onmo
Making the logo groove
Using animation to imbue sound, energy, and personality into a logo.
Team
Sam Becker (Creative Director)
Karen Yau (Design Director)
Jacob Lindell (Designer)
Responsibilities
Animation
Design concepting
Opening note
ONMO is a "sound services" brand, allowing users to customize ringtones and discover music. As part of their move from a white-label B2B brand to a consumer-facing D2C brand, we developed a logo and visual identity that was energetic, vibrant, and embodied sound. My main contribution to the project was figuring out how it moves and reacts to music.
(I didn't want to autoplay this video with sound, but I recommend it. At least for a loop or two. No pressure.)
At some point this will (hopefully) be done with an algorithim…
…but I had to animate frame by frame. I used After Effect's Audio Spectrum tool to outline how a piece of music would effect the "bars," and then customized each frame in Adobe Illustrator.
Genre test
Even when stripped of color, imagery, and context, the logo is able to communicate the feeling of different sounds, styles, and genres. It can embody sophisticated jazz just as well as loud indie rock.