Selected Work
Personal brand2025

Opeyemi Ogunniyi

From an existing company identity to a distinctive personal brand.

Services
  • Positioning
  • Brand Strategy
  • Visual Identity
Outcome

Opeyemi moved from operating primarily under a company identity to having a distinct personal brand capable of carrying his ideas, expertise, and public authority.

Challenge

Everything Opeyemi had built publicly pointed back to his holding company. The company had a name, a look, and a market position. He had none of those things in his own right.

That is a quiet but expensive problem. Ideas, expertise, and public authority do not compound under a corporate entity the way they compound under a person. Every talk, every post, and every introduction was building equity in the wrong asset.

Strategic thinking

We separated the two identities before we designed anything. The company sells outcomes. The person carries a point of view. Those are different jobs and they need different platforms.

So the work started with the point of view: what Opeyemi actually believes about the work he does, and what he is willing to be known for over a decade rather than a quarter.

Solution

A positioning line and narrative that state his conviction plainly, then an identity system built to carry it: the OO infinity monogram, a disciplined typographic voice, and a restrained black-and-white system that works from a business card to a stage backdrop.

Applications were designed for how he actually shows up: speaking, writing, apparel, and digital surfaces.

Result

Opeyemi now has a personal brand that stands on its own, distinct from the holding company but coherent with it. His ideas accrue to him.

— The work

The full visual breakdown for Opeyemi Ogunniyi (identity, type, colour, and applications) is documented on Behance.

View Opeyemi Ogunniyi on Behance

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