iDesign

Designer: Mackenzie Stratton
Creative Director: Whitney Hack-Williams
Programs: Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, & After Effects

iDesign specializes in instructional design, building online courses and degrees for institutions of higher education. When they decided to launch their social media presence, they knew they wanted to add to the current conversation in a meaningful way. So instead of talking about themselves, iDesign wanted to highlight important days, causes, and people as a way to engage their audience.

Their brand uses almost exclusively shades of blue, with occasional pops of yellow or photo-realistic colors. Real-life images are also sprinkled-in, which repeats the branding approach that many of their clients use. Here, I used illustration, custom typography, and animation to enrich and express their brand.

Woman relaxing in a hammock in the sky while reading a book
For National Read a Book Day
An illustration of Malala with her hand over her chest, looking over her shoulder. The portrait leaves out her facial features
For Malala Day
An all-blue post with the words "World Kindness Day" in the cetner. The word, "kindness" features a typographical tweaks and a blue-to-dark-blue gradient
an illustration of a silhouette of a brain is centered on the page with the phrase, "Thank you to all Teachers" in the center
A woman with purple + pink dyed hair smiles in a wheelchair. A blue equal sign with the word "equal" written on the top line slightly overlays her portrait
Two friends are smiling with their arms around one another. The portrait is a stylized illustration in which each person is depicted in shades of blue