ABOUT C37®
Founded in 2014 in Mexico, C37® is the first Latin American design company developing innovation through experiences, brands, products and advanced materials.
Our philosophy is based on multidisciplinary exploration and creation of new business opportunities. We systematize creativity through C37 ® Frameworks merging methodologies from Macro Trend Hunting, Customer strategy, ethnography, marketing & Design Thinking in order for companies to achieve organic, profitable growth by focusing on 03 critical building blocks: an outside-in approach that puts customers first while analyzing competition, creating a differentiated customer experience and providing custom tools for persuasion efforts. To ensure the right execution with our clients team we provide strategic consulting along the process.
The vision of the company is focused on dissolving the lines between science, technology & art to bla bla bla further developing advanced materials from a design perspective while working together with research and technology centers to develop products with commercial value, using emerging technologies. Through our strategic services and material library, we are creating the future, positioning the designer as the guiding thread between science, engineering and design.
Our work has been shown in Mexico, Tokyo, Dubai, Paris, London, Milan, Madrid and New York.
SERVICE BUILDING BLOCKS:
Customer Centricity : Understanding & profiling our client’s customer’s needs and behaviors by developing segmentation profiles turning their pains & gains into a tangible value proposition for companies.
Differentiated Customer Experience Align your marketing and brand strategy with your overarching business objectives and combine hard metrics with creative magic to build a customer-focused brand identity strategy that goes far beyond cosmetic brand communication in order to count with tools for persuasion efforts.
Strategic Consulting: Making execution easy, we get involved with your team in order to guarantee success in the handoff and deployment process.
Design Driven :
Conectando distintas disciplinas desde una perspectiva de diseño en un modelo.
Future Forward :
Diseño prospectivo / preventivo / nuevos recursos.
Technology Obsessed :
Creative science / Crear materiales que mejoran el estilo de vida de las personas.
WHAT DOES C37 MEAN?
Nature by numbers: C37 challenges nature by creating new numbers that push forward alternative formulas. "C37" is an abstraction of the golden angle for the Fibonacci sequence, 137.5º, a representation of strategic growth through parallel efforts.
C37 demands Codes of Practices for parallel growth. Its about building a company that will live forever. Dedication and constant learning as a group, creates a system where each individual’s growth generates a parallel effect in the team. Far ahead of debates between artist and designer, we ask bigger questions about our context, embrace technologies, materials, experimentation and theories by eliminating all the distractions that take importance away from the final product, results.
Codes Of Practice :
Be Resilient: We are a startup company, plans will change faster than weather, we may pivot every 3 months so embrace change, embrace ambiguity, trust your team. Let´s ride this wave!
Be Bold: What we lack in knowledge and experience we make up with audacity, guts, fearlessness and deep seated desire to learn.
Be Proactive : If you are part of the team, make yourself a Ninja. Grow to be your best self, if you don’t know... ask, look for tutorials. You are here to make solutions, not problems.
Be Profesional: Nothing in here is personal. This is not about ego - it's about building things. Feedback is crucial. Getting it is part of your personal growth. You want it to be direct, to the point and completely fluff free. If you can’t handle it from your peers, the market will deliver it loud and clear.
Work Smart: Think big, execute small. 1 month at a time, 1 day at a time, 1 task per Pomodoro. As a team, we have a vision, so let's do what will help us get there.
Be Self-Directed: Understand your objective in a task + Analyze your resources (time-money-team) = Resolve. Ship, don’t wait. The roads are littered with the corpses of perfectionists or self doubters, just do your best, then ask for help.
Be Confident: We polarize on purpose, its okay if we are presenting ourselves as the first material development studio in Latin America, because we are and we will be the best. We must be known for ONE thing, otherwise we will be known for nothing. Trust the C37 journey.
Be Optimistic: So stay stupid, any smart person understands that what we want to do may seem impossible and yet we have to be clueless enough to not know how difficult this will be, understand that success wont come easily, it is about trial and error.
Be a Ninja, A-Player or Superstar : Forget about trying to iron your weaknesses. Don’t try to get good at stuff you totally suck at, all you will become is mediocre or "decent." We need you to be completely awesome at the stuff you’re already good at or challenged at a certain project or area. The success of C37 depends entirely on all of the players.
Be Focused: Stay Mindful. Before tackling your To Do List, get your mindset on point. Mental preparation is an undervalued action in success. Slow your energy down and listen to this podcast on your smartphone on your way to work each week. This time is not wasted. You got everything it takes to thrive! We believe in you.
The unexplored is our limit.
BRAND POSSITION
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We’re in the business of selling new materials through consultancy / R&D.
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Great materials exists at the intersection of beauty, function and understanding of our surroundings.
We are creating the future.
Every aspect of the C37 system embodies who we are as a company and what we offer— unique materials and possibilities for the industry.
C37 is specialized in research and development of alternative materials, connecting industrial design with science and engineering. It focuses on challenging existing materials in order to discover new manufacturing opportunities. We encourage transnational corporations to recycle and reinterpret their waste materials in order to transform them into new materials available for the industry. C37 is building a world where materials respond and adapt to technical, productive and aesthetic needs, reinventing the role of the designer in the industry as a supplier of possibilities.
Parallel growth
C37 is an abstraction of the golden angle for the Fibonacci sequence, 137.5º, a representation of growth through parallel efforts. C37 demands dedication and constant learning as a group, creating a work system where each individual’s growth generates a parallel effect in the team. Far ahead of debates between artist and designer, we embrace all the technologies, materials and techniques we discover, unhindered by specialities or hierarchies that seek divisions. C37 creates a new future by eliminating all the distractions that take importance away from the final product, results.
VALUE PROPOSITION
We push the boundaries of creativity every day. Our Material Development Service helps companies build smart businesses through new product —driven by innovation and design—that deliver powerful products, services and experiences to a highly selective audience. Our brands cater to everyone from the country’s most affluent individuals to beauty and fashion enthusiasts, from design experts to design devotees.
Whether it’s our beautifully produced magazines, our industry events and conferences, or our material library and consulting services, SANDOW informs, inspires and engages discerning consumers and businesses in design, beauty, fashion and luxury.
C37 provides a unique--- build firmly on our belief that developing new and recycled materials is essential to good design.
DESIGN PHILOSOPHY
Great materials are thoughtful,
and require time, energy, and understanding. It values knowledge, embodies a clear vision for the future, and it builds after multidisciplinary.
GOOD DESIGN DISTILLS COMPLEX THOUGHTS
into simple, honest expressions. It transforms powerful ideas into objects and experiences that can be seen, felt, remembered, and shared.
great materials are THE FOUNDATION for a BEAUTIFUL LIFE,
beautiful products and a beautiful planet. In a well-designed material, nothing is random. Each element of the formula is carefully selected to create the best material —creating the perfect material for beautiful products.
BRAND VALUES
Our values make us unique and future forward.
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value 3
CORE BENEFITS
C37 materials are
Benefit 1
Benefit 2
Benefit 3
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VOICE AND TONE
The words and tone we use gives personality and represent to who we are.
VISUAL IDENTITY
VISUAL IDENTITY
The visual brand is inspiring and confident. It conveys simplicity and invites interaction. It is the design experience, made visual.
LOGOTYPE
The C37 logotype is the official symbol for the studio. It is used only in the introduction of any C37 communication, and not in the body or conclusion.
The "7" logomark is the informal and decorative symbol. It may be used whenever the identity of C37 is required.
*Note that, while the background color may change, the "C37" logotype is always black or white.
Click on image to download ready-to-use logo.
Primary Logo.
Secondary Logo.
MAGMA® logo.
brand typefaces
Typography plays a critical role in establishing the tone of C37’s brand expression. The system is built around three typefaces, all strategically picked to complement and balance one another.
C37 uses the Gotham, Proxima Nova Alt and Adobe Caslon Pro family.
Headline and body
Gotham is highly readable and bold, confidence with a sense of play. At large sizes, use in Bold weight all caps, commands attention and interest. As body copy in regular/book weight, it remains legible and user-friendly. Use
Proxima Nova Alt (regular) for alternate body text.
Subtitle, details
Adobe Caslon Pro is soft and inspiring. Use in italics for quotes and secondary titles body and in italics all caps for alternate titles body.
Tracking and leading
Change the tracking and leading depending on the use to make it proportional, readable and appealing.
body text
Use a tracking equal to the letter size x 10. (Example: If your letter size is 6, your tracking is 60) *Tracking is the spacing between letters.
For titles use a tracking equal to the letter size x 10
Download fonts from the drive folder, as they may not be available in your computer.
COLOR SYSTEM
Bold, scientific and future forward.
C37’s brand colors are a combination of science and design. Cool but also human, clean but also bold, reflecting the brand’s values.
Undertones are light; Accents are are bold. Colors can be used interchangeably to highlight the connection between science and design.
*Note that, while the background color may change, the "C37" logotype is always black or white.
Use the code HEX when designing.
Monochromatic
Used for text.
Use black for titles
Use Gray for subtitles.
Use Light gray for notes.
Use White over black and dark backgrounds.
bold
Used for accents and shapes. *Do not use for text.
Layout
Focused on dynamism and creativity, the identity system builds in flexibility for mutable messaging and styles, demonstrating infinite design possibilities within a framework.
STATIONARY
C37 web and printed material. Click to download the editable files.
Business cards.
COMMUNICATION CHANNELS
SOCIAL MEDIA
All you need to know to share content about C37:
channels:
Webpage
Instagram
Facebook
Linkedin
Email
What and how to share content on instagram
Account:
RULES
Get ready. Download unum and instagram on your cellphone and sign in with the C37 account.
Plan your campaigns. Organize and plan campaigns in asana. Copy and paste this.
Receive feedback first. There is no coming back. Arrange a feedback session of 1 pomodoro with MKT director to review content before sharing.
Always be aware of the feed. Upload the photos of the campaign to unum and see what looks best.
Intertwine campaigns. Linear content in boring. Post 1 photo from the campaign and then post other 3 photos from other campaigns.
CONTENT
C37 Team
Magma® material development
Magma® Panels
Magma® Exclusive Production
C37 TEAM
We care about our team. Post a picture with
Casual photos, smiling, being themselves / Interesting fact about them
NO: Overly serious or arrogant
Use the hashtags: #Whoc37 #DreamTeamc37 #LifeatC37
C37 WORKING CULTURE
Day-to-day objects / Philosophy
Always use white background
Use hashtags: #Whyc37 / #Howc37 #LifeatC73 #workingculture
MATERIAL DEVELOPMENT
Questions about existing materials / Renders / C37 Materials
Use hashtags: #RDmatters #newmaterials #industrialdesign
PRODUCT DESIGN
Inspiration - Concept - Process - Results
Use hashtags: #Whatc37 / #HowC37 #productdesign #NameofProject
MAGMA®
Products / specs
Use hashtags: #Magma04 #newmaterials
channels
What we share and where we share it. We talk about one thing in all of our channels, in different ways depending on who is reading it.
Webpage
Directed to potential clients. Used for selling:
Portfolio of projects
Services we offer
About, story of the company and team
News, invitation to events
Articles about: Production of projects, experience of projects, importance of materials
Directed to potential clients. Mainly used for:
Sharing our work
News, Invitation to events
Articles about: material innovation, sustainability, circular economy. -- Connected to services
Directed to the community. Mainly used for:
Sharing invitations to events -- Share from webpage
Posting event photos -- Album
Articles about: material innovation, sustainability, circular economy.
Directed to the community. Mainly used for:
Invitation to events
Covering events -- instastories
Sharing project's process and results.
Day to day and working culture.
Celebrating our team.
Educating about the importance of RD of new materials.
Templates for social media
Click on image to download the editable files.
MOODBOARD
Browse our studio visual image moodboard to visualize what a C37 communication looks like.
Use this as inspiration for banners, covers, posts etc
Find the images in HQ in the mood-boards below:
C37 inspiration
material concepts
MATERIAL TRENDS
Common materials
MAGMA® Possibilities
Product design TRENDS 2018