Sector: Environmental

Variloom

↳ Challenge

Variloom emerged from Moon Creative Lab—an innovation studio within Japan-based global trading and investment company Mitsui—with an ambitious goal: to reinvent circularity for the textile and apparel industries.

At the center is a patent-pending 3D printing system and bio-based filament designed for ultra-efficient fabrication of fully recyclable, performance-grade textiles.

Landscape was engaged to define the foundational elements of the brand—including its name, identity, and messaging—as the team prepared to bring this next-generation platform out of stealth mode.

 

↳ Opportunity

Through an expansive naming exploration, we arrived at the name Variloom—a trademarkable, globally viable name that stands for freeform versatility, and applies the idea of weaving to 3D fabrication. The name captures the system’s promise: advanced customization, minimal waste, and fully recyclable fabrics, beyond the limits of conventional production.

We crafted concise messaging that signals Variloom’s position at the intersection of materiality, creativity, and circularity. The platform’s benefits—print-to-shape flexibility, customizable and responsible material usage, reduced waste, lead times, and on-demand production—offer apparel manufacturers a radical alternative to traditional methods.

The identity system balances a refined, natural feel with a technological edge—reflecting the unique material qualities of the printed fabrics. We designed a custom wordmark, a restrained color palette, and soft, modular design elements that suggest tactility and movement. An MVP landing page was designed to introduce the brand, drive interest and engagement from early-stage partners and investors in the category.

 

↳ Outcome

Variloom launched as a standout player in circular material fabrication, gaining industry attention by winning the ISPO 2024 Award in collaboration with global surfwear brand Rip Curl. The product features a 3D-printed waistband for water stability, integrated ventilation panels for comfort, and a recyclable blend of bio-based plastics and wool for durability and end-of-life recovery.

As brands seek solutions that balance performance, customization while advancing sustainability, Variloom sets a new standard, inspiring circularity in form and function.

 

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www.variloom.com

Honoree in 2025 Fast Company 
Design by Innovation Awards
Multiple ISPO 2024 Awards

Journ

↳ Challenge

Journ’s founders built a skincare line grounded in natural ingredients, diverse skin-tones, and global inspiration. After finding initial success they prepared to launch a broader range of products and a corresponding product architecture to help their community find the products best suited for their individual needs. Landscape was appointed to help define this product system as well as further express the sustainability, sensory richness, and global stories associated with their products.

 

↳ Opportunity

Translate their philosophy into a brand world as textured and immersive as the formulations themselves. Drawing from the founders’ travels and lived experiences, we crafted an identity system that invites touch, evokes memory, and honors ritual — positioning skincare not as routine, but as a moment worth savoring. A distinct palette distinguishes not only the brand but also the usage of each formulation. Typography evokes both a calligraphic, South Asian influence and a transparent, understated humility – further offering invitation to broadest community.

The system incorporates comprehensive updates beyond the core design system. A tactile packaging approach in rich, earthy tones rewards close attention. An ecommerce website and social presence were designed for sensory, genuine storytelling for both brand messaging and UGC (user generated content) championing Journ’s audience. Journ’s messaging framework is anchored by a single idea — Joy in Ritual — supported by original poetry written for each product in the lineup.

 

↳ Outcome

The system supports a stand out offering and vision with an equally emotive design language and comprehensive attention to detail. Ultimately, Journ’s intentions are mirrored by their current and potential customers’ impressions of the brand.

Antora

↳ Challenge

Antora’s founders set out to create a venture that would offer the greatest leverage toward mitigating climate change. The solution lay in tackling manufacturing—the single-largest global emissions driver responsible for 30% of the world’s CO₂ output.

Backed by investors like Breakthrough Energy, Decarbonization Partners, and Lowercarbon Capital, Antora manufactures thermal battery systems to convert intermittent renewables into always-on industrial heat and power.

As the company prepared to scale commercially, Landscape was engaged to help position Antora as a key player in industrial decarbonization.

 

↳ Opportunity

Through in-depth interviews and category research, we identified the signals necessary  to convey a modern industrial brand that communicates Antora’s business value to enterprise customers with varying priorities, from cost and performance considerations to emissions reduction.

Together, we defined strategic messaging that frames Antora’s capabilities as the standard for zero-emission industrial heat and power, supported by value propositions that highlight the system’s advantages over the status quo of using fossil fuels or natural gas.

Antora is now preparing to deploy large-scale commercial installations, supported by a brand and site that communicates the company’s value, advantages, and expertise with clarity and positivity. The evolved brand system features bold, industrial typography paired with a color palette inspired by natural utility—wind, sun, and earth. Detailed, extensible renders and custom animations highlight the simplicity and scalability of Antora’s energy storage solution, from individual carbon blocks to industrial-size installations.

A suite of ownable graphic devices inspired by Antora’s logo motifs serves as visual accents throughout the digital experience. Dynamic photography captures the deployment of Antora’s systems in industrial settings, keeping people front and center while emphasizing the scale of the installations.

 

↳ Outcome

The evolved brand and site position the company as a category leader, helping industrial operators predictably cut emissions while driving profitable growth simultaneously supporting Antora’s mission to stop climate change and power global industry.

 

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Time: America’s Top Greentech Companies
Time: The Best Inventions of 2023
MIT Technology Review

Peak Energy

Accelerating Awareness for Clean Energy Storage

 

↳ Challenge

Peak Energy is the first American venture to advance globally proven Sodium-Ion battery systems as the low-cost, giga-scale storage standard for the new era of renewable energy.

Backed by Eclipse Ventures, Xora Innovation, and TDK Ventures, the company was preparing to come out of stealth mode and needed a new brand and site to drive awareness.

 

↳ Opportunity

Together with their leadership, Landscape identified a category-leading brand position centered on Sodium-Ion’s superior performance, reliability, and scalability as energy storage medium.

The updated design system showcases a logo characterized by angled cuts, evoking forward momentum and progressive energy, complemented by a vibrant orange palette. Taking cues from Peak’s technological advancements, the typographic system signals precision and efficiency by adopting a technical sans-serif typeface with the addition of bold infographics that deliver complex information with striking clarity and impact.

 

↳ Outcome

Peak Energy is preparing to deploy large-scale energy storage systems to leading power producers and utilities, supported by a brand and site that establish Peak’s as a crucial player in our country’s transition towards clean energy and a resilient grid.

 

↳ Named to The Information’s 50 Most Promising Startups of 2024
↳ Time’s Top 100 CEO’s 2025

Solugen

Driving Demand for a Bio-Based Manufacturing Leader

 

↳ Challenge

Solugen, a rapidly scaling $200M Series D climate technology company is revolutionizing everyday chemicals through synthetic biology. The company needed to showcase its first-of-a-kind Bioforge™ platform and drive demand for its growing range of solutions across multiple industries, including agriculture, energy, water treatment, and personal care.

 

↳ Opportunity

Landscape collaborated with their team in identifying strategic opportunities across the brand’s visual system and digital storytelling to better educate and engage customers, policymakers, and talent and while affirming Solugen’s position as climate technology category leader.
A guiding principle for the evolution was to signal the commercial promise of its novel solutions by balancing scientific and technical precision with real-world value. We crafted a digital space that engages, educates, and converts.

 

↳ Outcome

The evolved brand and digital platform effectively positions Solugen as a forward-thinking, science-driven leader and reliable business partner in this critical new category. Since the launch, Solugen initiated new innovation partnerships, broke ground on a new state-of-the-art biomanufacturing facility, and secured commitment for a $213.6M DOE loan guarantee to bolster U.S. Leadership in Green Manufacturing.

Vessel

Vessel™ is a collective of changemakers fighting for universal water access to close our nation’s water gap.

Currently, over 2 million people in all 50 states lack reliable running water, basic indoor plumbing, and safe sanitation systems. These challenges disproportionately affect communities of color, costing the U.S. economy up to $8.58 billion annually. Despite substantial investments in global clean water initiatives, addressing our domestic crisis requires a more organized effort by the many organizations representing the WASH (Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene) sector at home.

Vessel™, spearheaded by the human rights non-profits DigDeep and Water For People, is the first effort to build a formally aligned domestic WASH sector through a coalition spanning public, private, nonprofit, academic, utility, and philanthropic organizations. The collective endeavors to find solutions through engaging in research, community initiatives, and more effective policymaking.

Landscape worked closely with the leaders of the founding organizations to align on a new name and brand identity that captures and amplifies the coalition’s shared vision.

The distinct wordmark, built around a bold, modern serif to evoke inspiration and approachability, signifies their united cause with two curves joining together, symbolizing forward momentum and a powerful yet fluid alliance.

The new visual system uses an audacious color palette inspired by the collective’s energized optimism and focused action, complemented by engaging typography, photography, and infographics to foster connection with diverse audiences.

Additionally, Landscape helped the new organization’s communication efforts by creating effective design templates across various mediums, including presentations, internal documents, and newsletters.

Ava

Ava, one of California’s largest Community Choice Aggregators, and a public company, is committed to helping communities gain access to clean, affordable energy. Today, Ava delivers power to over 1.7M people and is predicted to generate nearly $25M in savings to these customers during their ‘23-’24 fiscal year.

Ava’s programs make it easier for households, business owners, and cities to lower energy costs, upgrade systems and appliances, and prevent power outages. We worked alongside their team and broader community stakeholders to articulate an evolved brand positioning, name, and identity system that supports rapid growth and signals leadership in the clean energy transition. 

The redesigned brand system guides a wider public towards an approach to energy usage that builds more vibrant and sustainable communities. Ultimately becoming more affordable, cleaner, and healthier for those who switch from traditional utilities. The brand transforms energy from an often overlooked utility into an opportunity to grow and create — a smarter home, a future-proofed business, a city that flourishes.

The previous name, East Bay Community Electric (EBCE), spoke to an authentic origin story and intention but risked alienating customers in their expanding service geographies. The new name, Ava, is about welcoming new customers— from Alameda to the Valley—and offers a more emotive, memorable, and scalable platform from which to foster growth. 

Ava’s new brand overcomes the tropes and stigmas associated with environmentally conscious offerings by avoiding greenwashing or asking their customers to make sacrifices. Rather, the brand evokes a hopeful, inspirational, and accessible near-term reality — embodied by candid photography highlighting relatable narratives and delightful illustrations that unpack otherwise uninteresting or complex topics. A bright, highly differentiated palette within Ava’s category creates distinct signal power – offering a hopeful backdrop to a clear, actionable, and inspiring messaging platform – flexible enough to appeal to residential customers, commercial owners, and municipal partners equally.

Gravity

Driving Demand for Industrial Decarbonization

 

↳ Challenge

Gravity is a SaaS platform helping large-scale enterprises measure, manage, and reduce carbon emissions across complex value chains. Their team was starting to roll out its platform to early-stage customers and needed a brand and site to accelerate market traction for their solution.

 

↳ Opportunity

We partnered with their team to identify an opportunity to position Gravity as a streamlined path toward net zero emissions, helping industrial operators navigate the complexity of emissions management. To stand out in a crowded category full of complicated software, we created a singularly powerful brand identity and digital experience that communicates Gravity’s ease of use, innovative approach, and relevance to a broad range of sectors.
Equal parts sturdy and sophisticated, the visual language is designed to inspire an audience of operators and investors to compete in an planet-positive economy. We created a symbol and wordmark that reflect the gravitational planes found throughout the Earth’s atmosphere. Complemented by a warm color palette and simple typographic system, the brand is brought to life by way of brilliant photography that uses scale to speak to the venture’s bold ambitions.
The website introduced Gravity’s solution to customers and is constructed to help audiences easily navigate the offering and see the value for their business.

 

↳ Outcome

Launched alongside $5 million of funding from Eclipse Ventures, the new brand identity and digital experience supported the acquisition of key customers who are now using Gravity as a critical solution to reduce emissions, for a business- and planet-positive future.

Slé

Transportation accounts for nearly a third of our country’s carbon footprint. In the face of a rapidly warming world, Slé believes that a brighter future starts with the way we move. The app helps people make intentional choices to get from A to B by bringing transparency and connection to our mobility patterns—whether we’re driving a car, taking the train, or riding a bike.

We partnered with Slé to help shape a digital experience and related identity that approach the challenge of climate change with optimism and urgency. Inspired by the small steps that can add up to a big shift, we built a kinetic logo and icon system that celebrate the myriad of different ways that people move. Paired with an electric palette and original lifestyle photography, the visual language positions Slé as a dynamic brand that inspires action.

Slé aggregates a large set of personal data points into a single score that offers actionable guidance for climate-friendly commutes. We defined bespoke interactions and unique, engaging visualizations to communicate this information with clarity to improve understanding and inspire change. Launching soon, we look forward to supporting Slé in their mission to protect our planet, one trip at a time.