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“Get informed. Get outraged. Get inspired. Get active.”
—Anita Roddick
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Former Look and History The Body Shop’s core identity
The Body Shop has a distinguished round
is to use business as a force of good.
logo. The open circle reflects the softness and
The fight for human rights, animal
friendliness of the brand. In addition, the
rights resource preservation
round logo hugs around the wordmark, which
and self-acceptance is integrated
reflects the protective, attentive aspect of
in all products and campaigns.
the brand. The shape also refers to the Earth, which is one of the focuses of the brand. The round shape is used instead of the letter “O” when the wordmark is used. The color of the logo reflects the core values of the brand: natural, eco-friendly, balanced, and caring.
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Inspiring A positive and powerful perspective
Conscientious Stand for sustainable development
Healthy Vibrant and holistic beauty
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Initial Sketches Phase One Camp 01 | Inspiring A positive and powerful perspective
For this camp, we started with the symbols of people, hands or sun and combine with nature to create a caring and positive looking feel.
Some of the elements have more potential to be explored more. The curvy shape and the leaf give a soft and organic feeling.
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Initial Sketches Phase One Camp 02 | Conscientious Stand for sustainable development
For this camp, we focused on nature and environmental care. Curvilinear shapes and hands shelter nature in the form of a tree or leaf.
These highlighted symbols focus on the goal of sustainability. To capture the feeling of protection, we considered whether the circular or triangular outline in the logo had the potential to work on.
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Initial Sketches Phase One Camp 03 | Healthy Vibrant and holistic beauty
For this camp, we focused on the shape of leaves both in literal or abstract ways. To convey the idea of beauty, we focused on curvilinear shapes.
These highlighted symbols are more abstract but also convey the feeling of what we want to show to the audience.
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Initial Sketches Phase Two Conscientious Direction
Based on the chosen symbol from the conscientious camp, we explored more symbol with triangular structure.
Unlike the previous phase, in which the triangular shape looked more structured, we created more triangular shapes that were more soft and curvy.
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Initial Sketches Phase Two Healthy Direction
Based on the chosen symbol from the healthy camp, we explored more leaf symbols.
These chosen symbols keep the abstract look but also resemble the shape of a leaf.
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Keyword Redefinition After exploring two directions out of the three in phase two, we decided to combine two main core values. “Conscientious” and “Healthy” become “Holistic” to reinterpret our focus concisely for further logo exploration.
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Initial Sketches Phase Three Holistic Direction Following this new direction, we sketched more variations of these two logos. They combine the circle, leaf and curvilinear shapes.
These highlighted symbols are what we attempted to render a digital formal.
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Australian Organic
Before turning the logo sketches into digital versions, we researched existing brands for similar logos. In order to make our logo more sophisticated, we made sure that our logo is distinguishable from other brands. The logos that we searched for were based on graphic elements that use similar shapes. Most of them look organic with the symbol of a leaf or curvy shapes.
organic skin care
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Envato
promote and support certified
Internet, Web Design,
organic businesses
Web Development
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Organic Living
Brand marketing and
manufacturer and distributor
brand management
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Koia Plant-Based Protein Drinks
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produces organic herbal and
Simple Truth organic food
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provides non-GMO, non-hybrid,
Credit Valley conservation authorities
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Carhartt U.S.-based apparel company
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Semper Florens study association of plants science, plant biotechnology and organic agriculture
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Cultivating organic farm
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Digital Sketches Based on phase 3 initial sketches, we created 10 digital roughs.
The highlighted symbols are more simple and fit to our brand.
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Digital Refinement Based on the digital sketches we had, we tried to make these logos look more systematic. We used golden ratio circles to create these logos. They looked more professional and structured than before, but not refined fully in some details.
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Color Exploration We explored different colors on these three logos to get a feeling for the colors we chose to fit the verve of the brand. The colors we chose are earth tones, which give an organic feel and are close to nature.
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Final Direction After the refinement of three digital logos, we chose this logo as our final direction. The leaf represents our care of nature. The curvilinear shape provides a soft and organic feeling. To make our logo look more smooth, we figured out how to use the same sized circle to create a basic structure by doing more sketches.
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Logo Assembly The Body Shop logo is composed of the symbol, which is an organic shape of leaves, and the wordmark, which is the brand name in all caps.
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Logo Anatomy The Body Shop logo is built with circles of the same diameter. The width and height of the symbol are in particular proportion. This has the advantage that it can be applied precisely in any circumstance.
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Logo Assembly A signature consists of two components: the symbol and the logotype.
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Clear Space For ultimate visibility and impact, it’s important to retain a designated ‘clear space’ around the signature.
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Incorrect Usage An important factor in creating and maintaining a visual identity is the consistent presentation of the identity elements.
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The Visual Standards Guide We have journeyed through the process of creating our new logo in The Visual Development Guide. In the next guideline, The Visual Standards Guide, we will introduce the overall visual system and the new extensions of The Body Shop.
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Colophon This book is a noncommercial project for educational proposes and is not intended to represent The Body Shop brand. Designer Christine Wang Class GR604 Nature Identity Instructor Hunter Wimmer Photography Unsplash.com, iStock Software Adobe Creative Cloud Typefaces Caecilia Tisa Sans Binding & Printing Blurb.com
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