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A SUBDIVISION OF COLLECTIVE STUDIO
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Hanoi | Saigon | New York
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We are a design agency �specializing in Branding & Digital Experience
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we design with a human touch
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With an international team based in Vietnam (Hanoi & Saigon) and U.S. (New York & Philadelphia), Collective Studio is a creative studio specializing in human-centered design, transformative technology, and digital storytelling. Our vision is to tell the stories yet to be told and render them into the modern era.
Founded in 2020, Collective Design Agency serves as a branch of Collective Studio with its sole purpose: working with international clients and turning their vision into reality through our unique lenses of culture and society.
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Collective Hanoi-based team, 2022
what we offer
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As a creative agency, we specialize in branding and digital experience. ��We utilize comprehensive brand strategy and creative problem solving to deliver maximum impact for our client. Here're some of the services we provide.
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Branding
Digital Experience
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how do we approach a project?
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With each project, we usually divide the project timeline into four distinct phases: Discovery, Concept, Production, and Delivery. ��Throughout our process, we take an iterative and collaborative approach in order to thoroughly understand our clients’ needs; at the same time, we are always looking for opportunities to go above and beyond to deliver maximum impact.
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Discovery
Concept
Production
Delivery
our journey to an impactful project
Create distinct thematic/ design concepts or quick tech prototypes to decide which concept to move forward with and build the design framework.
Design specific deliverables and develop any digital products specific to each project.
This phase spans over a number of rounds that involve both design & development.
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Understand or establish the context for the project, including interviewing clients, conducting research, and forming strategy.
Deliver the project to the client or to the dev team.
Make minor adjustments if needed and conduct any QA or launch-related production.
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our works
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Green&Flow
Branding
Green&Flow Cooperative / Dong Long Fund
Green&Flow, supported by the Dong Long Fund, embodies the future of community-based eco-tourism and sustainable agriculture.��Collective Design Agency proudly contributed to shaping their brand identity, highlighting our mission to promote sustainable growth and celebrate the beauty of Vietnamese culture. ��This initiative not only uplifts livelihoods in rural areas but also deepens connections to the natural world, local cultures, and communities.
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CIAT Agro-climatic Bulletins & Communications
Alliance Bioversity International - CIAT
CIAT’s initiatives redefine how Mekong Delta farmers engage with key agricultural data. Alliance Bioversity International - CIAT, as part of CGIAR, has collaborated with Collective Design Agency.��The aim is to modernize information delivery in agro-climatic bulletin (ACB) format while establishing a streamlined workflow between data centers, experts, and local farmers. Our strategic design enhances access to near-real-time weather updates and agricultural advisories.
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Vietnam National Lung Hospital Brand Extension & Website
Vietnam National Lung Hospital
Partnering with the VNLH, we expanded their brand presence, spreading it across varied applications - one example being a contemporary website that exudes warmth and professionalism, challenging the traditional cold and bureaucratic narrative of the healthcare sector.
The website is fully responsive and completely reimagined visually & functionally, with remapped UX and digital features to meet a more diverse audience - ranging from patients and doctors to experts and partnering institutions.
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30Y Vietnam-UAE
Diplomatic Relations
Embassy of Vietnam in UAE, Vietnam Ministry of Foreign Affairs
CDA are honored to be chosen as the logo design partner to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the diplomatic relations establishment between Vietnam and the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
Female virtues were a big inspiration: Grace, Resilience, and Perseverance - illustrated by the two women wearing their symbolic outfits and two symbolic trees - Vietnamese Wet Rice & Ghaf tree. These symbols reflect the spirit of foreign affairs, friendship, and cultural harmony between the two nations while still maintaining simplicity and modernity for flexible event application.
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Bayhaus
Rebranding
Bayhaus
This project rebrands Bayhaus, a consultancy agency in San Francisco Bay Area that focuses on creating content and personalizing learning through educational & enablement programs.��In this engagement, we’re refreshing every aspect of Bayhaus’s branding to modernize as well as align the brand's visual with its mission and core values.
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Horos Branding & Digital Experience
Horos
Diving into horoscope - a mystical Eastern art, we worked with Horos from the first step of creating the branding strategy & foundation, to visual identity and digital experience - including social media, personalized digital reports, and website.
Our distinct visual approach seeks to narrate Horos' singular tale in the spiritual landscape, harmoniously blending its cultural essence with a contemporary twist.
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Larry McAlister Branding & Website
Larry McAlister
In this project, we worked with Larry McAlister, an HR expert and consultant based in Silicon Valley to create his new personal branding. Larry describes himself as a “Corporate Humanist”, and values human-centered and tech-enabled management approach.��The goal is to solidify Larry McAlister as an innovator in the HR landscape and craft a consistent brand identity that encapsulates Larry's persona and underscores his role in pioneering the future of developing robust and effective business HR infrastructures.
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We Create Content Rebranding
We Create Content
This project rebrands We Create Content, a leading editorial agency in Vietnam that focuses on guiding and localizing content for international companies to enter the Vietnamese market. ��The rebranding goal was a unique, versatile identity adaptable across all touchpoints. Inspired by Vietnamese diacritics, various styles capture WCC's unapologetic spirit and cultural insight, allowing diverse graphic styles for editorial needs while also featuring a vibrant color palette.
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Shleep Kit
Shleep
Shleep was ideated in hopes of helping people rediscover the magical land of sleep and restful dreams in this busy age with its organic sleep-enhancing products.
The project's branding, with its quirky serif, unique logo, soothing color, and vibrant illustrations, suggests a mystical and magical experience. The entire packaging is framed like a story-book, and each product is housed in a ‘chapter’ within.
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CDSL+ MGMT
Website
CDSL Management Company
CDSL MGMT is a collaborative project with the aim of building a strong digital presence for CDSL through a cohesive visual system.
The website is bilingual, dark-mode supported, fully responsive, and powered by WordPress to serve as a comprehensive portal for info on the latest tours, events, and updates of all CDSL artists.
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itsnk Branding & Website
CDSL & itsnk
This branding project for itsnk features a robust & dynamic visual system that incorporates motion graphics.
Capturing itsnk spirit as a music producer based in Chicago & Vietnam, the branding utilizes visual motifs inspired by a DJ mixer with its many dials and crossfaders. The project also includes an interactive website to establish a strong digital presence for itsnk.
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j solomon
Website
j solomon
This website features the emerging young artist j solomon. As an NYC-based & Philadelphia native artist, Jesse takes his music inspiration from the rural suburbs of Pennsylvania & the gritty concrete of New York City.
The website utilizes negative space, scroll-based animation, as well as Squarespace-based CMS.
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LoopCentral Rebranding
Loop Central
“Keeping you in the Loop”, this is the motto of Loop Central - a Vietnamese non-profit newsroom founded with the goal to connect and inspire an open culture for the music-enthusiasts, uprising artists, and future professionals working in the music industry.��We collaborated closely with Loop Central team to understand their motivation behind the platform and their dedication of creating a new cultural movement that can foster a whole new generation of music lovers.
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GETNET Branding
GETNET & 2ME
GETNET was established as the hub for talented content creators in Vietnam. Their primary brand touchpoints are digital platforms and social media. ��We partnered with their team to position GETNET as a rising talent agency with a focus on future-conscious growth and digital content.
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Cinema For The Climate Posters
Drexel University &�Academy of Natural Sciences
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In celebration of a Philadelphia film festival about climate change, this poster series utilize the Philadelphia Heat Vulnerability Index (HVI) to identify the neighborhoods that are particularly vulnerable to heat in the area.
Using this data, we visualize the human impact of climate change on Philadelphia & U.S. through experimental motion graphics.
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Ento
Ento
Ento is an acronym for Entomophagy - meaning the eating of insects. This project introduces insects as a sustainable and delicious replacement for conventional protein sources.
We use a strong and playful Sans-serifs typography for Ento’s branding and packaging. The entire visual system was designed to evoke a flavorful experience that invites audiences to explore the wonderful world of insect snack.
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ChongLuaDao Redesign
https://next.chongluadao.vn/
This project reimagined ChongLuaDao - a non-profit project founded by HieuPC with the mission to protect Vietnamese users from ill-intentioned content and cyber scams - with a new brand identity and website. The design goal was to bring positive connotations when it comes to cybersecurity, reflect trustworthiness and assurance, and emphasize on the brand message "Safety within reach."
We used the "@" - a distinctive symbol that many Vietnamese netizens can relate to since the emergence of internet in the 90s. The "@" symbol is also a clever word play for “an toàn", “an tâm", and “an ninh."
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Auker Branding
Auker.io
Auker’s goal was to emphasize itself as an incubator and life-long partners for Vietnamese Web3 projects / startups as well as a platform for growth, networking and collaboration.
We want to preserve and reference at the Vietnamese core of the brand but do not play in to the cliche – focusing our visual language on emphasizing the community and technology aspect of the brand while remixing Vietnamese traditional motifs to adapt to the core ideas and visuals of Web3. Therefore, the brand system uses the ideas of growing eggs – a reference to “Mother Âu Cơ" and dividing cells – a reference to the Vietnamese term “đồng bào."
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Macrochain Rebranding
Macrochain
Macrochain is a venture capital and incubator that invested in blockchain-based projects and contributed to web decentralization in Vietnam. We want to emphasize Macrochain’s focus on building community and fostering blockchain culture in Vietnam.
The brand system uses two intersecting circles to convey the intersection between blockchain and community, this concept emphasize the role Macrochain plays as a leader in decentralization tech industry.
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DEVcentralized Branding
Young IT
DEVcentralized is a community and educational hub dedicated to the growth of Blockchain Technology in Vietnam.��Representing a fast growing and adaptive community, the brand system uses multiple dynamic symbol to visualize agility and adaptability, as well as using very bold colors to emphasizes the modern, up-to-date, and fast changing nature of the tech industry.
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Tô Gia Branding
Tô Gia Group
Founded on traditional Vietnamese familial values, To Gia has the ambition to become the leading real estate developer in Vietnam.
Inspired by To Gia historic roots in the center of Hanoi, we integrated traditional Hanoi architectural gestures to form a bold mark that not only represents the Vietnamese diacritic in “Tô” but also forms the shape of a home. We then iterated on the main logo to create supporting symbols that corresponds to different To Gia's values like “forward", “connection", etc
Using these symbols as the building blocks, we created a field of generative pattern that form the base for the rest of the branding system.
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CocoFood Rebranding
CocoFood
Collective has partnered with CocoFood - a food distribution brand to create a new brand identity that recognizes the emotional power of telling stories through gifting traditional snacks.
Using vibrant color and shapes to describe that indescribable good vibes associated with memories of sharing food, we create a visual system that is viscerally evocative and emotionally powerful.
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CocoFood Tet 2023 Gift Box
CocoFood
As part of their Tet campaign, CocoFood collaborated with Collective to design the packaging for their Tet-edition gift box. ��Using the brand system Collective designed previously for CocoFood, we created a comprehensive packaging system that playfully mimics the emotion journey of gift-giving. The box also comes with a deck of Tam Cuc - a traditional Vietnamese card game - illustrated in a whimsical style that aligns with the branding.
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3Alogistics Rebranding & Website
3Alogistics
3Alogistics is a logistics partner specializing in importing to and exporting from Vietnam. It has a wide network of storage units all over northern Vietnam.��Approaching this project, we want to position the company as a trusted partner for domestic and international businesses wanting to expand beyond and into Vietnam's border — one that navigates complexity and delivers simplicity.
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0L Network Landing Page
0L Network
0L is a community-driven crypto project - a fork of the open source codeset that was created by the Diem Association for the Diem network (previously known as “Libra.”) ��We partnered with 0L’s contributors to redesign an inspired landing page that conveys a sense of freedom, community and collaboration through use of minimalistic layout and stunning custom 3D assets.
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3D Secure
Self-Test Platform UX/UI Design
Atomworks
3DS is an transaction testing platform that aims to streamline and revolutionize e-finance / e-banking industry. The project aims to remap the user experience and redesign the platform's user interface to maximize the efficiency of the testing process.
Our approach to this project was to perform research and gain a deeper understanding of the user’s workflow. We also designed various components with Atomworks’ brand identity principles in mind. The final prototype was modular-based, dark-mode supported, and more intuitive towards different user roles.
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JCB J/Secure 2.0 UX/UI Design
Atomworks
This is our second project with Atomworks, with a focus on redesigning J/Secure 2.0 user interface for JCB.
The goal is to standardize screens and components throughout the interface, streamlining the transition from design to development and tech implementation.
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Scopee
Adobe Creative Jam
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The Scopee project was born with a desire to create a safe platform where young designers can learn and grow professionally.
This app prototype was submitted as an entry to Adobe Creative Jam, hoping to introduce young people (aged 10-18) as well as experienced designers to the vast open world of creativity and design.
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APICCO Logo
Asian and Pacific Islander Community Coalition of Oregon
Asian and Pacific Islander Community Coalition of Oregon (APICCO) is a non-profit & non-gov organization that promotes culture and advocates civic engagement activities for Asian & Pacific-Islander communities.
Our goal for the logo is to reflect and amplify APICCO’s core values: uplifting, connecting, and representation.
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concept poster
non-disclosed
These posters was done as part of a commissioned project for a startup specialized in data collection and classification.��This series of 3 posters depicts the infinite flow of data on the Internet. It begs the question: among the countless data generated by both humans and machines on the vast Internet, how can we classify and evaluate it? What makes “data streaming” a valuable tool in the digital age?
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Email: agency@collect.vn
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Phone: (+84) 988 086 860 (VN)
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