Brand and visual identity created for private equity and asset management business, Cape Town.
Sygnia Asset Management is a private firm based in Cape Town that offers investment products to institutional and private clients.
Firedog were originally commissioned to originate a brand born out of South Africa yet created to be associated with European and North American markets. Sygnia wanted a brand that not only demonstrated their analytical methodologies, but delivered an elegant identity that would be confident on the world stage. Firedog in Cape Town continues to routinely deliver for Sygnia, looking after the majority of design and communications across brand, campaign and digital platforms.
Back in 2003, Firedog produced a unique and visually appealing identity that exemplifies Sygnia’s core message, ‘The Sum of All Things’. In a highly competitive market, the newly formed Sygnia needed to wow its clients and threaten its competitors. For this reason, Firedog chose to use x-ray photography to support the organic yet highly calculated aspect of the fund business. Firedog used visually delicate natural objects such as shells and flowers to be traversed by a set of mathematical equals lines. Each element of the design is symbolic. Not only is it implied that Sygnia conforms to the regimental black and white nature of the financial industry, it is also suggested that they move beyond this, into full colour – a pun on several other South African Investment Banks. Sygnia goes beyond the grey.
Since Firedog having created the brand in 2003, the Sygnia business has gone from strength to strength with the development of proprietary system products such as Platinum and Alchemy, alongside a well-developed and diverse investment offering. We are very proud of this long-standing relationship with one of Africa’s greatest challenger brands.
