Implementing the University of Oulu brand across different media and applications has been made as simple as possible.
These guidelines and examples should give a designer a good idea about implementing the brand effortlessly and successfully.
The brand is colorful
As the university’s faculties are diverse, so is the identity. Plenty of colors are used with bold backgrounds and graphics.
The brand is playful
The university isn’t afraid of showing a bit of northern quirkyness. The communication doesn’t need to be excessively official, or even should be, as this is just what about every other university is doing.
The brand is dignified and elegant
Still, the University can show it’s more discreet approach when needed. Subtle elegance is achieved by a restricted color palette of black and white, blue and silver.
From elegant to playful
There are many ways the university appears, acts and speaks. The brand identity aims to communicate this diversity in it’s manifestations. Not everything needs to look identical.
The logo lives
The logo is a living element of the identity. Its “tower" and "rays" elements embellishes plenty of applications and appears in unexpected places.