The brief
Our long-term client, Kidd Aitken Legal Marketing, approached us with a new business offering: to embed environmental, social, and governance (ESG) values into the fabric of leading international law firms.
Kidd Aitken Legal Marketing has advised over 300 law firms across the globe to achieve top rankings in the world’s largest legal directories and awards. Seeing a gap in the market, Kidd Aitken ESG would assist law firms in creating ESG programmes, a vital framework for the future. However, they didn’t want to confuse this new venture with their core business.
Our challenge was to create a separate brand that complimented Kidd Aitken as an umbrella company. Working with our sister company, Transform Communications, we developed Kidd Aitken ESG’s brand positioning, identity, and website.
The solution
ESG is about more than saving the environment (though it includes that, too). For breadth, we avoided green colours and opted for earthy tones instead. We carried this thinking across to photography, with mountainous landscapes and natural textures. Combined with a minimal yet clear visual language, the final design offers a natural and contemporary take on ESG.
While maintaining Kidd Aitken Legal Marketing’s legacy angled shapes and minimalist feel, Kidd Aitken ESG now stands out as an industry leader in the making — and the stats don’t lie. One week after launching the website, they saw a 18% increase in LinkedIn follows and received enquiries via the website contact form straight away.
As well as Kidd Aitken ESG’s new website, and a talking head video series to give potential clients different ways to learn more, we simultaneously launched Kidd Aitken Legal Marketing's new website — this, too, saw a spike in engagement with a 17% increase in site visits and 5,000 more impressions on Google search in its first week.
