In 2019 we were commissioned to design the corporate identity of Skawina – a small town and municipality at the outskirts of Kraków.

The project was supposed to be based on the municipal Coat of Arms, however, its graphic form adopted in 1994 aroused many doubts. Thus, prior to beginning work on the CID project, the proper heraldic analysis of the historic symbol was carried out, based on which it was thoroughly redesigned.

In 2020 the new project of the Coat of Arms, the municipal seal and flag of Skawina was approved by the Heraldic Registry (part of the Ministry of Interior and Administration) and adopted for use by the resolution of the City Council. It became the foundation for the Corporate Identity System.

The main inspiration for depicting Skawina was the historical illustration showing a panorama of Kraków, Kazimierz and Skawina from the 15th century Hartmann Schedel's Weltchronik, or Chronicle of the World.

A town among the hills depicted there neighbouring the Royal Capital brought us thought, that a good neighbourhood is an important element of Skawina’s identity and that we shouldn't be afraid of the expression “small town” – as it actually has its many benefits such as peace and quiet, close community and small distances. At the same time, there is good infrastructure, easy access to a big city and a huge potential for development.

Skawina is – in a good way – a common small town. Good neighbours, easy access to everywhere, nice school, reasonable investment. We felt like this project should also be simple, easy to understand and to use. That is why we chose the most common typefaces: Arial and Times New Roman, and the simplest, easy-to-use layouts, illustrations and icons.

Dehonians – The Priests of the Sacred Heart of Jesus (also known as SCJs, the initials that stand for Sacerdotum Cordis Jesu, the congregation’s name in Latin) is a Roman Catholic religious congregation of priests and brothers founded in 1878 in Saint-Quentin by Léon Dehon.

During the work on organising their communication, Dehonians decided to develop a professional and uniform corporate identity for their congregation, and contacted Studio Otwarte for the brand work. “Corporate” is exactly the right word here, as Dehonians are a large congregation, actively engaged in international missionary work, with over 41 chapters around the world.

There were several versions of Congregation’s coat of arms used at the same time, some of them very interesting. What was missing, however, was a single official version based on historically correct symbols. In cooperation with a historian Fr. Józef Marecki, PhD and Centro Studi Dehoniani in Rome, we studied the history and genesis of this symbol very closely. We took our inspiration for the contemporary styling of the coat of arms from the stained glass in a religious house in Germany. Taking it as a basis and including necessary heraldic corrections, we created the final official version to be used commonly by the whole congregation, alongside their non-official but very popular symbol – the Dehonian Cross.

Branding work included complex key visual and graphic design of materials, for both official and daily communication, colour scheme, typography and layout constants based on the unified grid.

The project also featured the development of an extensive website, or rather two different web pages: for external and internal communication.The first one addressed to priests, brothers, the faithful and anyone interested in the life of the religious community, is an official unified medium of the congregation and provides a base for the development of websites dedicated to single provinces.The second one is a major forum for communication within the congregation, including various functions within different levels of access.

In both, official and promotional use, we decided to use Rubik (designed by Philipp Hubert and Sebastian Fischer) in view of its availability around the world and its multi-language extensions. The seriffed caps used for the stamp and the motto Adveniat regnum tuum (“May your kingdom come”) underneath the coat of arms is Mercury.

The project is currently waiting for acceptance from the Congregation. Read and see more on Studio Otwarte’s website.

In all of its various meanings Earth was the main theme of 29th Jewish Culture Festival in Krakow, Poland.

Just like in the past seven years, Studio Otwarte had the opportunity to create the complete visual identity of this event. Metallic gold, characteristic for the festival’s identity, evolved into copper, and the key visual was composed of everything that’s associated with earth. Or the Earth.

We used both Glosa Display and Suisse Int’l for the communication design.

UKO is an online platform that supports innovation and service design. It’s a set of functional modules which adapt to the company’s workflow and allow teams to collaborate.

The project includes the logo and visual identity for the platform, based on simple colourful geometric shapes. Through a series of static and animated illustrations, we show how UKO provides easy and effective tools to organise, share, connect and resolve problems.

In the communication we used Euclid Circular A to cooperate with the brand’s illustrations and overall feeling.

Fabrado is a professional cloud solution, advertised under the slogan “next-generation private cloud”. Fabrado supports private and hybrid cloud management and combines the advantages of both while eliminating their disadvantages.

Simplicity is the essence of the product. Management, backup, moving virtual machines between distant locations becomes perfectly simple and can be done in just a few clicks.

For both the communication and the interface the designers of Studio Otwarte used Maison Neue Extended. Design & art direction by Tomek Jurecki, Julek Wierzchowski. Web design by Maciej Mach.