Elsevier Clinical Key. A data-driven, expressive branding toolkit. • Patrik Hübner - Generative Design and Creative Coding for brands

Input → Big data

Output → Branding , Dynamic Identity , Interactive experience

Elsevier Clinical Key. A data-driven, expressive branding toolkit. A dynamic visual system that creates unique, adaptive and reactive brand expressions based on big data as well as human interaction.

Together with agency Edenspiekerman Amsterdam I developed an expressive visual system for the medical information company Elsevier using Generative Design approaches, Creative Coding, big data and an interactive, web-based GUI to control it all. The system is capable of outputting infinite on-brand marketing collateral while being adaptive of the product and use-case. The branding toolkit is capable of both autonomously creating visual expressions of data and can also react to a user’s personals input.

Client

Elsevier

Agency

Edenspiekerman

My roles

Concept Design Programming

Formats

Interactive branding toolkit Dynamic brand assets for digital & print Interactive web-experience

By using generative design-approaches and focusing more on data-driven design we were able to execute a completely new vision for the client.
A dynamic visual system that creates unique, adaptive and reactive brand expressions based on big data as well as human interaction.

The brief started with two possible directions: Either, to create stories and interactive designs that center around people and how they can experience and possibly even influence the brand’s story. Or, stories and visual forms of output which are propelled by data that is at the core of the company – to illuminate new aspects of it both visually and contextually.
A dynamic visual system that creates unique, adaptive and reactive brand expressions based on big data as well as human interaction.

The project focuses on storytelling aspects that center around Elsevier’s product-data and services and on how the users interact with this data and shapes their individual version of it through time.
We ended up not just creating one design system for a specific product of Elsevier but rather creating a whole range of design systems that are visually able to express the larger narrative of the brand.

I created a web-based, interactive, dynamic and flexible branding toolkit to quickly prototype how the brand identity would react to data and interactivity.
This allowed the team to explore the design space, discover completely new stories and fine-tune both the visual end result and the experience for the end-user.

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One example of the multiple web-based branding prototypes. Each were tailor made to the product’s story, data and content – yet are connected by a common brand aesthetic and visual style.

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Elsevier Clinical Key. A data-driven, expressive branding toolkit. A dynamic visual system that creates unique, adaptive and reactive brand expressions based on big data as well as human interaction.

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Generative Design
Innovative storytelling and meaningful connections for brands and agencies

Creative Coding
Code-based explorations of visual systems for future brand- and interaction-design applications

Elsevier Clinical Key. A data-driven, expressive branding toolkit. A dynamic visual system that creates unique, adaptive and reactive brand expressions based on big data as well as human interaction.

Want to learn more about the process of this project?

Generative Design Innovative storytelling and meaningful connections for brands and agencies

Creative Coding Code-based explorations of visual systems for future brand- and interaction-design applications

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Innovative storytelling and meaningful connections for brands and agencies

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Code-based explorations of visual systems for future brand- and interaction-design applications