These past few months, we have had the awesome privilege of working with Zachary Davison his incredible project, Kanon.org. Kanon is an extensive online library that organizes and curates all of the worlds best art and humanities. The project isn’t over, but here is a summary of the work we have done so far:

BRAND

The first thing to tackle was the logo mark for Kanon (still kind of working on it).  Zach wanted this brand to read beautiful, sophisticated, smart, democratic, and timeless. After a lot of exploration, we settled on the icon of a circle.  A circle represents the world, and the universality and eternal nature of knowledge. Further, the idea of the circle is that is would comment on the fluidity and changing power of knowledge and that the color would be forever shifting and changing.

Website and Library

The ecxiting challenge with the website (or the tool) is that we wanted the focus of the site to be on THE WORKS. This is the primary reason that we chose black. We wanted the website to just almost be invisible in the background so that you could just focus.

Feedback

There are a lot of challenges with a project as big as this one. But we are very happy about the positive feedback we have gotten so far:

More to come.