About Aaron

Aaron is a multi-disciplinary designer with a focus on product design. With over 15+ years in the field, he’s had the opportunity to work with agencies, consultancies, in-house and non-profits but currently prefers helping out smaller start-up teams. Some previous experiences include IDEO, Google, R/GA, Frog, Verizon, Citi, GE, Betaworks and Instapaper.

At the moment he resides in California with his wife Tina and two parrots, Taco and Burrito.

aaronkapor@gmail.com
209.604.7702

About This Site

This site is an evolving work-in-progress with selected samples from current and past projects. Equal parts process and final deliverables, it’s meant to showcase thought patterns that are unique for each project in order to create a true variety of work. It was coded and compiled with Jekyll.

Sans-Serif: Atlas Grotesk
Monospace: Atlas Typewriter

Other Locations:

Appreciate / Panda_2

"Project Panda" was the working name used for multiple streams of branding work done for the start-up Appreciate.

Below are a series of selected samples of the brand guideline presented as the final deliverable to the company. The work done prior to this can be found here: Panda Part 1.

Appreciate is/was an app/service based on the idea of putting aftermarket value on items that you buy – focusing on quality over quantity. Doing this would initially involve having a “digital twin” (NFT counterpart) of every item a customer buys.

Initially, this was just an ongoing side project with the priority being product design workflows and hand-offs. Eventually, we brought on some other designers to help with production – specficially for this project – with me leading the design through two phases (R&D/Sketching and Finalizing).
Color: Primary Palette

The appreciate color palette is derived from the personality of the brand and the feeling we want it to convey to users. There are four blues along with conpliments that can be layered in subtle unexpected ways. As a whole, the appreciate palette feels chic yet approachable.

When the logo is used in color, the light colors (first group) can be used against a dark color background (second group) and vice-versa. For prescriptive rules and examples, please refer to the logo color combinations section.

Sky Light

#3EB9FF

#3EB9FF

R 62
G 185
B 255

H 202
S 100
L 62

Sea Green

#44F4B3

#44F4B3

R 68
G 244
B 179

H 158
S 89
L 61

Salty Salmon

#FFC0A1

#FFC0A1

R 255
G 192
B 161

H 20
S 100
L 82

Bright Royal

#8F00FF

#8F00FF

R 143
G 0
B 255

H 274
S 100
L 50

Sharp Blue

#6219FF

#6219FF

R 98
G 25
B 255

H 259
S 100
L 55

Grellow

#E0FF5B

#E0FF5B

R 224
G 255
B 91

H 71
S 100
L 68

Almost Dark

#222222

#222222

R 34
G 34
B 34

H 0
S 0
L 13

Deep Rock

#7B7261

#7B7261

R 123
G 114
B 97

H 39
S 12
L 43

Dark Blue

#3A3E55

#3A3E55

R 58
G 62
B 85

H 231
S 19
L 28

Color: Secondary Palette

The secondary color palette includes nine colors. The brighter colors here are meant for eye anchors such as error states or special promotions. The lighter, desaturated colors are general purpose background colors.

This set is meant to be supplementary only and used sparringly. They are included as a plan-b for design professionals.

Art Green

#B0E301

#B0E301

R 176
G 227
B 1

H 74
S 99
L 45

Early Mandarin

#FFCF27

#FFCF27

R 255
G 207
B 39

H 47
S 100
L 58

Dirty Pink

#FC008D

#FC008D

R 252
G 0
B 141

H 326
S 100
L 49

AAAAAA

#AAAAAA

#AAAAAA

R 170
G 170
B 170

H 0
S 0
L 67

Tepid Maude

#EAE8E5

#EAE8E5

R 234
G 232
B 229

H 36
S 11
L 91

Tepid Green

#E4F4E9

#E4F4E9

R 228
G 244
B 233

H 139
S 42
L 93

Sand

#EFEDDE

#EFEDDE

R 239
G 237
B 222

H 53
S 35
L 90

Hint of Yellow

#FFFFF6

#FFFFF6

R 255
G 255
B 246

H 60
S 100
L 98

Dirty Mist

#F3F3F3

#F3F3F3

R 243
G 243
B 243

H 0
S 0
L 95

Color: Logo

Below is an assortment of color combinations using primary and secondary colors for foreground and background.

All of these combinations have passed WCAG compliance for large text and UI. For smaller text, use the first and last rows.

Pattern

The appreciate 'a' can be rearranged in wasy that reflect luxury fashion brands. Below is a set of desaturated and color samples that help accent compositions that need a motif.

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