Day of Design
← All workSambrow · 2020

Brow studioVisual identity

Blossom
into a new you.

The Sambrow symbol, rust
Sambrow signature, white: the curved symbol in its circle, the SAMBROW wordmark and BLOSSOM INTO A NEW YOU
After the 2020 rust poster: the symbol at full scale behind the signature

00The project

Client
Sambrow
Industry
Brow & beauty
Year
2020

Sambrow is a brow studio. In 2020 we gave it an identity that starts from a single curve: two strokes that make an S and the sweep of a brow, held in an open circle, above a fine, wide-spaced wordmark and the studio’s own line — Blossom into a new you. Three colours went with it, and from there it went onto cards, letterhead, posters and social posts.

  • Logo & signature
  • Colour palette
  • Business cards
  • Letterhead
  • Posters
  • Social media templates

01Identity

One curve,
read two ways.

Read it as a letter and it is an S; read it as a face and it is the arch of a brow. The ring breaks where the strokes pass through it, so the mark never looks stamped. The wordmark is a fine, high-contrast serif set wide; the line beneath it is a plain sans, so the two never compete.

Sambrow signature, rust: the curved symbol in its circle, the SAMBROW wordmark and BLOSSOM INTO A NEW YOU
Sambrow signature, bone: the curved symbol in its circle, the SAMBROW wordmark and BLOSSOM INTO A NEW YOU
Sambrow signature, black: the curved symbol in its circle, the SAMBROW wordmark and BLOSSOM INTO A NEW YOU
Sambrow signature, white: the curved symbol in its circle, the SAMBROW wordmark and BLOSSOM INTO A NEW YOU

The signature in rust, bone on Aegean, black and reversed, with the round and square badges

02Colour

Clay, sea
and salt.

The colour page of the VI set each colour beside a picture: rust beside wet clay, Aegean beside a sea inlet seen from the air, bone beside spilled salt. Rust gives the warmth, Aegean the depth, and bone is the quiet ground the other two stand on.

Rust#C26A4BC19 M67 Y76 K5Clay

Aegean#003731C89 M53 Y69 K59Sea

Bone#E9DACAC7 M13 Y19 K0Salt

The curved fields · re-drawn from the back of the 2020 letterhead

03Stationery

Small things,
set with care.

The letterhead keeps the signature small at the head and leaves the text room to breathe; its back is given over to the curved fields. The card is white on the front, with the symbol and wordmark side by side; Aegean on the back, with the signature centred. The names and details on the original sheets were placeholders, shown here as grey rules.

Letterhead · front
Letterhead · back
Business card · front and back · 3.5 × 2 in.

04Posters & social

Never underestimate
a well-designed brow.

The posters take their voice from the studio’s own line: “Never underestimate the transformational power of a pair of well-designed brows.” The VI hung three portrait sheets in a row — a photograph, the line, the symbol. The photograph was stock, so only the other two are re-set here; the social posts follow in the same colours.

Poster · bone
Poster · rust
The Sambrow symbol, rust

Blossom into a new you.

Client
Sambrow
Year
2020
Scope
Logo & signature · Colour palette · Business cards · Letterhead · Posters · Social media templates

The identity was designed by the studio in 2020; this page is built from the fifteen-page VI archived in August 2020 and its image exports. The symbol, wordmark and tagline are the original vector paths, recoloured only, and the three colour values are those written in the VI. The cards, letterhead, posters and social post are re-set for the web from the VI pages. The names, numbers and address on the original sheets were placeholders and appear here as grey rules; the stock photographs of models and treatments, and the packaging and storefront mockups, are not shown.