Paul Torres
[email protected]

Your Creative Brand Partner
San Francisco, CA, USA

Employer:
Nuna

Project:
Brand refresh

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Team

  • Ashley Taylor Anderson - Communications
  • Amelia Badish - Chief of Staff
  • Zach Louden - UX Design
  • Ariel Mir - Director of Communications
  • Karrah Phillips - Culture Lead
  • Brooke Thompson - Head of Design
  • Paul Torres - Art Director

  • Projects

  • Nuna archetype awards
  • Nuna art direction
  • Nuna brand leadership
  • Nuna brand refresh
  • Nuna challenge coin
  • Nuna Retreat
  • Role and Expertise

  • Art Direction
  • Creative Direction
  • Design
  • Illustration
  • Icons and symbols
  • Strategy

  • Industry

  • Healthcare
  • Startup

  • Location

  • San Francisco, CA
  • Making high-quality healthcare affordable and accessible to everyone by building data solutions for healthcare payers. I provided strategy, developed, and led the brand refresh effort to elevate Nuna’s brand. The brand refresh allowed Nuna products to be transformed. It signaled Nuna’s growth as a company and developing into a more mature empathetic startup. It was a great opportunity to serve as a milestone of where we were and hope to go and amplify those things.

    Web design and brand illustrations

    Web design and illustrations. Collaborated with our Content Director Ashley Taylor Anderson.

    Web design and editorial illustrations

    Product transformed by our UX team of: Liz Dalay, Zach Louden, and Christina Nguyen

    Why a brand refresh?

    The rebrand was started because Nuna was growing as a company. The brand was solid but needed some improvements to make it a stronger brand. Nuna yellow being used in the product was limiting and the illustration style was not grounded in the everyday. The brand needed to embody qualities identified in the discovery phase of the brand refresh:

    1. Empathetic
    2. Servant big sister archetype
    3. Mission driven
    4. The people

    Content Director Ashley Taylor Anderson wrote a great post about the entire process.

    The previous brand expressions were limiting and needed improvement

    Nuna Values

    Business cards

    Values stickers

    Healthcare system map, showing how information moves and where problems arise. Collaborated with our Design Research Lead Kellie Hodge

    Icons used in client presentations

    Mobile design and illustrations

    Brand colors. Introduction of new colors improved our products usability.

    Messaging

    Messaging

    Messaging and photography art direction

    Product design by our UX team of: Liz Dalay, Zach Louden, and Christina Nguyen

    Brand illustrations grounded in the everyday

    Brand illustrations. The illustrations improved recruiting as candidates and new hires commented they made it more personable and inviting.

    Design of employee backpack for our Nunas take while traveling.

    Design of employee market bag and outdoor blanket to encourage outdoor activities and connections for a healthy lifestyle

    Poster designs and illustrations for various events.

    Editorial illustrations by Paul Torres

    Portrait illustrations by Paul Torres for “How I Nuna” series

    Additional Brand Projects

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    Cisco - LIFT identity design 02
    Core Studio

    • Art Direction
    • Design
    • Motion
    • Software
    • Tech company

    Form and Fiction - Identity design
    Albertson Design

    • Art Direction
    • Design
    • Web design
    • Creative
    • Agency

    TED Conferences - Various projects
    Albertson Design

    • Art Direction
    • Design
    • Custom lettering
    • Non-profit
    • Media organization