A musician caught mid-performance in purple, pink and aqua light, blurred with movement

Ocean Floor Music

Things we did
Branding Sub-brands Campaign artwork Motion storyboard Investor graphics Event design
Client
Ocean Floor Music
Year
2022

Ocean Floor Music is a music platform for artists and fans, from a digital marketplace to live shows in the metaverse. We gave it one bold identity, a family of sub-brands and a campaign that feels like a night out.

A DJ with headphones on, washed in green and aqua light
A drummer mid-beat in red and pink light, sticks blurred with movement

The challenge

Ocean Floor Music set out to give musicians new ways to create, earn and reach fans: a marketplace for digital collectables, an app for making music together in real time, and live shows in the metaverse. With that many parts and investors to win over, it needed one brand that held it all together.

What we did

We built the identity around a single tall O and the line create. connect. thrive. The O carries every platform, from Marketplace to Metaverse, and a portrait series of musicians, blurred with movement and washed in the brand colours, gives it the energy of a live show.

Ocean Floor Music logo
Ocean Floor Music emblem
Ocean Floor Music logo, alternate version
Ocean Floor Music logo, alternate version
Ocean Floor Music logomark
Ocean Floor Music logomark
Ocean Floor Music logomark
  • Deep Purple#431575
    RGB 67/21/117
  • Electric Blue#1630F4
    RGB 22/48/244
  • Violet#812F9A
    RGB 129/47/154
  • Aqua#82F9FC
    RGB 130/249/252
  • Hot Pink#F069BD
    RGB 240/105/189
  • Amber#F4AA47
    RGB 244/170/71

Headlines

Manuka Black specimen: weights and character set

Manuka Black

Black, tall and condensed

Body text

Founders Grotesk specimen: weights and character set

Founders Grotesk

Regular and Semibold, with italics

One O

A single tall, rounded O carries the brand, drawn in an electric blue to aqua gradient. Deep purple, blue, violet and aqua make the base palette, with pink, orange and yellow as accents. Manuka Black gives headlines a tall, condensed punch, and Founders Grotesk keeps the body text clean and easy to read.

Ocean Floor brand graphics: the logo, buttons, menus and investor charts on deep purple
O Marketplace logo, white on deep purple
O Borderless logo, white on electric blue
O Metaverse logo, white on violet
O Crowd logo, white on coral pink
O Fanwall logo, white on hot pink
O Keys logo, white on black

One O, every platform

Each part of the platform takes the O with its own name beside it: Marketplace, Borderless, Metaverse, Crowd, Fanwall and Keys. The same system ran through the website, investor presentations and social, with bold numbers and simple charts in the brand colours.

The gradient O beside create. connect. thrive. on deep purple, the last frame of the website animation
Storyboard frame 1: a wave of white particles beside the word Create
Storyboard frame 2: a performer inside the particle wave, with a menu of Resonate, Play, Connect, Rhythm, Create
Storyboard frame 3: create, connect, thrive set in tall, thin type over a wireframe
Storyboard frame 4: two rings of light overlapping in pink and aqua
Storyboard frame 5: particles gathering into a curved ribbon
Storyboard frame 6: the ribbon of light turning in aqua
Storyboard frame 7: the ribbon closing into a loop
Storyboard frame 8: the loop settling into the O

Website animation

We storyboarded the website’s opening animation: a wave of particles that pulses with music, then folds into a ribbon of light and settles into the O beside create. connect. thrive.

Campaign artwork: a DJ in green and aqua light with the Ocean Floor Music logo
Campaign artwork: a drummer in red light with the Ocean Floor Music logo
Campaign artwork: a bassist in purple and pink light with the Ocean Floor Music logo
Campaign artwork: a rapper in pink light with the Ocean Floor Music logo
Campaign artwork: a saxophonist in blue and pink light with the Ocean Floor Music logo
Campaign artwork: a producer in blue light with the Ocean Floor Music logo

Campaign artwork

A portrait series of musicians, from a DJ and a drummer to a bassist and a saxophonist, each blurred with movement and washed in one of the brand colours. The white O sits in the corner of every one, so the campaign reads as one family across posters, screens and social.

O Marketplace on a laptop and phone: collect a piece of music future
The O Borderless app on two phones, linked by a sound wave
O Metaverse: a performer on a virtual stage with Perth and London signs
Event passes on phones: VIP and AAA, each with the O over a musician
Event passes on phones: Guest and AAA, each with the O over a musician
The gold $OFM coin, stamped with the O and create, connect, thrive

Launch

At launch the brand ran across the platforms themselves: the Marketplace on desktop and phone, the Borderless app for making music together in real time, and a Metaverse stage linking Perth and London. Event passes and the $OFM coin carried the same O.

The result

Ocean Floor Music launched with a brand as bold as the music it was built for. One O and one palette carried every platform, event pass and pitch, and the Marketplace went live at NFT Fest Australia on 22 November 2022 with OSHI Gallery.

One O for every stage, from the marketplace to the metaverse.