Brand & Communications · 2021 Independent

Kalos Mirror, Business Card & Flyers

A minimal print set for Kalos Mirror, built around a soft pink palette to give the brand an immediately female-friendly feel.

Role
Print & identity design
Tools
Illustrator
Client
Kalos Mirror
Deliverable
Business cards & flyers
Kalos Mirror business card, front and back
The brief

Minimal, and unmistakably for women.

Designed in January 2021, the set followed a clear client brief: keep it minimal, and lean on a pink palette so the brand reads as female-friendly from the first glance. The challenge with minimalism is that there's nowhere to hide, so the work went into spacing, type and one confident colour rather than decoration.

The mark

The wordmark is a soft script set on the diagonal, so the name itself feels light and personal. The frame around it is built from two squares, one sitting flat and one turned on its point, overlapped into an eight-sided shape that reads as a mirror.

That geometry is the idea in miniature. A mirror does not return one fixed reflection, and the overlapping facets stand for the many identities a woman might see when she looks. The mark is meant to hold all of them at once, and to feel empowering rather than prescriptive.

A square
Turned on its point
An eight-sided mirror
The system

One palette, one mark, applied the same way on every surface so the card, the flyer and the wider identity read as a single brand.

The front of the card carries bilingual details in English and Chinese, so the layout had to stay calm while holding two scripts at once. Generous margins and a clear hierarchy keep it legible in both, while the back is kept to just the logo and its English tagline, Her Kaleidoscope. The same restraint carries into the Equality flyer series, where the pink-led system stretches comfortably into editorial print.

Typeface
Kalos Mirror
ABCDEFGHIJKLM
nopqrstuvwxyz
0123456789
Dancing Script
Wordmark & script accents, light, personal, hand-set on the diagonal
Palette, sampled from the card
Soft Rose
#F8C0B8
Blush
#FBE4E0
White
#FFFFFF
Ink
#0F0E0C
The cards
Business card front, bilingual name and title
Front, bilingual details
Business card back, Kalos Mirror logo and tagline
Back, logo & tagline
In context
Business card held in hand
Business cards on a rose-petal flat lay
Flyer series, Equality
Equality flyer and poster series for Kalos Mirror

A two-cover Equality flyer series carrying the same minimal, pink-led system into editorial print. Tap any image to enlarge.

The takeaway

Restraint is a brief in itself. With one colour and a lot of white space, the perception work happens before a single word is read, which is exactly what the client wanted.

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