Iron Graphic · 2024

CDU Hamburg Brand Identity

by Politikwerft Designagentur

A' Design Award 2024 in Graphic
CLIENT: CDU Hamburg
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About CDU Hamburg Brand Identity

CDU Hamburg is a brand identity developed for a regional political party in Hamburg, Germany. The identity is based on a modular structure that supports a uniform visual language across print and digital media. The word and figurative mark joins the letters CDU with the Hamburg symbol, a castle with three towers and two stars, on a dark blue circular carrier surface. The figurative mark is also used on its own, and the carrier surface can be filled with images and colors. Responsive websites were created for all organizational units.

About the A' Design Award

CDU Hamburg Brand Identity is an Iron A' Design Award winner, a prestigious recognition granted to good designs that meet the professional and industrial requirements expected from well-designed creations. Iron winners demonstrate great skill, high specialization, expert understanding, and creative capacity of their creators. CDU Hamburg Brand Identity is expected to be a highly regarded, admired, and cherished creation that is practical and innovative. This Iron A' Design Award-winning design integrates industry best practices and has competent technical characteristics linked with know-how and talent. CDU Hamburg Brand Identity is respected for its thoroughness and is designed to provide quality of life improvements that help make the world a better place.

Press Kit

Unique Properties: Development of a new visual identity for the German Party CDU Hamburg. The brand relaunch has given the party a new image. It's fresh, open and communicative instead of monotonous, outdated and expressionless. The relaunch affected the entire identity: uniform visual language, responsive websites for all organizational units and contemporary design elements. In this way, the bond with the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg and its citizens should be better emphasized.
Dimensions & Packaging: The size of the brand logo is not uniformly stipulated, and the size can be set by itself according to the actual media.
Tags: Graphics, Illustration, Visual Communication Design, Brand Design
Production Technology: The word and figurative mark of the Hamburg CDU, commonly known as the logo, consists of the word mark CDU and the figurative mark Hamburg symbol.
The elements combine with the figurative mark on a dark blue circular carrier surface to form the word-figurative mark.
The Hamburg symbol shows a castle with 3 towers. The middle tower should symbolize the medieval Mariendom, the two stars on the outer towers, so-called Mariensterne, after St. Mary, the patron saint of the city in the Middle Ages.
The figurative mark is also used on its own. The logo can be individually filled with images and colors as a design element.
Design Challenge: The client wanted to express too much content, but often too much information will disturb the key information. Finally, we persuaded the party representatives to mainly use abstract shield to express the protection attribute of their brand image.
Research: We researched the background of the party, the nature of the city society, the scope of the party's main topics, and the culture of the party, which we integrated into the brand image.
Inspiration: The dynamic and modular new brand identity for the CDU Hamburg now gives the party a new image - fresh, open and communicative instead of monotonous, outdated and expressionless. The aim is: How do we shape a modern, social, bourgeois party of the future? The party must speak about tomorrow from today and not from today about yesterday. The new design aroused curiosity and once again presented the party as a cohesive entity that can stand for a modern and liberal city party.
Project Duration: The project started in April 2022 in Hamburg and finished June 2023.
Operation Flow: The relaunched brand identity lets people see its party attributes immediately, so that playing a very good brand communication effect.