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Bold black typographic forms command the visual field in Marko Stanojevic's What Next Brand Identity, where two stacked words rendered in a robust sans-serif typeface establish an assertive geometric…

What Next Brand Identity by Marko Stanojevic is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2025 Silver A' Design Award in Graphics, Illustration and Visual Communication Design Competition Category.


SilverGraphic· 2025

What Next Brand Identity

by Marko Stanojevic

Client: Zero Bureau

Silver A' Design Award Winner in Graphic Category

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The Design

About What Next Brand Identity

Final visual outcome is reached by taking a symbol and turning it into a question mark by placing it on a smaller square below (an extracted 1/4 piece of a big square above it) and putting it on a tipping point while remaining in balance, creating a visual sensation of tension with a minimal rearrangement of elements. What Next logo, as well as the name, are in a way an oxymoron, a question and an answer both at once, creating friction. On its own, logo-sign is a simple, deliberate imperfection and a straight-forward communication vessel, striving to create a lot with little effort invested.

The Recognition

About the Silver A' Design Award

What Next Brand Identity is a Silver A' Design Award winner, an extraordinarily prestigious recognition granted to top-of-the-line, gorgeous, and impressive designs. Silver winners are tremendously brilliant and exceedingly creative works that illustrate the outstanding expertise, talent, and acuity of their designers. What Next Brand Identity is expected to be a wonderful, showpiece work that is remarkably professional and profoundly innovative. This Silver A' Design Award-winning design is a highly notable, admired invention that benefits and advances the boundaries of art, science, design, and technology. What Next Brand Identity is a vastly envied creation that evokes desires, introduces positive feelings, and sparks amazement and wonderment.

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Strategic Brand Identity and Visual Communication Design

We craft distinctive brand identities that balance clever thinking with beautiful execution. With over 20 years of cross-disciplinary expertise, we transform business concepts into memorable visual narratives. Our approach merges strategic insight with artistic innovation, creating brands that resonate emotionally while meeting technical requirements.

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Behind the Design

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Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.

Unique Properties
Logo takes a symbol > and turns it into a question mark by extracting a piece of a big square and putting it rotated on a tipping point of a remaining smaller square below but remaining in balance, producing a new meaning and creating a visual sensation of tension with a minimal rearrangement of elements.
Dimensions & Packaging
Technically, it is easily producible, makeable, buildable, applicable across various physical or digital forms.
Tags
Logo Design, Branding Design, Visual Identity, Visual Communication, Graphic Design
Production Technology
It is built to meet technical requirements, be an appropriate but intriguing metaphor that is easy to decode and have a simple, clever-twist in execution, hopefully making it distinguishable, relatable, and memorable. As importantly, it is to be a fundamental visual asset generator for the brand, convenient and highly triggering for further seamless creation of various branding assets like bespoke stationary, signage, advertising, memento objects, and so on. It is pushing subtly towards art by enabling playful execution across platforms and expanding the initial brand values further.
Design Challenge
Breathing life into a business consultancy and giving it an emotional layer.
Research
Analysis of peer institutions and companies.
Inspiration
What Next logo is in a way an oxymoron. In keeping with the company name, it is a Question and an Answer depending on which point of view is optimal for the given context, which creates friction. On its own, without the type, the logomark is a simple, deliberate imperfection and a straightforward communication vessel for the company it is representing, in a sense striving to create a lot with little effort and action invested.
Project Duration
Designed in late 2023.
Team Members
Marko Stanojevic
Image Credits
Images designed by Marko Stanojevic, executed/rendered by Marko Stanojevic and Quang Tam.

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