GPES
Overview
A distinct logotype and branded house strategy frame the offerings of this fund management software company with familial origins.
Backing up a Bit
Prior to GPES, I updated the visual branding of its sister company—GP Fund Solutions (GPFS)—a fund administrator based in New York with offices abroad. Ambitious, highly-skilled and devoutly employee-focused, GPFS had out-grown the wardrobe of its initial branding and sought an aesthetic refinement to better reflect the values and position it occupies within the accounting industry. To that, I created several brand refinements starting with a logo rework, color and typography selection, compositional arrangements and original photography, all culminating in the design and buildout of a new website. A sacred cow, the company's original symbol found a harmonious pairing beside thoughtfully-selected type in several new, handsome arrangements.
Now to GPES: a fund management software company, the disparate but genetically-related sibling to GPFS. Its growing range of solutions are designed to ease life cycle pressures for fund managers and investors, alike. Led by industry insiders, GPES creates intelligent yet elemental products. It required a logo which reflects those truths.
Core Logotype
original lettering
Designed to imbue the feeling of technical proficiency: sturdy yet surprising, hardworking, regimented tonality in an ownable typographic structure. The attitude is commensurate with a confident, worldly endeavor.
Logotype Origins
Seeking to maintain a familial connection to GPFS as well as to devise a badge container (per the client), I used the following logic:
Full Logo Badge
badge with full clarifier
(set in URW DIN)
full clarifier logo
GPES Product Logos
Branded house strategy: “GP” references the parent, while standardized color and type express individual products.
"Powered by" logos
Clarifiers for downstream partnerships.