RECOMMUNITY

Brand Development

ReCommunity, a pure play recycling company that works with communities to recover discarded natural resources and convert them into new products came to Atomic Wash in crisis mode. It was one week before their public launch and they still didn’t have a logo, and they needed one, fast. A challenge indeed, but Atomic Wash is no stranger to proverbial fire drills. With ReCommunity’s mission, vision and values in mind, Atomic Wash designers diligently brainstormed ways to illustrate the company and their desire for community partnerships.

Services
  • Over All Brand
  • Brand Content Strategy
  • Logo & Identity
  • Critical Communications
  • Photography
  • Website
  • Web Content Strategy
Foundation of the Brand

What came to be was a singular logo with three hexagon components, each one representing a carbon molecule. The first component, “RE” was chosen to represent the company’s ability to give new life to resources that were previously destined for landfill. The second “Community” component was a critical choice as it reinforced the company’s primary mission to supporting communities and community growth, around the country. The third hexagon was the “Recycling” component which of course, reinforced the focus on recycling. However, the idea was that the third hexagon would be customizable, and as new communities signed onto work with the ReCommunity, a personalized ReCommunity logo would be created by inserting the community name in place of the word recycling.

The Logo system/schema met with overwhelming success and was immediately become an iconic stamp representing the ReCommunity brand and recycling awareness. It addition, using the adaptive logo has truly been able to help communities promote recycling and integrate the ReCommunity mission into the communities they serve.

 

 

Website Content & Design

ReCommunity needed a first-class web presence that stood out from their competition and at the same time was strategically aligned their recently developed brand identity, as well as their new marketing materials.

Atomic Wash’s idea was to create a site that would not only help the company sell their services, but appeal to consumers by telling the recycling story in a compelling, relatable, relevant way.

We started with the idea of a rally call to help inspire individuals to throw stuff into a recycling bin instead of the trash. From that came the ‘Don’t Throw Away Our Future’ campaign, which ultimately became ReCommunity’s brand voice and our inspiration for the design of the entire site. The focus of the site is centered on “the customer” and the tangible differences they can actually make. Instead of a serile, corporate site about ReCommunity’s services and process, the ReCommunity site is an inviting consumer site focused on improving communities.

To further strengthen this message, we developed a complete Education resource that includes a range of materials including lesson plans, animated videos, infographics, posters, and a one-of-a-kind Virtual Recycling Facility, all designed to help educate students, whom represent the “future” in the “Don’t Throw Away Our Future” campaign.

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Educational Resources

As a company that truly believes in the importance of recycling, ReCommunity offers student tours at all of their facilities. They looked to Atomic Wash to ensure they delivered the best possible presentations and materials to educators and students. We created a multi-tiered approach that provides students and teachers print materials, online materials and both guided and self-guided virtual tours of a ReCommunity Materials Recovery Facility. These tours are available for viewing at ReCommunity MRFs and can be accessed on the company website.

RFP Solution

When a company depends on the RFP process to succeed, they need a foolproof formula to continually produce winning RFP presentations. ReCommunity, Atomic Wash’s pure-play recycling client turned to us to create a template that could be used as the foundation for all of their RFP responses.

The result is a flexible, customizable format that can be tailored to fit the exact requirements of the RFP. In addition, we built in the ability to package the RFP as a hardcover book; a spiral bound book or a 3-ring binder. Our design has continually been praised and has helped win the company numerous projects.