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Luxury joinery · corporate brand · 2020

Obulent

Obulent is a luxury joinery company, making bespoke kitchens, wardrobes, doors, windows and bathrooms for UK developers, architects and designers. We built the brand: identity, packaging, brochure and website.

Client
Obulent
Location
United Kingdom
Scheme
Luxury joinery — corporate brand identity
Year
2020
Obulent brochure bound in navy cloth with the logotype and the words LUXURY JOINERY foiled in gold — brand identity by HDEY
The brochure — navy cloth, gold foil, and the two words that do the positioning

What we delivered

  • Brand identity
  • Logo & logomark
  • Packaging
  • Brochure design
  • Website design

The project

Obulent designs, makes and installs bespoke kitchens, wardrobes, doors, windows, bathrooms and special-project cabinetry for developers, architects and designers across the UK.

Lean too far towards value and the specifiers stop reading. Lean too far towards luxury and you contradict the offer. We built the brand around the craft, because that — not the price — is what a specifier is buying.

The identity

The logotype sets OBULENT in a fine, widely tracked serif with a macron over the O, and LUXURY JOINERY beneath it in small caps. The macron becomes the logomark on its own: a circle and a bar, which is all that is needed on a box lid or a spine.

Deep navy and gold, on uncoated stock and cloth binding. It is a restrained system that signals care rather than expense — the same argument the company makes about its work.

Obulent business cards in navy with the gold logotype and Luxury Joinery, and a white reverse with contact details — brand identity by HDEY
Business cards — navy and gold, one side each
Obulent sample boxes in near-black with the gold logomark on the lid and the logotype on the side — packaging design by HDEY
Packaging — the macron, used as the mark

The brochure

The brochure opens on What We Do, set against black-and-white photography of the workshop — furniture made by highly skilled craftsmen, with attention to detail, in materials of enduring quality — then moves through the ranges.

A Pricing and Specification section puts the commercial conversation in the brochure, so a specifier can work from the document itself.

Obulent brochure open at the What We Do spread with black and white workshop photography, print design by HDEY
‘What we do’ — the workshop, in black and white
Obulent brochure open at the Modern spread showing blue shaker cabinetry and a modular kitchen, print design by HDEY
‘Modern’ — the range, shown rather than listed
Obulent brochure open at the Pricing and Specification spread facing a navy shaker kitchen with brass detailing, print design by HDEY
‘Pricing & Specification’ — the commercial conversation, in the brochure

The website

The site is organised the way a specifier thinks: bespoke interiors broken into kitchens, wardrobes, doors, windows, bathrooms and special projects, each with what it covers and what it is made from.

The homepage leads on the outcome rather than the product — interiors with a wow factor, supporting UK developers and architects — and states the balance the business runs on: unique design and quality, set against the sales strategy the developer is working to.

Obulent website shown on tablet and desktop, with the Bespoke Interiors section listing kitchens, wardrobes, doors, windows, bathrooms and special projects — web design by HDEY
Website — organised the way a specifier reads

This project was delivered under the Ademchic brand.

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