Awards and Recognition
Over more than two decades, Brandient has earned more than 80 awards and distinctions for its brand strategy and design work. In 2015 Brandient became an inaugural inductee of the Rebrand100® Hall of Fame, recognized alongside Interbrand and MetaDesign.
Our work has been honored by the Red Dot Award, Graphis, Pentawards, the REBRAND 100® Global Awards, the German Design Award, the European Logo Design Annual, the Transform Awards and Identity: Best of the Best — across logo and visual-identity design, packaging, corporate-identity programmes, digital and environmental design, communication design and complex rebranding. While enhancing our clients’ business through branding is our supreme goal, international recognition is always a welcome extra validation to our work.
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2026 · Graphis Design Awards, Gold (Logo) for CoffeEast Festival brand identity.
Romania has Europe's fastest-growing coffee scene, so Brandient fused Coffee and East into CoffeEast and built a deconstructable icon of Eastern-European coffee verve that rearranges across every surface.
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2026 · Graphis Design Awards, Gold (Branding) for CoffeEast Festival brand identity.
Romania has Europe's fastest-growing coffee scene, so Brandient fused Coffee and East into CoffeEast and built a deconstructable icon of Eastern-European coffee verve that rearranges across every surface.
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2026 · Graphis Design Awards, Silver (Logo) for EDGE Institute brand.
Asked to brand a think tank, Brandient built a movement — Edge Institute, to Empower Digital Growth and Evolution — its pixelated identity poised at the frontier of Romania's digital future.
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2026 · Graphis Design Awards, Silver (Branding) for EDGE Institute brand.
Asked to brand a think tank, Brandient built a movement — Edge Institute, to Empower Digital Growth and Evolution — its pixelated identity poised at the frontier of Romania's digital future.
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2026 · Graphis Design Awards, Silver (Branding) for Jazzberry brand identity.
Brandient gave Jazzberry — an artisan patisserie in Transylvania — an identity that plays its jazz-and-berry name as music, the letters set like notes across a staff.
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2026 · Graphis Design Awards, Honorable Mention (Logo) for Jazzberry brand identity.
Brandient gave Jazzberry — an artisan patisserie in Transylvania — an identity that plays its jazz-and-berry name as music, the letters set like notes across a staff.
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2026 · Graphis Design Awards, Gold (Branding) for Team Romania emblem.
Brandient gave Romania's Olympic team its first commercial emblem — Brâncuși's Endless Column entwined with a traditional-shirt motif in the national colors — approved by the IOC for Paris 2024.
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2025 · Red Dot Award for CoffeEast Festival brand identity.
Romania has Europe's fastest-growing coffee scene, so Brandient fused Coffee and East into CoffeEast and built a deconstructable icon of Eastern-European coffee verve that rearranges across every surface.
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2024 · REBRAND 100® Global Awards, Best of for Cărturești rebranding.
For the bookstore built on 'resistance through culture,' Brandient made the name the identity — a word-puzzle logo that recomposes 'Cărturești' into moods and lifestyles, in Romanian and English.
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2024 · REBRAND 100® Global Awards, Merit for Fashion Days rebranding.
Brandient rebranded the regional fashion platform around the idea 'the extraordinary of normality' — a flexible logo celebrating fashion culture inside today's culture of instant, effortless convenience.
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2024 · REBRAND 100® Global Awards, Distinction for Tazz brand.
In the speed-obsessed delivery category, Brandient named the new player Tazz — after the Tasmanian devil — with a reverse-reading thunder mark built for hyperbolized, always-on-the-run visibility.
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2022 · Graphis Poster Annual, Silver Series for Pant Hoot identity and poster.
Brandient created the identity and poster for Pant Hoot, Richard Reens' award-winning documentary about a genocide survivor who masters the chimpanzees' 'pant-hoot' call at Jane Goodall's Chimp Eden.
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2022 · Hiiibrand Awards, Best Brand Award for Team Romania identity.
Brandient’s 2015 Team Romania identity — the R+O monogram with the hora motif — took Hiiibrand’s Best Brand Award, one of only ten brands ever to receive the competition’s top honor, from a jury led by Kashiwa Sato.
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2021 · Red Dot Award for LoginRo brand identity.
For Brainspotting's brain-regain cause, Brandient coined LoginRo — a call to 'log in' to Romania — voiced in a custom typeface built from binary code given human ascenders and arms.
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2020 · Graphis Design Annual, Silver (Logo) for Agora Floreasca identity.
For the Agora food hall, Brandient drew its city-gathering name into the identity — the letter 'A' laid over the district's street map — under the curatorial line 'Urban Theory.'
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2020 · Graphis Design Annual, Honorable Mention (Branding) for Agora Floreasca identity.
For the Agora food hall, Brandient drew its city-gathering name into the identity — the letter 'A' laid over the district's street map — under the curatorial line 'Urban Theory.'
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2018 · Transform Awards Asia, Silver — Best Visual Identity, energy & utilities sector for Geneco brand.
Brandient created Geneco for Singapore's consumer-energy market, extending YTL's renewable reputation — a spear-and-green identity speaking the circular economy, promising 'Power to empower.'
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2017 · German Design Award, Nominee for BIZ Singapore magazine cover.
For BIZ magazine's Singapore issue, Brandient built the wordmark from the city's landmarks — the 'S' a Merlion, the 'E' Marina Bay Sands — a cover you read like visual Singlish.
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2017 · Graphis Design Annual, Gold for Depanero brand.
Brandient gave the electronics-repair leader a running ostrich for speed — its head a power socket — carrying the bold promise 'we fix anything that connects to a socket.'
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2017 · Graphis Design Annual, Merit for Fragedo packaging.
For Transavia's premium poultry brand Fragedo, Brandient broke category convention — putting kitchen vegetables, not the meat, across 50-plus packs — to tell a 'pure and safe, from grain to fork' story.
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2017 · Graphis Design Annual, Silver for Romanian Football Cup brand.
Brandient rebranded the Romanian Football Cup as 'the heart of football' — two eagles contesting the trophy, the negative space of their wings forming both its handles and a heart.
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2017 · Red Dot Award for Silva repositioning.
Brandient repositioned Heineken's 40-year-old Transylvanian beer Silva as authentic Romanian craft quality — naming its new range and dressing it in craftsmanship — under the line 'New beer, old love.'
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2016 · Graphis Logo Design, Silver for Balvanyos Resort brand.
For the relaunched Carpathian thermal resort, Brandient drew its logo from the region's ancient runic script — folklore made modern — turning virgin Transylvanian forest and water into a cool hospitality brand.
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2016 · Graphis Logo Design, Merit for Team Romania emblem.
Brandient's 2015 Team Romania identity for the Romanian Olympic and Sports Committee — the R+O monogram woven with the traditional hora motif in the national colors.
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2016 · Graphis Logo Design, Platinum for Tinmar logo.
When Romania's energy market opened, Brandient rebranded B2B leader Tinmar for consumers too — a 3D crystal 'T' monogram that reorients per subsidiary, rigid yet airy, exact yet vibrant.
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2016 · Hiii Typography, Merit for BIZ Singapore magazine cover.
For BIZ magazine's Singapore issue, Brandient built the wordmark from the city's landmarks — the 'S' a Merlion, the 'E' Marina Bay Sands — a cover you read like visual Singlish.
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2016 · Hiiibrand Awards, nomination for Interactive Group identity.
Brandient branded the pan-Asian IT integrator on its own HOPE strategy — health, connectivity, public sector, enterprise — as the idea 'Fulfilling Hope,' rooted in the founding family's values.
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2016 · Hiiibrand Awards, Bronze for Team Romania emblem.
Brandient's 2015 Team Romania identity for the Romanian Olympic and Sports Committee — the R+O monogram woven with the traditional hora motif in the national colors.
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2016 · REBRAND 100® Global Awards, Merit for Interactive Group identity.
Brandient branded the pan-Asian IT integrator on its own HOPE strategy — health, connectivity, public sector, enterprise — as the idea 'Fulfilling Hope,' rooted in the founding family's values.
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2016 · REBRAND 100® Global Awards, Distinction for Team Romania emblem.
Brandient's 2015 Team Romania identity for the Romanian Olympic and Sports Committee — the R+O monogram woven with the traditional hora motif in the national colors.
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2015 · Graphis Design Annual, Silver for BIZ Singapore magazine cover.
For BIZ magazine's Singapore issue, Brandient built the wordmark from the city's landmarks — the 'S' a Merlion, the 'E' Marina Bay Sands — a cover you read like visual Singlish.
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2015 · Graphis Design Annual, Merit for Yardini restaurant brand.
For a Bucharest restaurant and summer garden, Brandient coined Yardini — 'yard,' 'jardin,' an Italian lilt — and gave it two anthropomorphic rabbits dining together, lovely and unforgettable.
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2015 · Hiii International Institute of Ideas
Cristian Kit Paul named an Honorary Life Member — the institute’s most prominent position — having juried the inaugural Hiii Brand in 2010, alongside Wally Olins and Joe Duffy.
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2015 · REBRAND Hall of Fame
Brandient entered the inaugural REBRAND Hall of Fame class, recognized alongside Interbrand and MetaDesign.
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2015 · Red Dot Award for BIZ Singapore magazine cover.
For BIZ magazine's Singapore issue, Brandient built the wordmark from the city's landmarks — the 'S' a Merlion, the 'E' Marina Bay Sands — a cover you read like visual Singlish.
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2014 · German Design Award, nomination for Indygen brand.
For Vodafone's teen brand Indygen, Brandient refused telecom identity altogether — building a youth-culture brand instead, with a multilingual name and a rule-breaking voice all its own.
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2014 · Graphis Design Annual, Silver for The Lawyer's House Wine label.
Brandient designed the label for The Lawyer's House — a private gift wine the law firm Țuca & Asociații presents to its clients.
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2014 · Graphis Design Annual, Merit for Übernuts packaging.
Brandient broke into the crowded nuts category with Übernuts — 'über' superiority winked through the pun on 'nuts' — hand-drawn type and neon packs where every nut dreams of stardom.
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2014 · Pentawards, Silver for Übernuts packaging.
Brandient broke into the crowded nuts category with Übernuts — 'über' superiority winked through the pun on 'nuts' — hand-drawn type and neon packs where every nut dreams of stardom.
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2013 · German Design Award, nomination for Bitdefender rebranding.
Brandient's rebranding turned Bitdefender's Romanian roots into strength, anchoring the cybersecurity leader in Dacian mythology — the Dragon-Wolf, or Draco, a totem of vigilance and protection.
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2013 · Graphis Branding, Gold for Bitdefender rebranding.
Brandient's rebranding turned Bitdefender's Romanian roots into strength, anchoring the cybersecurity leader in Dacian mythology — the Dragon-Wolf, or Draco, a totem of vigilance and protection.
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2013 · Graphis Branding, Silver for Nextebank rebranding.
Brandient rebranded MKB's bank for entrepreneurs as Nextebank — next-generation banking — led by a cheetah for speed, agility and efficiency, dressed in speed stripes and nickel textures.
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2013 · Graphis Branding, Merit for Rugby Romania identity.
Pro bono, Brandient rebranded Romanian rugby by folding an oval ball into the beloved oak leaf — force and endurance — weeks before the team clinched its Rugby World Cup berth.
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2013 · Graphis Branding, Silver for eMAG identity.
Brandient modernized the e-commerce leader around shopping joy — a color-gradient logo and a modular, layered illustration system that scales across delivery-locker blocks of any size.
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2013 · Graphis Design Annual, Merit for Solaris identity.
Brandient created Solaris as the umbrella for 100-plus raw-food, spice and natural-remedy products — a generous name and a vivid, optimistic identity for unprocessed, healthy nutrition.
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2013 · LA International Wine & Spirits Competition, Best of Class + 9 Gold Medals for Minima Moralia packaging.
For Domeniul Coroanei Segarcea, Brandient named the wine Minima Moralia after the philosopher's work — six human values portrayed in real faces shot on antique wet-plate collodion.
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2013 · REBRAND 100® Global Awards, Distinction for Bitdefender rebranding.
Brandient's rebranding turned Bitdefender's Romanian roots into strength, anchoring the cybersecurity leader in Dacian mythology — the Dragon-Wolf, or Draco, a totem of vigilance and protection.
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2012 · Color in Design, Exceptional Use of Colour for Solaris identity.
Brandient created Solaris as the umbrella for 100-plus raw-food, spice and natural-remedy products — a generous name and a vivid, optimistic identity for unprocessed, healthy nutrition.
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2012 · Graphis Design Annual, Gold for eMAG identity.
Brandient modernized the e-commerce leader around shopping joy — a color-gradient logo and a modular, layered illustration system that scales across delivery-locker blocks of any size.
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2012 · REBRAND 100® Global Awards, Distinction for Bitdefender rebranding.
Brandient's rebranding turned Bitdefender's Romanian roots into strength, anchoring the cybersecurity leader in Dacian mythology — the Dragon-Wolf, or Draco, a totem of vigilance and protection.
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2011 · Graphis Logo Design, Merit for MyStaff name and identity.
Brandient named and branded MyStaff, a US cloud HR-helpdesk — 'my staff,' plain and personal — putting the employee at the very heart of human resources.
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2011 · Graphis Logo Design, Merit for Patria Credit rebranding.
Brandient named the lender Patria — patriotic and aspirational — and drew its identity from Romanian folk-art heritage, a relationship-banking brand built to stand close to its customers.
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2011 · Graphis Logo Design, Merit for Senia Music logo.
For Senia Music, a small musical-instruments shop, Brandient drew a logo with quiet wit — a cat contentedly playing the harp.
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2011 · REBRAND 100® Global Awards, Merit for Patria Credit rebranding.
Brandient named the lender Patria — patriotic and aspirational — and drew its identity from Romanian folk-art heritage, a relationship-banking brand built to stand close to its customers.
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2010 · PR Award Romania, Golden Award for CEC Bank rebranding.
Brandient rebranded Romania's oldest bank, founded in 1864 — adding 'Bank' to CEC and crowning it with the national oak leaf, a shield placing deep heritage at the service of revival.
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2010 · Pentawards, Bronze for Cuculand brand.
Brandient built Cuculand, an ice-tea cult brand — 'the imaginary life in a real country' — wide-eyed humour and the rallying line 'Pure & Free,' for the young, pure and free.
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2010 · Transform Awards, Silver for Rugby Romania identity.
Pro bono, Brandient rebranded Romanian rugby by folding an oval ball into the beloved oak leaf — force and endurance — weeks before the team clinched its Rugby World Cup berth.
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2010 · Transform Awards, Gold for eMAG identity.
Brandient modernized the e-commerce leader around shopping joy — a color-gradient logo and a modular, layered illustration system that scales across delivery-locker blocks of any size.
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2009 · PR Award Romania, Special Award for Brandient 101 book.
It gathered the first 101 brand identities Brandient created — content and design by Brandient — the first editorial project of its kind in Romania.
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2009 · Pentawards, nomination for MyStaff name and identity.
Brandient named and branded MyStaff, a US cloud HR-helpdesk — 'my staff,' plain and personal — putting the employee at the very heart of human resources.
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2009 · Pentawards, Bronze for Papane packaging.
Brandient created the packaging for Papane, Transavia's breaded-chicken range — appetite-led and playful on the supermarket shelf.
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2009 · REBRAND 100® Global Awards, Merit for CEC Bank rebranding.
Brandient rebranded Romania's oldest bank, founded in 1864 — adding 'Bank' to CEC and crowning it with the national oak leaf, a shield placing deep heritage at the service of revival.
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2009 · REBRAND 100® Global Awards, Best of for Dedeman rebranding.
Brandient rebranded the DIY leader around 'Dedicated to your plans' and an unexpected helmeted dog — serious, attentive, memorable — which became Romania's most-recognized brand mark.
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2007 · Pentawards, Bronze for Zuzu brand.
For Albalact, Brandient created Zuzu — an unconventional, instantly memorable yogurt name — its minimalist, feather-light packaging signaling gentleness for an urban, young audience.
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2007 · REBRAND 100® Global Awards, Distinction for Domo rebranding.
Brandient rebranded the appliances chain around 'Domo — for your home,' giving its two striped balls a playful personality that made shopping enjoyable and the brand instantly approachable.
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2007 · REBRAND 100® Global Awards, Distinction for Savana packaging.
Brandient reimagined the packaging of Savana — Fabryo's premium paint — from barren savanna to a vibrant spectacle of life and color, animals drawing the eye and signaling true quality.
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2006 · EULDA (European Logo Design Annual), Winner for Albalact corporate rebrand.
Riding the success of its Fulga brand, Brandient gave dairy producer Albalact a corporate identity to match — a witty symbol fusing heart, udder and milk-flow in greens, whites and blues.
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2006 · EULDA (European Logo Design Annual), Winner for Domo rebranding.
Brandient rebranded the appliances chain around 'Domo — for your home,' giving its two striped balls a playful personality that made shopping enjoyable and the brand instantly approachable.
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2006 · EULDA (European Logo Design Annual), Best of Nation for Europharm rebranding.
After GSK's acquisition, Brandient bridged both worlds for Europharm — keeping its heritage serpent, weaving in GSK's form and color, the logo's outline quietly tracing a heart.
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2006 · EULDA (European Logo Design Annual), Winner for Radiocom naming and identity.
As the national broadcaster expanded into telecom, Brandient named it Radiocom and built a 'towering wave field' — perpendicular lines of power and credibility, green for closeness.
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2006 · EULDA (European Logo Design Annual), Winner for Smartree naming and identity.
Brandient's very first project, in 2002: it named the company then trading as human-resources.ro 'Smartree,' an identity that became one of Brandient's most-awarded, most-published logos.
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2006 · Identity: Best of the Best (Moscow), nomination for Albalact corporate rebrand.
Riding the success of its Fulga brand, Brandient gave dairy producer Albalact a corporate identity to match — a witty symbol fusing heart, udder and milk-flow in greens, whites and blues.
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2006 · Identity: Best of the Best (Moscow), nomination for Brandient identity.
Brandient's own identity, nominated at Identity: Best of the Best in Moscow.
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2006 · Identity: Best of the Best (Moscow), nomination + Second Place, Retail for Domo rebranding.
Brandient rebranded the appliances chain around 'Domo — for your home,' giving its two striped balls a playful personality that made shopping enjoyable and the brand instantly approachable.
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2006 · Identity: Best of the Best (Moscow), nomination for Europharm rebranding.
After GSK's acquisition, Brandient bridged both worlds for Europharm — keeping its heritage serpent, weaving in GSK's form and color, the logo's outline quietly tracing a heart.
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2006 · Identity: Best of the Best (Moscow), nomination for Gabi Szabo personal brand.
Brandient created the personal brand of Olympic-champion runner Gabriela Szabo.
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2006 · Identity: Best of the Best (Moscow), nomination + Third Place, Industry for Radiocom naming and identity.
As the national broadcaster expanded into telecom, Brandient named it Radiocom and built a 'towering wave field' — perpendicular lines of power and credibility, green for closeness.
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2006 · Identity: Best of the Best (Moscow), nomination for Savana packaging.
Brandient reimagined the packaging of Savana — Fabryo's premium paint — from barren savanna to a vibrant spectacle of life and color, animals drawing the eye and signaling true quality.
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2006 · Identity: Best of the Best (Moscow), nomination (corporate id) + nomination (packaging) + Second Place, Services for Smartree naming and identity.
Brandient's very first project, in 2002: it named the company then trading as human-resources.ro 'Smartree,' an identity that became one of Brandient's most-awarded, most-published logos.
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2006 · Identity: Best of the Best (Moscow), nomination for Zuzu brand.
For Albalact, Brandient created Zuzu — an unconventional, instantly memorable yogurt name — its minimalist, feather-light packaging signaling gentleness for an urban, young audience.
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2005 · REBRAND 100® Global Awards, Merit for Europharm rebranding.
After GSK's acquisition, Brandient bridged both worlds for Europharm — keeping its heritage serpent, weaving in GSK's form and color, the logo's outline quietly tracing a heart.
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2005 · REBRAND 100® Global Awards, Merit for Smartree naming and identity.
Brandient's very first project, in 2002: it named the company then trading as human-resources.ro 'Smartree,' an identity that became one of Brandient's most-awarded, most-published logos.
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2005 · REBRAND 100® Global Awards, Merit for TVR brand strategy.
Over eighteen months Brandient built the strategic brand platform for Romania's public broadcaster — bringing its four channels under one identity and framing the international tender that delivered the new look.
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2003 · Most Beautiful Books (Romania), Art Book category for Transit art book.
Brandient designed Transit, documentary photographer Cosmin Bumbuț's first book — railway lines, winter and steam, words by Gabriel Liiceanu — named Romania's Art Book of the Year.
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