Soubriet Byrne & Associates
Brand refresh for SBA, a local NYC agency with a focus on finance and travel industries.
Spearheaded creation of a new illustration style and library, for use in the agency's email blasts, website, and brand new cocktail library.
Skills
Brand Identity
Illustration
Email Design
Team
CD: Philip Byrne
CD: Carmen Soubriet
AD: Blàthnaid Conroy
Designer: Niamh Murphy
Monthly Newsletter
The illustration style began development for use in the agency's monthly email blast. I would create headers and graphics for use in each newsletter, using the agency's color palette and sticking to the theme of the month
Some samples of newsletter illustrations for emails themed around: doses of optimism, looking forward to the future, travel, the holidays, and our weekly "bubbles" happy hour.
Featured Cocktail
Each newsletter also featured an "agency's pick" drink of the month, as part of an invite to our Friday afternoon Google Hangout happy hour.
Cocktail Library
The monthly cocktail was a popular feature, and eventually we decided to expand it from a part of our newsletter to a full-blown library of featured drinks.
Explore the library here
I built out a matching asset library for our use, creating a suite of glass shapes, garnishes, straws, and bubbles to make future cocktail illustrations easier and ensure consistency regardless of who is making them.
Case Studies
After the cocktail library, the illustration use expanded onto our website. Using our existing color palette with a new set of complementary accent colors and the existing rounded linear style, I created a new suite of illustrations to make thumbnails for our case studies.
They offer a hint of what the case study focuses on, while giving a more editorial feel that lets visitors to the site know these pages will be more in-depth than our work pages.
