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Two white cards lean against a red wall on a blue surface. Each card features a red diamond border and the word “Aloft” printed twice. One card shows a red illustration of a city skyline, while the other shows a blue illustration of a drone.

Michal Markiewicz’s smart, creative identity for a Polish drone filming company

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Date
3 December 2015

Slick identities for cool, luxurious products are one thing, but creating branding for rather more technical, obscure brands is arguably a trickier task. That’s why we were so impressed with designer Michal Markiewicz’s identity for Aloft, an aerial drone filming company in Poland.

The company uses advanced technologies to produce footage for television and commercials so the identity needed to be instantly understood and recognisable. Placing the company’s name within a grid of crosses that act like propellers, the logo has moving iterations to enhance the kinetic aesthetic. The red, outlined square feels like a frame for a figurative drone to hone in on and an array of simply illustrated cards explain the various types of filming the company can do. Using inoffensive hues of blue and orange, it’s a clean and sharp identity from the Polish designer.

A brand identity sheet for “Aloft” showing various logo iterations. The wordmark appears in black, blue and red, alongside a grid-based symbol containing the letters “A”, “L”, “O”, “F” and “T”.
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Michal Markiewicz: Aloft

A collection of business cards for “Aloft” in blue and red on a white background. Some cards feature a bold “ALOFT” wordmark, while others show a geometric logo where the letters are arranged in a diamond shape.
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Michal Markiewicz: Aloft

Six circular badges arranged in two rows of three. Each badge features a diamond shape containing the letters and symbols “A X L X O X F X T”. The top row shows the design in red, blue and red on white, blue and red backgrounds. The bottom row features the same colours but with the diamond shape broken by diagonal lines.
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Michal Markiewicz: Aloft

Several small cards in red, white and blue are scattered across a blue background. The cards feature technical illustrations and the word “ALOFT”.
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Michal Markiewicz: Aloft

Six illustrated cards arranged in two rows of three. Each card features a blue technical drawing of a drone or a city layout set against a red and white geometric background with the word “ALOFT” printed at the top and bottom.
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Michal Markiewicz: Aloft

A grid of six service icons in red and blue line art, each paired with a Polish heading and descriptive text. The icons include a city skyline, a skull and crossbones, a drone, a photo gallery, a movie camera, and a drone inside a room.
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Michal Markiewicz: Aloft

A blue typographic logo set within a red diamond frame. The letters and symbols are arranged in a grid reading “A X L”, “X O X”, and “F X T”.
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Michal Markiewicz: Aloft

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About the Author

Rebecca Fulleylove

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Rebecca Fulleylove is a freelance writer and editor specialising in art, design and culture. She is also senior writer at Creative Review, having previously worked at Elephant, Google Arts & Culture, and It’s Nice That.

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