Creative lead. Irene M.
view resumeAgency or in-house, I lead projects from ideation to delivery while tackling the right questions that the briefings tend to hide.
· A new identity
The scenario
BUX is Europe's fastest-growing neobroker. Since 2014, the Amsterdam fintech has been teaching new generations a simple lesson: investing isn't as hard as they were told.
Almost a decade in, that lesson was being taught across 8 European countries. In 2023, BUX wasn't trying to disrupt the market anymore: it was setting up to lead it - and leadership starts with a foundation strong enough to scale.
Nine years of fast growth had pulled the identity in directions of its own, into a brand that no longer read as one: the brand wasn't ready to scale.
More than a book
The brand book wasn't a refresh, but the foundation BUX didn't have.
We started with a full audit, examining every surface BUX showed up on across multiple markets, and the drift was specific: typography varied surface to surface, colours had loosened and the brand assets had stopped being recognisable.
Against that, we built the first BUX brand book - covering positioning, tone of voice, key messages and visual identity.
One source of truth, digital and print.
The system
We delivered a tightened system: a sharpened colour palette, a smaller set of typographic weights and sizes, and illustrations placed under rules of their own - kept in context, used the right way. A more mature BUX, a brand that re-earned its real trust.
Not just a book - but the maturity and consistency BUX needed to scale.