Be seen, be safe, be Buel

Workplace safety is of paramount importance in this industry. When dangling from a rope amongst the massive infrastructure and machinery of Australian heavy industry, often in remote areas, it is essential to be visible at all times. If you can be seen by others, you can stay safe. This was also important to customers as accidents are expensive, time consuming and can cause even more complex problems than the original issue that needed fixing. Understanding the role health and safety played with the industry shaped our design thinking with a new brand identity inspired by the hazard warning symbolism (such as chevrons and fluorescent colours) seen across the industrial landscape.

Fuelling boldness

The brand strategy centres around how they perform their services for clients with Ingenuity at Work. This inspired the new brand name Buel which has a powerful phonetic quality created by combining ‘b’ for ‘bold’ with ‘fuel’ (as in fuelling innovation). As a four letter word Buel lends itself perfectly to big bold industrial style letterforms. Our new chevron icon strikes through the capital ‘B’ which is designed to suggest the heights they go to for clients. We built flexibility into the device so it could expand, grow and animate according to application. All brand styling was designed to be super bold for maximum impact and visibility, selecting a vibrant green brand colour to contrast with the orange safety gear and the red earth of the Australian outback.

Scaling new heights

The new brand was universally admired by clients and customers, especially when a Buel truck would arrive for a site inspection. Approximately seven years after relaunch Buel’s management team successfully secured an acquisition by another leading rope access company.