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Case study / Branding · E-CommerceShoe Guru

Shoe
Guru.

AQOMI's first venture — shipped to 40+ countries, exit in 3 years.

Shoe Guru
AQOMI Studios

From a brief in footwear e-commerce
to one recognizable brand.

ShoeGuru was AQOMI's first business venture — and the project that started it all. What began as a college undertaking evolved into a fully operational international e-commerce brand with a distinct identity built for scale.

Branding

Core discipline AQOMI led on the Shoe project.

Footwear e-commerce

The brand operates in footwear e-commerce, speaking to global online shoppers.

AQOMI

Full creative direction, from strategy to finished applications.

Client Shoe Guru
Services Brand Identity · Key Visuals · Graphic Design · Website
Industry Footwear · E-Commerce · Consumer
Result 40+ countries · Exit in 3 years
Creative Director Tomek Jablonski · AQOMI Studios
Strategy

Make the brand
impossible to ignore.

AQOMI handled everything: brand identity, key visuals, graphic design, and the full website — crafting a bold, editorial aesthetic that let the product speak at a global level. The brand shipped to over 40 countries in just three years before a successful exit.

01 / Narrative

One clear story.

Connect every touchpoint into a single, coherent narrative instead of disconnected assets — so global online shoppers instantly understand who they are.

02 / Distinction

Stand apart.

Give the brand a distinctive visual signature that separates it from everything else in footwear e-commerce and earns a second look.

03 / Recognition

A repeatable system.

Establish logo, typography and colour rules that stay consistent from the first impression to the hundredth.

04 / Scale

Built for every surface.

Design a system that travels cleanly from digital to print, campaign and environment without losing its character.

Before

A college project.

New direction

A global e-commerce brand.

The work

The system,
in the world.

Selected Shoe visuals from the AQOMI project — identity, key visuals and applied brand.

What the system enables

What a coherent
system unlocks.

The Shoe system is designed to support recognition, hierarchy, reuse and growth across every touchpoint.

01

Brand recognition.

A consistent logo, palette and type hierarchy create a signature the audience remembers.

02

Clear hierarchy.

Information and imagery sit inside one visual architecture, easy to read at any scale.

03

Cross-channel reuse.

The same system extends from web to print, social and physical applications.

04

Room to grow.

A flexible foundation the brand can build on as it expands into new markets and formats.

40+
Countries Reached
3
Years to Exit
4
Disciplines Delivered
Delivery

Not just a logo.
A working system.

A brand system that stays coherent across identity, digital, campaign and physical use.

Identity.

Primary and secondary logo use

Clear-space and proportion rules

Colour and monochrome variants

Responsive brand marks

Visual system.

Colour palette

Typography hierarchy

Graphic and image direction

Art-direction guidelines

Digital.

Website visual consistency

Key content modules

Social templates

Campaign adaptations

Applications.

Print and collateral

Environmental and large-format

Presentation systems

Consistent use at scale

Your brand.
Next.

Like Shoe, your brand can move from a brief to a system people recognize. Let's build it.