Motiva rebranding: black brochure cover and a spread reading Legacy Brought to Life

Year

2024

Role

Sole Designer

Scope

Branding | Identity | Print | Web design

Motiva Rebranding

A visual rebrand repositioning Motiva as a luxury legacy brand across print and digital.

Year

2024

Role

Sole Designer

Scope

Branding | Identity | Print | Web design

Motiva Rebranding

A visual rebrand repositioning Motiva as a luxury legacy brand across print and digital.

Motiva art print with a red house-shaped figure and an eye, on a white plaster wall

What is Motiva?

Motiva brings words to life through collectible artworks built from quotes, names and stories. Each piece combines image, typography and motion, revealing hidden words through an enigmatic grid of letters. The product sits between art, technology, memory and luxury gifting, designed to preserve legacy in a lasting visual form.

Close-up of a Motiva framed canvas in a dark wooden frame

Brand Shift

Motiva’s logo and type system were originally created by Pentagram and remained as the foundation. Around them, I rebuilt the brand’s visual world, shifting it from colorful gradients and an expressive, art-driven direction toward a quieter luxury language across art direction, image treatment, the printed catalog, website experience and supporting materials.

Motiva brochure spread with layered typography: Legacy Brought to Life

The new language was defined through restraint, sharper layouts, a quieter color palette, generous spacing and a more editorial rhythm.

Motiva brochure spread introducing the brand with black and white photography
Motiva catalogue spreads with typographic portraits, including Warren Buffett
Motiva brochure page titled Featured Works
A woman in red viewing a Motiva typographic portrait of Albert Einstein in a gallery

A quieter, heavier and more luxurious brand world for a product built around words, memory and legacy.