Forskningsradet identity system overview grid

Summary

A single overview frame that lays out an entire identity as a masonry board: logo, glyph set, palette, typeface, posters, illustration, packaging, product, and photography in one view.

Visual description

Ten rounded rectangle tiles sit on a white ground in three columns of differing heights. Top left, a wide tile shows a white bracket like mark next to the wordmark set in a light sans, over a soft gradient of periwinkle, lime, and grey curved forms. Below it, a black tile holds a grid of roughly thirty white glyphs, all built from the same angular hook and curve fragments so they read as one constructed alphabet. Beside that, a narrow tile shows the palette as vertical stripes: greys, saturated periwinkle, lime, pale lilac, and a black bar set apart at the right. A tile below shows two framed posters leaning against a wall, one lime and grey, one periwinkle, both built from the same soft blob shapes. Next to it a light tile presents the typeface with the name Neue Montreal set large, followed by upper and lower case, numerals, and punctuation lines. The center column carries a lime tile with a flat vector illustration of a hooded figure in sunglasses writing in a notebook, and below it a photograph of a person from behind wearing a blue electrode cap. The right column stacks a clear plastic box with a printed label, a close up render of extruded blue, lime, and grey forms interlocking, and a laptop floating against blue sky showing a lime page.

Key takeaway

Presenting the whole system as one masonry board makes the connective tissue obvious: the same blob geometry appears in the logo backdrop, the posters, the 3D forms, and the web page. Setting the glyph experiment in black gives the wildest part of the system its own room without letting it dominate the palette.

Reuse notes

A strong template for a case study hero or a portfolio thumbnail that has to summarize a large identity in one image. It needs at least eight finished assets to fill the grid convincingly, and tiles must be varied in type, since three photographs in a row would flatten it. Also useful as a reference for pairing a lime accent with periwinkle against neutral greys.