Skiff

As creative collaboration shifts online, Skiff offers a secure, encrypted workspace built on Web3 technology, giving users full ownership of their data. The platform supports real-time editing and communication while ensuring complete privacy. We partnered with the Skiff team to create a brand identity that emphasizes clarity and empowerment, presenting Skiff as an intuitive, user-friendly tool that blends high-level security with seamless, decentralized collaboration.

The new visual identity is rooted in modernist design principles, using sleek typography, structured icons, and a refined color palette to convey trust and sophistication. The Skiff symbol itself subtly represents privacy through rotating surfaces that alternately reveal and conceal, with circular forms suggesting ongoing security and creative renewal. Secondary visuals enhance this theme by shifting objects in and out of focus, reinforcing the idea of protected, yet fluid, collaboration.

Designed at Pentagram with Luke Hayman, Shigeto Akiyama, Ben Law, Jordan Taylor, and Avery George

Visual identityWebsite design
Skiff logo
Open Macbook with Skiff website on screen, sitting on seamless white background
Corner of iPhone showing grid of apps
Five variations of Skiff logo showing adjustments in detail
Alphabet set in font Stabil Grotesk.
Alphabet set in font GT Super Text.
Grid of colors from Skiff's brand palette
Abstract illustration of red cylinder and spheres on pink background
Illustration of marbled red sphere balanced on blue pyramid on a yellow background
Grid of pages from Skiff brand guidelines
Grid of object icons
Icon of magnifying glass with guides showing illustration geometry
On a rugged exterior wall, a poster with fields of green and pink blurry circles in the background and text reading "Be a producer, not a product" on top.