GEEK

Category
Branding
Client
Kosuke Katano
Year
2018

GEEK is a branding project for Kosuke Katano, a research scientist in biology at MIT Media Lab. He proclaims himself Wild Scientist and GEEK. I was asked to design his business card and started this project as personal branding to convey his unique personality.

Arranged GEEK business cards

DESIGN

The first step was to create an eye-catching symbol. I approached it from Kosuke’s initials, K.K. and designed the letter K by combining rectangles and hexagons. These shapes were chosen because they can represent a benzene ring and DNA helix when they are arranged regularly.<br><br>The next step was making a graphic and putting information into it. His previous business card was full of information and he asked me to inherit the style. It was challenging but I arranged it as a part of a DNA-inspired graphic and obtained both beauty and readability.

Business cards' picture
Design concept of GEEK
Name and infomation design of GEEK
GEEK logo and graphic

Project Info

Client
Kosuke Katano
Design
Richard Falcema
Printing by
Graphic Co. Ltd.
Printing Method
CMYK Offset
Paper
Vent Nouveau VG
Design Tool
Adobe Illustrator