Brand & Visual Identity

Bank Workers Charity

Creating an impactful brand for a contemporary financial charity.

The Bank Workers Charity (formally bankers Benevolent Fund) was established in 1883 and is a London based organisation that exists to help current and former employees in the banking sector. The Firedog remit extended to brand identity, messaging, visual look and feel, marketing collateral, PPT and MS Office templates, website, tactical support and tactical reporting and communications design.

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Sector

/ Financial services / NGO & Third Sector

Topics

/ Bright / Corporate

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After changing the business name, BWC approached Firedog to create a fresh contemporary identity
The Bank Workers Charity brand mark is constructed purely out of circular shapes. The transparency and colour creates a modern yet approachable feel.
The identity extends the use of circular devices to carry either imagery, copy or little facts and figures.
Further graphic devices are formed by utilising the circular device and colour palette.
The supporting imagery suite is created from both stock and a series of actual case studies. The tone is confident and assured.
The primary and simple nature of the logo lends itself well to being easily reproduced across all media.
The colour palette with its primary blues and complementary warmer partners, ensures a clean and contemporary feel.
The simple, bright brand icon works well in special applications - Such as die cut materials.
The imagery is held within the circular branded devices, enabling a memorable yet clear visual language.
The digital application of the identity follows best practice in clear and concise communications.
The brand project wrapped up with an extensive set of brand guidelines.
The BWC impact report contains a rich variety of charts and graphs
The creation of simple to read graphics aids the legibility of BWC communications
The print communications have been designed with a loose grid format, which creates an overall impression of friendliness
We have produced a series of annual impact reports. These progressed from print into an online responsive edition. The print edition contained a unique series of stitched inserts of differing sizes
We wanted the printed impact report to reflect the hands on support of the charity - a good deal of the design was created by hand

The Bank Workers Charity brand mark is constructed purely out of circular shapes. The transparency and colour creates a modern yet approachable feel.

The Bankers Benevolent Fund, a financial charity, has been around for a number of decades, but not many people were aware of what they do.

With addressing and clarifying their values, offering and vision internally, they needed a fresh, exciting and dynamic new brand to communicate these externally. After changing their name to Bank Workers Charity, they approached Firedog to help them create a modern and distinctive identity to match.

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NGO & Third Sector

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The identity extends the use of circular devices to carry either imagery, copy or little facts and figures.
Further graphic devices are formed by utilising the circular device and colour palette.

The supporting imagery suite is created from both stock and a series of actual case studies. The tone is confident and assured.

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A new positioning was chosen which allowed us to capitalise on the play on words - in this case; From all angles.

Brand Discovery & Research

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A brand that is confident, distinctive, human and diverse.

Extensive research, brainstorming and discussions made it clear that the positive change occurring within BWC needed to be summed up in a brand that is confident, flexible, distinctive, relevant, human and diverse. This vivid new identity started off with the logo. We created a pure system where the icon letters were all based out of circle geometry. Taking our inspiration from BWCs key values, the overlapping circles representing collaboration and connectivity between people. This logic of transparency combined with a fresh and bright colour palette provides a mark that is both approachable and contemporary.

The primary and simple nature of the logo lends itself well to being easily reproduced across all media.

The colour palette with its primary blues and complementary warmer partners, ensures a clean and contemporary feel.
The simple, bright brand icon works well in special applications - Such as die cut materials.

We created unique graphic devices based on the overall circular motif.

Step two was the visual look-and-feel. The colourful, Impactful logo appears alongside confident, yet down-to-earth messaging, a distinctive type-face and optimistic, warm and engaging imagery. We also created unique graphic devices based on the circle motif. These hold text and imagery, supporting the brand and ensuring the identity becomes recognizable in its own right.

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Integrated Branding

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The imagery is held within the circular branded devices, enabling a memorable yet clear visual language.
The digital application of the identity follows best practice in clear and concise communications.

The brand project wrapped up with an extensive set of brand guidelines.

The BWC impact report contains a rich variety of charts and graphs

Firedog continues to work with the BWC on strategic design and implementation.

The BWC launched their new brand on in May 2011 and the response to this re-fresh has been fantastic. Firedog is extremely happy with the initial response and will continue to work with BWC on strategic design and implementation moving forward. We have also supported BWC through the creation of annual impact reports. The charity impact report is a campaign designed to communicate the impact that the charity has generated over the year. Like an annual report, this features numerical information in charts and graphs – as well as real life case studies.

The creation of simple to read graphics aids the legibility of BWC communications

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The clean layouts contain both the industrial and human sides to the corporate message.

Communications

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The print communications have been designed with a loose grid format, which creates an overall impression of friendliness
We have produced a series of annual impact reports. These progressed from print into an online responsive edition. The print edition contained a unique series of stitched inserts of differing sizes

We wanted the printed impact report to reflect the hands on support of the charity - a good deal of the design was created by hand

Brand & Visual Identity

Bank Workers Charity

Creating an impactful brand for a contemporary financial charity.

Expertise

Sector

Topics

The Bankers Benevolent Fund, a financial charity, has been around for a number of decades, but not many people were aware of what they do.

Sector Spotlight

NGO & Third Sector

Expertise Spotlight

Brand Discovery & Research

Expertise Spotlight

Integrated Branding

Expertise Spotlight

Communications

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The British Horseracing Authority (BHA)

Lloyd & Partners

Brand & Visual Identity

Bank Workers Charity

Creating an impactful brand for a contemporary financial charity.

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The Bankers Benevolent Fund, a financial charity, has been around for a number of decades, but not many people were aware of what they do.

Sector Spotlight

NGO & Third Sector

Expertise Spotlight

Brand Discovery & Research

Expertise Spotlight

Integrated Branding

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Communications

SOME MORE OF OUR RELATED WORK

Method Investments

The British Horseracing Authority (BHA)

Lloyd & Partners

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