JOBY AVIATION REBRAND
BRANDING FOR JOBY AVIATION
Joby Aviation is a Californian venture-backed aerospace company, developing an electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft that it intends to operate as an air taxi service. Joby Aviation is headquartered in Santa Cruz, California, and has disclosed offices in San Carlos, California; Marina, California; and Munich, Germany.
The goal of this project is to create a brand identity for Joby, which is a new industry in the future transportation market.
Brand key words : Minimalism, Simplicity, Comfortable, Clear, Futuristic, Speedy, Dynamic
Instructor - Gerardo Herrera
Branding - Jiani Hong
KEY ATTRIBUTES
TYPOGRAPHY
The Uniwars typeface has small contrast on type width, it looks simple and futuristic. The logotype used in logo has been changed in the sharp angles, to make it match to the logo mark, which has the sense of air flow, all the sharp angles on the type are made in mild, smooth way.
LOGO MARK
In order to renew people's impressions to Joby Aviation and make the brand more attractive to the population, the logo needs to convey the brand concept to the people, and show people how would they lives change after the launch of Joby aircraft, which are simple, convenient fluent traffic experience, futuristic, epochal symbol. The overall shape refers to the radian of the aircraft nose, the curvature of the upper part of the whole also shows the sense of air flow. At the bottom the stroke goes from wide to narrow which shows the sense of speed. these are not just a symbol of a airplane, but let people see it's brand features.
LOGO MARK INSPIRATION
LOGO TYPE
The oringinal typeface is uniwars, I added round and smooth elements into each 90 degrees corners of the type to make it looks more fluent and match with the comfortable, smooth, sense of dynamic brand concept and also the curve of the logo.
LOGO LOCK-UP CLEAR SPACE
COLOR PALETTE
The concept is about simple and convenient, so the color selecting, would be a comfortable color palette, I choose grey, dark grey and beige to be in a main color range. Red symbolizes the pioneer spirit of Joby Aviation and also have a contrast on the tint color tone.