Music schoolIdentity
An H you
can hear.
00The project
- Name
- Harrington Instrumental Academy
- Sector
- Music education
- Year
- 2023
- Typeface
- Poppins
Harrington Instrumental Academy is a 2023 studio design study for an imagined music school, made without a client. The designer drew its mark: seven round-ended shapes rising and falling like a sound wave, the two tallest joined into an H. The name sits beside it in Poppins. The identity is black and white and nothing else — no colour to lean on, only the rhythm of the wave.
- Waveform H mark
- Wordmark and lockup
- Black-and-white palette
01The mark
Seven shapes,
one letter.
Dots and bars of one width with round ends, set on one even pitch, climb from a dot to the H — two stems joined at the middle, the left one the longest line in the mark — and fall away again to two dots. The letter is the loudest moment of the sound.
02Lockup
Black and white,
nothing else.
The name is Poppins Medium in capitals: HARRINGTON tracked a little open, INSTRUMENTAL ACADEMY wider, so the two lines run to the same length. The mark also stands on its own, wherever space is small.
03Sizes
Loud or quiet,
still an H.
Every stroke shares one width and one pitch, so the rhythm survives when the mark shrinks: the dots stay round and the H stays legible down to 16 pixels. Five heights, drawn from the original paths.
- 160 px
- 96 px
- 56 px
- 32 px
- 16 px