First

Up & first to market. Inspired by lightness and the effortless rise of a balloon.

United States2025Tech & Comms

Brand identity for a B2B startup reimagining corporate cold outreach, bringing clarity, colour, and confidence to a market saturated with automation noise.

The client

First LLC

Evolution services

  • Brand FoundationsStrategy, positioning and a complete identity system. The brand built from the ground up.
Green First poster reading Cold Emails Delivered First with a balloon number one
First airship

In a market full of noise, be the message worth opening.

B2B cold outreach is a sea of automation and templates. First set out to reimagine it, and to do that the brand had to feel human where everything around it feels robotic. Clarity instead of clutter. Warmth instead of scripts.

Up and first.

We built the idea around a balloon: lightness, movement, the effortless rise above the crowd. A system that lifts, in look and in language, and lands the name in a single gesture. This brand doesn't push. It lifts. It floats. It leads.

First Flat Billboard
First Drinks
Open green First box printed inside with No more empty inboxes

Light on its feet, precise in its voice.

A 3D logotype with a floating aesthetic, a vibrant palette built on gradients, and a visual language of motion and momentum. Paired with a tone of voice that keeps it simple and exact, so the lightness never reads as lightweight.

Business Cards
First Tapes
First Mails

The first message worth opening.

First launched with a motion identity and a way of speaking that feel effortlessly clear, direct, and unmistakably first.

The people behind the project

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The people

behind the

project

Marco Gabanelli

Creative Direction & Visual Design

Nicola Pezzotti

Art Direction & Visual Design

Liana Bonanno

Motion Visual Design

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