Brand Identity for Hyundai Card
Fixed details, flexible worlds: Hyundai Card builds a system around choice.
Wolff Olins developed a design ethos and identity system for Hyundai Card, connecting its financial products with a wider programme of cultural spaces and experiences. Research in Seoul included time with employees and customers, interviews with young Koreans and a city tour led by a local historian. The resulting idea, Architect of Change, describes the company’s role in creating new possibilities for people to choose from. The design system balances a fixed core, including logo placement and typography, with flexible elements that give individual cards their own character. For the M, X and Z entry cards, bright colour and generative repetition connect the visual language to repeat rewards. Modular packaging unifies the range, using a protective layer that peels away to reveal each card. Initially conceived as an internal ethos, Architect of Change also appeared on the packaging.
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- A fixed core of logo placement and typography provides consistency while flexible elements distinguish individual cards. The system replaces the practice of designing every new card from scratch.
- The M, X and Z cards connect a product feature to a visual behaviour: repeat rewards are expressed through bright colour and generative repetition.
- Modular packaging holds the range together, while a peel-away protective layer gives each card its own reveal.
- Architect of Change began as an internal design ethos and moved onto packaging, linking the organising idea to a customer-facing application.
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