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Design Category
Brand and identity systems design, 1998
Design firm
Ph.D. (Santa Monica, California)
Collection
(1999) Communication Graphics: 20
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This particular commercials production company had struggled to come up with a name that would help to reposition an existing company, Harmony Pictures, and reveal the new direction in which it was headed. Chemistry—and all that the word suggests—was chosen. The graphic identity needed to be stylish, charming, and open ended. In remembering what we thought was magical about the name, we came upon the notion of evoking the simplest, most wonderful chemistry experiment: the litmus test.