
CHELSEA FC // GLOBAL REBRAND
Taking London's most successful club beyond football






BACKGROUND / STORY
Flying high...
Following the appointment of a new Marketing Director in April 2017, the club embarked on the first global rebrand in their 112 year history.
Working alongside the newly-appointed Head of Brand in my role as Creative Lead, I was responsible for the creative direction and implementation of the new brand at a strategic and creative level, across all touchpoints.

THE BIG IDEA
We are the London Club.
No one is as dramatic, ambitious and stylish as Chelsea.
Born to win, captivating fans
across the world.



STRATEGIC PLATFORM
Born to win, Chelsea style
Every football team in London has attempted to lay claim to being "London's Team", but very few have made it stick.
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But very few London clubs are synonymous with their location - when you think of Chelsea, you think of the King's Rd, celebrity, fashion and quality.
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West London - and specifically Chelsea - conjure images of glamour and style; exactly the kind of mental real estate you'd expect from London's most successful football club.
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The club from the best location in the biggest city in the world, is attractive, dramatic and unique... they're the Pride of London.
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With quality comes an unbeatable attention to detail. Moments of 'surprise and delight' found in high end fashion, run parallel to the high-performance mentality you expect from a club like Chelsea.


DESIGN
Refreshing the identity
With the new brand values, strategy and creative platform in place, the core assets of the visual identity - type, colour and imagery - were updated to create a more contemporary and consistent visual language.

Chelsea Basis
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Working with Colophon Foundry, a bespoke cut of their contemporary sans-serif Basis grotesque was commissioned and evolved to include two headline alternatives; Chelsea Basis Outline and Chiselled.




Blue is the colour
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With blue being a notoriously tricky colour to keep consistent, the brand palette was revised and tested to create a more reliable core colour-way. This is supported by lighter and darker tones, to allow for tonal depth, the use of gradients and identifying sub-brands and verticals


Introducing the Super Graphic:
Inspired by the future, created by fans
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The visual identity is amplified by a unique brand pattern inspired by the architecture of the club's proposed new stadium. This pattern evokes a sense of movement and energy representing the sounds and emotion that build, fall and rise again over 90 minutes




