The Brief 

Established in late 2001, Air Astana is Kazakhstan’s national carrier and over the last number of years, Inflight Dublin has developed a close working relationship with them as providers of their IFE. In 2016, they felt their inflight guide: KCTV was due a re-vamp and tasked us with the redesign, with one goal in mind: make it stand out.

The Project 

The team at Air Astana placed their trust in us at Inflight Dublin and afforded us full creative input. We began with a redesign of the front cover, which we decided should be impactful, modern and stylish, but with enough open-space to accommodate three languages. We developed an iconography set for the magazine to indicate the different sub-sections, which we employed in a subtle way throughout.

We mixed editorial pieces on Hollywood movies and actors with local and International musicians, alongside the key information of the IFE for passengers, in a bid to create a more engaging read, rather than just an information listing.

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The Brief

With a tight deadline of just one month, RwandAir asked us to develop a safety video for the delivery of their new Airbus A330.

The Project

The challenge was to form a concept that could be designed and animated within the short timeframe, while keeping the style in-line with RwandAir’s brand and tone of voice. We went through an extensive, concept development phase, exploring multiple avenues before arriving at the idea to base the video around an animated safety card. With this idea in mind, we fixed our design on clear illustrations, like those found in safety cards.

In tandem with this, we constructed a script that would cover and meet the necessary safety information and requirements of the various aviation safety authorities.

Concept Development & Storyboarding

The challenge was to come up with a concept and aesthetic that could be designed and animated within the short timeframe, while keeping the style in line with RwandAir’s brand and tone of voice.
We went through an extensive concept development phase, exploring multiple avenues before arriving at the idea to base the video around an animated safety card. This concept helped define our design exploration to clean illustrations similar to those found in safety cards.
In tandem with this, we developed a script that would cover the necessary safety information and meet the requirements of the various aviation safety authorities.

Production

As the production timeline was very tight, our designers worked with the animation team, immediately passing-off finished assets to be animated. In this manner, it enabled us to hit our deadline, even with some time to spare.

The Brief

Norwegian Air Shuttle approached us looking for a suite of new bumper videos, bumpers are short five – ten second videos that play before a TV show or movie.

The Project

Norwegian Airlines has a distinct brand and company ethos that we needed to follow. This was challenging because we had to stick closely to their imagery style.

We pitched several ideas to them and their favourite was a mixture of vector-illustration and footage.

The Brief

Frequent Flyers Destinations is a premium lifestyle magazine for business and leisure travellers. Available in airports, it has an editorial focus on air travel and frequent flyer topics such as destinations, culture and travel. The magazine’s primary aim is to enhance a frequent passengers’ airport experience.

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The Project

In November 2016, Inflight Dublin was approached by Airguide to redesign their existing publication, with a marked emphasis on look and feel, further enhanced by a direct focus on quality travel-based editorial.

Inflight Dublin completely overhauled the design and layout of the entire magazine in a bid to create a modern, engaging user experience, while showcasing the editorial content. Our main focus was on typography and a sympathetic use of space within the layouts. We also enhanced the editorial flow of the publication through a more coherent pagination structure. This was further improved by a careful use of imagery that complimented the design.

Lastly, we helped Airguide to engage with advertisers by designing a comprehensive media-kit. This included creating a range of subscription and in-house advertisements for the magazine, which brought Frequent Flyers Destinations in-line with competing lifestyle magazines.

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The Brief

Everhub™ is a wireless inflight entertainment and revenue-generating software solution. Our aim was to develop and design a new brand, user interface, and communication channel for our own wireless IFE product. The challenge was to reflect, through the brand language, the wide range of passenger services available in one innovative application and a key feature of this was to communicate to the airlines the potential for revenue generation, through the end user features.

Brand Identity & Language

‘A hub of activity which is always on, ready to entertain, inform and impress’ was our guiding principle when developing Everhub’s brand identity. We combined the ideas of wireless, connectivity and centralised activity into a modern logo mark and typeface. We extended this sense of innovation and product complexity into Everhub’s brand language, using a bold gradient colour pallet and a connected-points background texture. Four tailor-made linear icons were designed, each highlighting the essential features of the Everhub™ application and with our brand toolkit in place, we rolled it out across the communication channels.

UX/UI

We incorporated the new branding into Everhub’s UI using colour, type and a linear style of iconography. Users can easily navigate through the range of services by accessing four menus: Discover, Entertainment, Inflight and Destination services.

Brand Communications

As part of the Everhub™ product launch, our design team created the following marketing channels and materials:

• Website
• Motion Graphics
• Brochure
• Print and digital advertisements

Each piece of communication adapted parts of the brand, by focusing on the four key elements: Discover, Entertainment, Inflight and Destination services. Which delivered a clear, simple, consistent and affective message.

The Brief 

We were invited to re-design the eight-page inflight section of RwandAir’s 124 page on-board magazine: “Inzozi”, available on each aircraft in their fleet.

The Project

Our challenge was to design eight pages of inflight content that matched the current brand guidelines of “Inzozi”. While showcasing the range of on board entertainment, from the latest Hollywood blockbusters to the most anticipated TV shows.

The design scheme was restricted by the requirement of space for two languages; English and French as well as several key pieces of information: language availability, rating, synopsis and which planes this content is available on.

We wished to create a layout that knitted seamlessly with Inzozi’s design ethos and one which allowed the reader to clearly navigate through the Movie, TV, Audio and Game content with ease, by placing emphasis on the latest releases with the use of highlight pages and boxes.