ICFF Unveils New Visual Identity
Branding campaign supports new marketing initiatives in 2024
International Contemporary Furniture Fair (ICFF), North America’s premier contemporary design fair to be held May 19-21, 2024 at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center, has unveiled a new campaign designed to highlight ICFFâs marketing evolution under the direction of Odile Hainaut and Claire Pijoulat. The strategy includes solidifying ICFFâs role as a business accelerator; transforming the brand into a 365-day-a-year platform; and clarifying its objective of being at the center of design culture, community, and commerce.
âWe want to shift away from a more corporate identity to mark a new chapter for ICFF. By reimagining the brandâs core, we are unveiling a fresh look, positioning the show as the leading North American contemporary design fair at the forefront of the industry. Our goal is to inspire, engage, and support design companies and enable success. This direction affirms our commitment to design excellence beyond the show and infuses an energy and creativity that speaks to emerging audiences,â says ICFF Brand Directors Odile Hainaut and Claire Pijoulat.
To translate this strategy into visual form, the ICFF team looked to award-winning creative agency forceMAJEURE to develop a new ICFF brand identity. With its dramatic art direction and eye-catching creativity, the campaign incorporates a unique approach for the brand, which celebrates its 35th anniversary in 2024.
The rebrand reflects the spirit and vitality of New York City. A grid system underpins the visual languageâlike building blocksâallowing new elements such as color and images to be added, moved, and transformed as desired. The distinctive logo, which remains in the previous palette of black and white, is now comprised of a solid, heavy wordmark juxtaposed with a lighter, supportive typeface.
âICFF needed a visual identity that felt more distinctive and one that could provide the flexibility to amplify the various individual expressions that we support. From brand strategy to logotype, colors, typeface, and navigation, the goal was to make this repositioning function across all mediums, from social media to the website to the show itself,â states the forceMAJEURE team.
In changing the perception of the visual identity, the team at forceMAJEURE redesigned a stark and restrictive logo of a black square and four letters and added color to represent each distinct ICFF feature with strong identities: yellow for Wanted (forceMAJEURE designed its visual identity), green for Oasis (which focuses on sustainability), and blue for the new Bespoke area (which centers around high-end craftsmanship), with plans to add more in the future. Color brings a sense of excitement and warmth to a brand that is repositioning itself, injecting it with a newfound energy.
The forceMAJEURE team continues, âOur vision for ICFF is highly connected to New York City, its home. The city truly embodies everything the brand communicates. It is bold and universally recognized. It is international. It is a portal to the U.S. market, where dreams are accelerated, and inspiration is plentiful. Taking a birds-eye view of the city and its iconic grid, we see large blocks from the avenues of buildings and observe an infinite sense of modularity. The elevated new logo embodies the functional and emotional allure of ICFF, evoking confidence and innovation but also creative possibilities.â
ICFFâs new graphic identity will be implemented across all platforms in the coming weeks.
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Sunday, May 19: 10AM-6PM
Monday, May 20: 10AM-6PM
Tuesday, May 21: 10AM-5PM
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About ICFFÂ
The International Contemporary Furniture Fair (ICFF) is North Americaâs leading global platform for contemporary furnishing design. With its emphasis on original and sustainable design, ICFF presents exhibitors of furniture (indoor and outdoor), lighting, seating, carpet and flooring, wallcoverings, materials, and kitchen and bath to an audience of architects, interior designers, retailers, distributors, developers, and press. ICFF is owned by Emerald.
About EmeraldÂ
Emerald is a leader in building dynamic, market-driven business-to-business platforms that integrate live events with a broad array of industry insights, digital tools, and data-focused solutions to create uniquely rich experiences. As true partners, we at Emerald strive to build our customersâ businesses by creating opportunities that inspire, amaze, and deliver breakthrough results. With over 140 events each year, our teams are creators and connectors who are thoroughly immersed in the industries we serve and committed to supporting the communities in which we operate. For more information, please visit www.emeraldx.com.
