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A global architects brand built for what’s next.

BDP SignBDP Sign
2025
Built environment
StrategyDesignDigital

After 60 years of shaping places worldwide, BDP had become one of the industry’s leading global design and engineering practices. But as the brand grew, its story was getting lost and needed re-telling to fuel growth and meet the future head on.

What we deliveredBrand storyBrand voiceDesign systemDesign activationMotion designWebsite
BDP Bus station
BDP Context
BDP History
BDP Process
BDP old culture
BDP Building
BDP Brand of old
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Strategy

After working with BDP's team to understand who they were, what they do and where they want to be, we helped them define a 'Brand Platform' that was flexible enough to both reclaim their place in the industry and offer a rallying cry for the company's future. That idea, was simply, that BDP were, and had always been, a true 'Built Original'.

BDP LOGO
BDP KX building
Design

As a ‘Built Original’, we encouraged BDP to show their renewed commitment to design in everything they produced – through a new brand system, language, emotional colours, and a refreshed brand book the whole team could own.

Typography specimen for BDP brand guidelines
BDP TOTE
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Typography specimen for BDP brand guidelines
BDP TOTE
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BDP Poster in wooden frame in office against sideboard
BDP MAGAZINE
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BDP Poster in wooden frame in office against sideboard
BDP MAGAZINE
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BDP Book
BDP Book
ALT TOV
ALT TOV
BDP Red pen
BDP Red pen
BDP BOOK COVER
VISION BOOK SPREAD
VISION BOOK SPREAD
VISION BOOK SPREAD
VISION BOOK BACK
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BDP BOOK COVER
VISION BOOK SPREAD
VISION BOOK SPREAD
VISION BOOK SPREAD
VISION BOOK BACK
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Digital

Perhaps the most vital part of this brand position was their new online presence – which needed to deliver all the brand thinking in one place.

The previous site carried with a it, a lot of disparate content that needed reframing, which we did with three simple themes: Think, Design, and Practice. Now there was a consistent and easily understood way to structure all the content in one place. Any team could easily see how to plug themselves in.

BDP DESKTOP
BDP DESKTOP
BDP website on ipad on red sofa
BDP website on ipad on red sofa
Interaction
Interaction
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