the work can step forward.

Client

Vale

Sector

Art & Culture

Year

2024

Services

Identity, Wayfinding, Digital

(01) The brief

Vale was opening a second space and its first identity could not scale. Artists asked for a frame, not a stage.

The idea

We started by removing things. Old colours, extra marks, a tagline nobody remembered. What was left was a single idea about Vale that the whole team could say in one breath, and that idea shaped every decision that followed.

From there we built a system rather than a logo. Type, colour, photography and motion were tuned to work together, so the brand would feel the same on a shopfront in Milan and on a phone screen at midnight.

The craft

Every detail was drawn by hand before it was set in code. We tested the identity at thumbnail size and at billboard scale, in daylight and under warm interior light, until it held its character everywhere.

The result is a brand that feels quiet and certain. It does not shout for attention. It earns it.

61K

Visitors in the opening season

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Typeface built for the gallery

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