## Connecting Business Initiative (CBI) Brand refresh

The Connecting Business Initiative brings together businesses, governments, and humanitarian organisations before, during, and after disasters. After almost ten years, the existing identity had run its course a new one was needed that felt independent, confident, and collaborative, rather than another UN programme. A single letter C became the building block for the entire mark, reflected and repeated to create the C & B while forming the first link in a chain. Two blues from OCHA and UNDP were retained, complemented by a distinctive turquoise, and the curve of the C grew into a wider design language framing photography and content throughout the brand. This is an ongoing project, with work currently in progress across a range of deliverables including a report, event materials, roll-up banners, website, and brand identity, as well as posters and hoarding graphics for construction site and building work publicity.

CBI Monogram Exploration

A shortlist of logo directions explored during the development of the CBI identity. The brief focused on connecting the C and B, with the I considered secondary to the core idea of connecting business. Directions ranged from interlocking letterforms and mirrored monograms to more abstract concepts: a dandelion whose seeds, once scattered, represent the dissemination of aid and information, leaving behind either the letter C or the intact form depending on the moment. A further strand explored a binary on/off logic, contrasting inaction with the moment of receiving and acting on information. Across all directions the throughline was connection, tested in as many forms, weights, and configurations as possible before arriving at the final mark.

  • Client

    Connecting Business Innovation

  • Year

    2026

  • Roles

    Directeur Artistique, Graphiste, Designer de Marque

  • Agency

    Deletec

  • Team

    Ian Wrigglesworth, Mariano Sanz

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Les Bordes Estate, The British School in the Netherlands, Connecting Business Initiative, SEforALL, Happets, Fundación Biodiversidad, PASTRES, Grupo Planeta

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