Graphic Design

POD Pilates Logo

Designed the logo for POD Pilates, an early-stage health & fitness start-up, which provide a mobile app that generates personalised Pilates class plans and programs for Pilates instructors and home users, reducing planning time for instructors, and making Pilates more accessible to home users.

POD Pilates Logo — project presentation
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Overview

Project Outcome

Developed a simple, bold brand logo, delivering multiple high-quality output files to the client, including multiple colour configurations, file sizes, and file formats to fit a variety of use cases (i.e., mobile app icon, in-app branding, website branding, social media)

Project Information

Role
Freelance Graphic Designer
Team
Worked directly with the Founder
Focus
Graphic Design, Logo Design, Sketching & Prototyping
Tools
Adobe Illustrator, Canva
POD Pilates logo on a centred iPhone

Problem Statement

Create a simple, versatile identity for an early-stage Pilates app, communicating the brand’s values of accessibility and inclusivity across small app icons, websites and social media.

Design Requirements

  • Simple lettermark direction selected with the founder
  • Soft, rounded typography with a bold, approachable character
  • Legibility across app icons and larger digital applications
  • A constrained palette and adaptable colour configurations
  • Delivery in multiple sizes and file formats
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Concept Development

Understand Clients Needs

POD Pilates Logo — Sketch 2

Early logo designs and co-creation with client to enable option exploration and define logo requirements.

Test Resultclient desired simple lettermark style logo - wordmark, symbolic, and abstract alternatives were not further developed

Develop Initial Prototypes

Simple prototypes made in Canva following brand colour palette, testing typography, colour, and layout.

POD brand colour palette
Five initial POD Pilates logo prototypes

Test and Refine Final Design

Timeless, versatile logo finalised on Adobe Illustrator with multiple colour configurations, sizes, and formats.

POD Pilates Logo — 4x4 one row
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Final Work

A simple, timeless logo design that is scalable across multiple platforms, with carefully-considered typography, constrained colour palette, and visual hierarchy to match brand's values of inclusivity and accessibility.

POD Pilates Logo — Upfront Banner
POD Pilates Logo — Logo on Website