Suez

  • Essentails: A rich and sophisticated Parisian woman vacations to Africa for a grand tour. Experience is her luxury. The hospitality of the desert community and the reality of their lives has a profound effect. On return the woman expresses the her experience of the essentials of life by foregoing shoes for the rest of her time.

  • I imagined this brief story in order to communicate the roots of a new brand for Suez Lyonaise des Eaux.

    This French utilities company is deeply attached to its history making contribution to humanity; the Suez canal, leaving a deep mark on the Group’s corporate culture.

    It was important that a new identity should embrace this heritage and also be based on delivering the essentials of life: water, energy, communications and waste services.

  • The logotype was designed to be both hi-tech and primitive.
    Authoritive, but approachable.
    21st century but alluding to the origins of man.