Case · Healthcare

NOWA Clinic: a visual identity for dentistry and beauty.

NOWA is a dental and beauty clinic. It needed an identity from the ground up: something to build the rest of its presence on. We drew a friendly character to support an approachable tone, set the NOWA wordmark with “Dental & Beauty Clinic” under it, and let one green wave run across every application: the coffee cup, the price list, the social feed, the stickers. Branding only; the site is not ours.

  • Healthcare
  • Dental and beauty clinic
  • Brand identity
  • Brandbook
  • Poland
NOWA · brandbookDesign preview: NOWA Clinic
A character, not a tooth

A line-drawn figure with a toothbrush and a ponytail carries the brand where a clinic would usually put a tooth icon. from the identity board

Two colours and a wave

Sage green and warm beige, with one wave that runs across the cup, the price list, the feed and the sign. from the identity board

Brandbook, not a logo file

Name treatment, logo, type and colour system, and the rules for signage, print and social. project record

The project

Task, approach and delivery

The task

A dental and beauty clinic needed an identity from the ground up. Most clinic brands lead with a tooth and a shade of blue, and a patient reads that as a waiting room.

The identity had to feel like care rather than treatment, and behave the same on a cup, a price list, a sign and a social feed, because the clinic would handle all of them itself.

The approach

We drew a character instead of a tooth: a figure with a ponytail and a toothbrush a patient can smile at. The NOWA wordmark sits under it with “Dental & Beauty Clinic” spelled out, in sage green and warm beige.

One wave runs across every application and holds the system together; the rules for signage, print and social went into the brandbook so the clinic can produce new pieces without us.

What we delivered

A brand identity for NOWA Clinic: name treatment, logo, type and colour system, and a brandbook with the rules for signage, print and social. Files and rights in the client’s name. The clinic’s website was not built by HeadPills.

A clinic identity built around everyday moments of care

NOWA Clinic combines dentistry and beauty services. Its identity needed to bring those activities together without depending on a single treatment symbol. We developed a character, a wordmark, a soft green and beige palette, and a recurring wave. The delivered brandbook explains their use across printed material, signage and social content. The clinic website was outside this project.

A character gives the brand a human point of contact

The presentation introduces a drawn face with tied-up hair above the NOWA name. In other applications, the character carries a toothbrush or holds a piece of reading material. These are different situations involving the same recognisable figure. The character therefore does more than sit beside the wordmark: it supplies a small visual vocabulary for talking about the clinic's everyday subjects.

The face is drawn with a light line, leaving space around the expression. It has a different visual weight from the broad green wave. This contrast lets the two elements share a composition without becoming one dense illustration. On the main board, the character remains easy to locate whether it appears above the name or inside a larger scene. The relationship is visible in both the cup application and the illustrated strip.

A friendly drawing is a tone-of-voice decision. It does not establish treatment quality, qualifications or patient outcomes, which require their own evidence. For NOWA, its role is to make the communication approachable while the name and the Dental & Beauty Clinic descriptor identify the business. Keeping those roles separate makes the brand easier to explain and avoids asking a mascot to carry information it cannot provide.

The wave connects applications without making them identical

A broad green line moves across the identity board and appears again in the clinic's social layouts. Its scale can change: it can pass behind a character or occupy the edge of a composition. That gives the designer a connecting element which does not rely on placing the full logo in every available corner. The wave is recognisable through its shape and colour rather than through a fixed position.

The application matters when choosing how much of the wave to show. A photograph already contains visual information, so a small part of the shape can be enough to connect it with the brand. A quieter surface can carry a larger gesture. The presentation demonstrates that range. A future team should use the supplied rules to preserve the relationship, rather than inventing a new decorative line each time a post or printed item is needed.

What changes between the cup, price list and social post

The cup
The cup places the identity on an object encountered during a visit. The available area is curved and small, so the name and character must work in a compact arrangement. The application shows how the brand can appear in an ordinary interaction, without demanding a large illustration or a long explanation to make sense.
The price list
A price list has a reading task: someone needs to locate a service and its information. In the presentation, the identity frames a much denser field of type than the hero graphic. This is a useful contrast when assessing a branding proposal. The visual system should accommodate practical information, not only look convincing when very little needs to be written.
The social feed
The social examples combine photographs, the wave and the character. They show that a recognisable feed does not require every tile to be the same branded poster. Photography can carry the subject of a post while recurring colour and shapes provide continuity. The examples demonstrate layouts, not a social publishing service or measured audience growth.

Type and colour make the pieces belong together

The NOWA lettering is light and open. The descriptor below it identifies the clinic's two areas of work, which matters when the name appears without a treatment photograph. Green and warm beige alternate as backgrounds and foregrounds in the presentation. Seeing the same wordmark in both arrangements helps separate the underlying identity from any one mockup or photo setting.

A restricted palette also creates an editorial responsibility. A team still needs to choose photographs that sit comfortably alongside it and keep small text readable. Colour consistency should not mean forcing every photograph through a heavy tint or putting pale letters over a busy image. For future applications, the useful question is whether the person can identify the clinic and read the information in the conditions where the material will actually be seen.

How to brief a comparable clinic identity

  1. Define the situations

    List what a visitor encounters before, during and after an appointment: a social post, entrance sign, service list, cup or printed instruction. Decide which of those pieces need design at launch. This gives the branding work a concrete scope and helps distinguish core identity assets from later production or ongoing communication.

  2. Choose the character's role

    If a character is part of the system, agree where it helps and where a simpler signature is preferable. It can introduce an educational subject or add warmth to a small object; it should not compete with important instructions. Review it alongside real text rather than approving it only as a large standalone drawing.

  3. Prepare for the team's daily use

    Establish who creates new layouts and which rules they need most often. Files should make the permitted logo versions, colours and recurring elements easy to find. When a new post or print item is required, the team should be adapting an existing visual language. NOWA's brandbook was the handover format for that language, with rules covering print, signage and social applications.

The result is a usable visual system

The confirmed delivery brings the name treatment, character, typography, colour and applications into one identity. Its range is visible in the contrast between the practical price list, the everyday cup and the more expressive social examples. These are different communication tasks with a shared visual source. For a prospective client, the case is an example of how to assess a clinic brand beyond the logo alone: look at the information it must carry, the surfaces it will occupy and the rules that let other people continue using it.

The design in use

From the delivered project

  • Reads as care

    A character and warm colours where a clinic usually puts a tooth and a blue.

  • Holds on every application

    Cup, price list, sign, feed, stickers: one wave, one system.

  • Produced without us

    The brandbook gives the clinic the rules to make new pieces on its own.

  • Room for a site

    The system is ready to become a website; that step was not part of this project.

Questions

About NOWA Clinic

Did HeadPills build the NOWA Clinic website?

No. This project was the brand identity: mark, wordmark, colours, type and a brandbook with rules for signage, print and social. The clinic’s website was not built by HeadPills.

Why does the NOWA Clinic identity use a character instead of a tooth?

Because a tooth and a blue read as a waiting room. A line-drawn character a patient can smile at, in sage green and warm beige, reads as care, which is what a dental and beauty clinic sells.

What is in the NOWA Clinic brandbook?

The name treatment, the logo, the type and colour system, and the rules for how the identity behaves on signage, print and social, so the clinic can produce new pieces without an agency.

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