Reinventing automation branding using humor

Reinventing automation branding using humor

To protect their innovation, differentiate from competitors & build trust in clients.

To protect their innovation, differentiate from competitors & build trust in clients.

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CLIENT TYPE

Industry automation company

PROJECT TYPE

brand strategy & identity development, website design

YEAR

2025

PROJECT ROLE

Product & visual designer

PROJECT CONTRIBUTION

Stakeholder analysis

Sitemap & wireframing

Information architecture

Website layout

Rapid prototyping

Branding & theme design

Design strategy

Content curation

Visual design & content creation

TOOLS

Figma

Gemini

Adobe Photoshop
Adobe Lightroom
Adobe Illustrator

Squarespace Website Builder

COLLABORATORS

Sanya Gupta,
Product & visual designer

We brought drama, story & suspense to a world of wires & steel.

We then extended it to their entire brand collaterals.

The result

A brand that uses secrecy as its competitive advantage - in protecting its innovation, & incentivizing clients.

Here's the backstory
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The client

BlackBox Factories is a new, agile player in industry automation - able to rethink what industry giants can’t.

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*BlackBox Factories [left] & their competitors [right]
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Their challenge

In a market where new ideas get snapped up fast, BlackBox had to keep its innovations under wraps - big competitors could out-execute them overnight.

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Stakeholder journey

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Investors

Build trust, prove capabilities, communicate clear vision & mission.

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Clients

Build trust, clarify work domain, clear tech specs, contact, product pricing.

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Job seekers

Build trust, showcase reach & impact, clarify work domain.

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BlackBox's team

Provide a narrative to better communicate & sell their capabilities.

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Brand essence

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Key differentiator

Fully integrated in-house team delivering complete, end-to-end solutions.

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Tone

Confident, cutting edge & reliable.

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Our chalenge

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Showcase vs secrecy

Had to ensure the website positioned the brand at par with competitors without exposing their innovations.

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Bias for numbers

Competitors flaunted impressive quantitative data while BlackBox, being new, had little to show.

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Validating potential

Had to establish trust with investors & collaborators despite limited scale & geopolitical bias.

Here's why we did what we did in 04 points

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Their colors
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Manufacturing realities

Colors had to work across anodizing, powder coating, spray painting, & digital printing - limiting us to the RAL palette.

Compliance

Machine surfaces must stay white to spot contaminants, & industry-standard warning colors were off-limits.

Competitor landscape

Whatever remained was already saturated with oranges, warm yellows, & PCB greens.

The colors we chose

A bold lime green - unseen in the category - cut through the noise & echoes the industry’s “green light = all good” signal, reinforcing BlackBox’s promise of smooth, reliable operation.

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Their brand logo & accent

We kept deliberately traditional & competitor-aligned - confident, neutral, & fit for every machine they produce.

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Our inspiration


The high-end fashion & art industry regularly communicates a sense of grandness & mystery to present a high-quality yet trustable brand image.

That is exactly what BlackBox Factories was looking for too.

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Their visual identity

We used humor & playful design not just for charm, but as a strategic veil - sparking curiosity, differentiating the brand, & hinting at the intelligence behind their IP without exposing it.

Here's how we applied this to their website in 04 points

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Gathering data

We poured over their previous website, pitch decks & their team members to understand their company better.

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Re-orgaizing information

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Developing the sitemap

We also developed their entire brand collaterals

Ensuring that during client visits, the environment itself communicated BlackBox’s precision & built trust through detail.

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