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One firm, one way of describing itself.

People Interface's consultants each described the firm differently, in pitches, on LinkedIn, in the room. Positioning work with the leadership team produced one shared answer, and the identity was built around it.

  • Brand Strategy
  • Positioning
  • Brand Identity

Project overview

Client
People Interface
Sector
Professional Services
Service
Brand StrategyPositioningBrand Identity
The full story is below

Background

The firm behind the advice.

People Interface is an HR consultancy whose consultants work directly with client leadership teams.

Their credibility depends on speaking with one voice, even though each consultant works largely on their own.

Project overview

Project overview

Client
People Interface
Location
Botswana
Website
peopleinterface.com
A team throwing papers into the air with the People Interface wordmark

The teamA team throwing papers in the air, the wordmark behind them. The identity was built for people who want work to feel like this.

A lit People Interface poster in a passage

Out of homeA poster in a passage. Rich Pink carries the identity even at a single colour, at night, from across the room.

Three framed People Interface posters on a concrete wall: Transforming Workplaces, Empowering your organization through culture, Enriching your organizational culture.

The postersThree posters, three headlines, one system. The gradient does the work of telling them apart.

Three scenes the identity was built to carry: a team, a poster in a passage, a wall of posters.

The problem

Too many answers.

Ask any consultant what the firm did and you got a different answer.

That inconsistency made the firm harder to trust and harder to remember, no matter how good the individual work was.

The stationery setLetterhead, card, envelope and pens. The mark small, the pink doing the work.
People Interface stationery: letterhead, business card, envelope and pens
The cardsA stack of cards in Rich Pink. One colour, one mark, a name.
A stack of People Interface business cards in Rich Pink
The bookEmpowering Your Workforce, One Culture at a Time. A consultancy sells its thinking, so the identity had to hold on a cover.
A hardback book in Rich Pink: Empowering Your Workforce
The printed pieces, the ones a consultancy still hands across a table. Open it full screen and read the captions.

Our approach

We found the shared answer, then built on it.

01

Positioning workshops

We ran sessions with the leadership team to surface how each of them actually described the firm. The differences and the common ground both became visible.

02

Finding the shared answer

We worked through the material until one clear position emerged that every leader recognised as true. That answer became the foundation for everything else.

03

Building the identity around it

We translated the shared position into a visual identity that consultants could use consistently, whatever the context.

01Primary

One colour carries the brand: Rich Pink, on cards, covers and the site.

Rich Pink#E91E63
02The gradient

The three colours the signature gradient runs through, pink to purple.

Light Pink#F39AD4
Light Purple#F17AF2
Purple#C257D9
03Support

Used one at a time behind a figure or a card, never all together.

Blue#8CACD5
Aqua#48C0C1
Yellow#E1C878

Rich Pink is the value the brand strategy publishes. The others are read from the colour board in the strategy and used as they appear there.

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01Futura

Headlines and titles. A geometric face for a firm that sells clarity.

  • H1 48Transform Your Workplace
  • H2 32Empowering your organization through culture
  • H3 24One Culture at a Time
Try it: retype this line in the headline face
Type your team here

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02Roboto

Body text and detail. Plain, legible, made for screens.

  • Body 16Culture consultancy for organisations that want the way they work to be a reason people stay.
  • Small 13Workshops, surveys, leadership coaching, culture audits.
  • Label 11BOOK A CONSULTATION
Try it: retype this line in the text face
Type a workshop title here

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03Open Sans Italic

Subheadings, quotes and emphasis.

  • Quote 22Where culture thrives, success follows.
The system, live: one primary, the gradient it runs into, three supporting colours, and the three faces at the sizes they are used. Retype the line to see the headline face work.

Deliverables

What we shipped.

  • Positioning statementA single, agreed answer to what the firm does and why it matters.
  • Brand identity systemA visual identity built to carry the positioning across every consultant's material.
  • Messaging guidelinesGuidance for how consultants talk about the firm in pitches and conversation.
  • Identity application toolkitTemplates and assets consultants can use without reinventing the message each time.
The People Interface website on a desktop monitorThe website
Six People Interface social media graphicsThe social set
A lit People Interface poster in a passageOut of home
Three framed People Interface posters on a concrete wallThe posters
A hardback book in Rich Pink: Empowering Your WorkforceThe book
A stack of People Interface business cards in Rich PinkThe cards
The People Interface brand graphic: Empower Your Organization, Global Reach 75 percent, Transforming Workplaces, two smiling professionals on pink, blue and white panels.The brand graphic
The identity on every screen and surface it was built for: the site, the social set, out of home, the poster wall, the book, the cards.

What changed

The position at handover.

  1. Consultants now describe the firm the same way in a pitch, on LinkedIn, or in the room.
  2. Leadership has one shared answer to point to instead of several personal versions.
  3. The firm presents as a single, coherent voice rather than a collection of individual consultants.
A People Interface billboard at street scale: Transform Your Workplace, with a portrait and the wordmark.

People Interface

One firm, one voice, on every surface.

The identity taken outside the deck, to billboard scale. The same pink, the same voice, still recognisably People Interface.

In the client’s words

Testimonial

Aminah Moore

“We are thrilled with the Brand Strategy. It truly captures the essence of People Interface.”

Aminah Moore, CEO, People Interface