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Alteco.

Investment School

Brand concept

corporate identity


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The Investment School was founded by a married couple, Alexander and Xenia Kozhevnikov. Their approach: investments should be understandable and accessible to anyone. The core audience of the school are women (to a lesser extent men) of average age and average income, educated, with a desire for self-development, with or without a family, possibly with small children. The classic portrait is a university teacher, engineer, doctor.

They have decided to be conscious about their finances, to take care of the future, to change the traditional paradigm of ‘from salary to salary’, to create passive income. They are interested in the topic of investments and want to learn how, by changing their attitude to money and expenses, they can fundamentally change their future. You can read about the creation of the school, personal stories, and the product itself in the VK group, on the Youtube channel, and on Instagram.

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Before the redesign

Post design

and video covers,

photos, colours,

fonts, layouts

1. Rough geometry

2. aggressive font effects and colours (rich blue, bright yellow)

3. Straightforward, superficial photographic style, poses, gestures and emotions

4. overall impression: there are a million of them, ‘money fast’, chaotic, no overall visual style and character of the brand as a whole. The eye clings to everything and nothing at the same time - a ‘street in Tokyo’ effect: lots of screaming headlines that flow into a single overall visual noise.

5. Dissonance between texture, aesthetics of characters and design elements.

What we take and what we go with move on

1. the images in which the characters are most organic - light minimalist retro style. Alexander looks like a Gucci model in a turtleneck and jacket. Ksenia blossoms in light soft clothes, with smoothly styled hair or soft waves. Bright colours suit her (not in accessories, but in full-fledged things: coat, dress).

2. Take humour, spontaneity, lightness.

3. We emphasise the relationship between the guys: warm, trusting, respectful.

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Meaningful
concept
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The general character of the characters' interaction and the main plot are “expert and student”.

Alexander tells how to do things correctly, leads the way, gives expert answers to questions; Ksenia listens, learns, follows her husband, makes small and sometimes ridiculous mistakes, asks questions. All communication between the characters and the brand's communication with clients will be built on this plot. Alexander speaks, Xenia listens attentively. There are always fascinating dialogues, substantive discussions or even polemics between the characters, they are interested in each other, they are colleagues and best friends, yet completely different.

They are a couple of people in whose company it is always comfortable and interesting to just be around, to listen to what they talk about, what they argue about.

They both have a wealth of life experience and can talk long and passionately about the intricacies of investments and the secrets of finance.

After dinner with such friends, you always go home filled. They know how to infect you with an idea, to motivate you by personal example (not through ‘you can do it’, ‘you can do it’).

Just looking at them, you just want the same: to start as soon as possible, to learn, to invest the first thousand, to play this exciting game. Confidence is also given by the fact that behind your shoulders there are always reliable friends who will advise and support you.


A lot of interaction can be built on the polemic technique (for example, a dispute in stories with a final poll ‘whose point of view do you adhere to?’). Ksenia will ask questions or raise objections that are of most interest to the audience, literally ‘taken off the tongue’ of subscribers and listeners. This will instantly hook people, because she ‘thinks the same way’, ‘fears the same’, makes the same mistakes.

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Emotional background to which we will strive: calmness, confidence, reliability, domesticity, playfulness, lightness, a little humour, directness, light aristocratic, intellectuality, intellectuality.

The Alteco are not faces off the screen, unfamiliar important financiers in jackets - they are my friends, I know them personally, we meet for dinner on Fridays and spend hours discussing investments and relationships with money in front of the fireplace in their house and laugh a lot.

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Photostyles characters: plots, composition, scenarios

We'll take everything.

The photographer will need just repeat it.


In the new design, photography plays a key role, because the brand is built on personalities.

1. Calm


1. Always natural! In posture, facial expressions, literally everything. No acting.

2. Calm tones, tweed jackets, checked fabrics, muted but saturated colours.

3. In stories - following the concept of ‘expert-learner’.

4. Lots of ‘domestic’ settings.

5. A slight retro flair. Somewhere - a record player, somewhere flashed a chair from the 70's, reupholstered with new fabric in a large square. Lots of books.

6. In the examples below we can see that the colours are still bright and saturated, but these are quite different photos!

7. Do not be afraid to shoot on film, do not be afraid of blurred frames, glare, non-trivial subjects, blurred objects in the foreground - everything that makes a photo alive.

8. Alternatively, you can try more creative shots, such as: A full-face photo on a monochrome bright orange background. Heroes in pastel colours: Alexander is wearing a beige jacket with a red check, jeans; Xenia is wearing a denim dress, expensive rounded glasses with gold frames.

2. Fashion

Inside every person is a supermodel. It all depends on the style, the skill of the photographer and the eye of the beholder.

3. Playful

The guys have a penchant for ‘joke’ scenarios.

I always build the concept on the person's personality without trying to remake them, finding the right formats to express their character and styles to show personal charm. The guys can literally repeat the plots of famous pictures and the past. The colour scheme, the atmosphere of Soviet family photos in the studios also perfectly suits the types of Alexander and Xenia.

See how the beauty of the characters

of the characters in the new

concept.

The students at their school will literally

see themselves in these photos,

their parents ‘when they were young’.

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Clothing/style

we've developed a personalised

style for each character based on

based on their natural beauty.

All recommendations and references

can be repeated 1 to 1.

- Alexander
Easy retro style, rigid shapes, simple geometry, horn-rimmed glasses, turtleneck with jacket, tweed, checked, wool. Expensive shoes: brogues, loafers in deep brown leather, suede in muted navy blue.

Onelove

- Ksenia
Easy retro style, soft shapes, WITHOUT contrast in clothes, make-up, everything. Soft coats, dense but soft fabrics, light oversize.

Types of styling,

character make-up

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Visual

Concept:

Urban

lifestyle magazine

The best souvenirs from our travels are samples of magazines and booklets that we collect in museums, cafes, architectural offices, banks, libraries, theatres.... Looking at them, we realise that great solutions have already been created and surround us everywhere, and we only need to extrapolate the principles of these solutions correctly for our task.
Below are more references, design samples. All the techniques shown in the references are absolutely suitable for Alteco and reveal the overall visual concept of urban lifestyle magazine and light retro style.

Large typography

Magazine layout with footer lines

Overlapping text and photos

‘Faded’ black and white photos (burn-in + slight graininess and defocus)

Gradient backgrounds

Calm, dusty shades of mustard, brick, khaki.

For accents - coral, blue (in the case of more colourful layouts for promotions, advertising lending).

Cropping of the photo in the form of an arch, oval.

Accent retro fonts with serifs for titles.

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Instagram:

design samples

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Infographics:

Style, samples

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Landing page design

For the course:

general direction

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Photostyle:

pen test

Below are the results of the guys' first photo shoot using the new concept.

A better quality work of the photographer in creating a composition in the frame, choosing the most advantageous angle, creating the right mood and level of relaxation of the heroes during the shooting process and the right emotion at the moment when the frame is created + the right delicate color correction is desirable.


Now the photos are not as professional as in the references. Below, using one photo as an example, I have laid out the mistakes with explanations.

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    1. There are too many unnecessary objects in the frame. The characters themselves are quite bright, wearing saturated colors, and the active decor in the interior is too much.
    2. The leg in this particular scene looks ugly
    3. The carpet is too simple and overloads the frame
    4. The shooting angle is too high, which neutralizes the "significance" of the character in the frame, his "authority". Shooting from a middle or low point creates the necessary feeling of expertise and coolness of the character.
    5. With such a composition, the characters' gazes directed in different directions look inharmonious.
    6. The dark blue sofa looks like a huge black spot and "absorbs" the characters' figures. An ivory-colored couch and light gray walls with scuffs in the background would be appropriate here.
    7. The overall aggressive color scheme, despite the fact that in general all the colors are within the framework of the new color style.
    Next is an option that was slightly corrected and which looks much more advantageous:
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Other photos: