Brand Strategy

Brand Strategy

Naming

Naming

Identity Design

Identity Design

IOTA, Building the brand infrastructure for a new kind of asset manager

Year

2022

Client

IGIS asset management

Timeframe

8 months

As

Lipponcott Team

BRIEF

IGIS Asset Management had ambitions that outgrew its identity as a real estate fund operator. The goal was to evolve into a space business — one that creates and operates distinctive destinations, not merely manages assets on behalf of investors. To make that shift credible, the brand needed to reflect the new direction. The question wasn't simply what to call a building. It was how to build a brand architecture capable of holding an entire portfolio of spatial experiences: defining what IGIS-ness means in physical form, and giving future spaces a coherent identity to build from.

IGIS Asset Management had ambitions that outgrew its identity as a real estate fund operator. The goal was to evolve into a space business — one that creates and operates distinctive destinations, not merely manages assets on behalf of investors. To make that shift credible, the brand needed to reflect the new direction. The question wasn't simply what to call a building. It was how to build a brand architecture capable of holding an entire portfolio of spatial experiences: defining what IGIS-ness means in physical form, and giving future spaces a coherent identity to build from.

SOLUTION

The work covered the full span of brand foundation — brand architecture strategy, brand platform, visual and verbal persona, naming, space identity direction, and visual identity design including the logo. The result was a spatial brand system built to serve as the governing identity for IGIS's space business: precise enough to ensure consistency across assets, and open enough to grow with the portfolio over time.

MY ROLE

Completed as Brand Strategist at Lippincott Seoul

Project delivered. Design system and application assets remain confidential pending implementation.


  • Brand platform: positioning, narrative, and brand concept

  • Brand architecture strategy: defining the structural approach

  • Brand platform: articulating IGIS-ness as the foundation

  • Visual and verbal persona development

  • Naming

  • Space identity direction


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