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01Spatial IdentityLumen2025

Aurora

Aurora — Lumen

A living identity that breathes with light.

Role
Creative Direction · WebGL · Motion
Client
Lumen
Year
2025

/ Overview

Lumen came to us with a question instead of a brief: what does a brand look like when it is made of light, not ink? We answered with a spatial identity system — a real-time, GPU-driven mark that reacts to sound, cursor and time of day.

Every surface of the experience is procedural. No two visitors see the same Aurora, and yet it is unmistakably one brand. We built a custom shading pipeline, a motion grammar for the logo, and a editorial site that lets the work breathe.

Services

  • 01Creative Direction
  • 02Brand Identity
  • 03Real-time WebGL
  • 04Motion Design
  • 05Art Direction

Timeline

14 weeks

Awards

FWA · Awwwards SOTD

Discipline

Spatial Identity

Real-time identity surface — GPU shading pipeline.
fig. 01Real-time identity surface — GPU shading pipeline.
Logo motion grammar.
fig. 02Logo motion grammar.
Editorial type system.
fig. 03Editorial type system.
Launch film — frame study.
fig. 04Launch film — frame study.

/ Credits

Creative DirectionRECTO Studio
WebGL EngineeringM. Halvorsen
Motion DesignI. Castellanos
Sound DesignField Rec.
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