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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