Arcform
A modular arch system for an architecture practice, drawn from its own floor plans.
Identity
2026
Overview
Arcform is a concept for a practice that designs quiet civic buildings. The identity borrows its geometry from the arch, the oldest structural idea there is.
Project
Concept, self-initiated
Sector
Architecture practice
Year
2026
Disciplines
Identity
Services
Visual identity, Stationery, Signage system
The challenge.
Architecture identities often look like each other: thin type, lots of white. Arcform needed restraint without disappearing.
Objectives
01
A modular mark drawn from the practice’s own plans
02
Stationery that feels like a well-made object
03
Signage that works at building scale
Strategy
Three nested arches form the mark and also the grid for every layout. The same proportions scale from a business card to a façade.
Exploration and system.
We tested columns, vaults and floor-plan fragments. The arch won because it reads at any size and carries meaning without explanation.
Type
Inter in two weights only, with generous tracking on small caps-free labels.
Limestone
#EAEAEA
Ink
#141414
Copper
#5B6B4E
The outcome.
A mark, a layout grid and a signage kit that the practice can extend to every new building without returning to the studio.
More work, from the same desk.
About this project.
What a concept project is, and what it means for yours.