Toronto-based Brand Designer & Creative Director

logo design

HiO

A logo to launch with

(2026)

HiO was getting ready to launch and needed a logo to go out with. The product writes customer replies for small business owners, and the entire promise sits on one word: voice. If the reply doesn't sound like the person who owns the shop, the software has failed, no matter how fast it was. So the logo had to sound like something too. What we made is a fully custom hand drawn script, closer to a signature than a wordmark, with the asterisk on the "i" as the only mark on the page that isn't a person's hand. A signature is the oldest proof we have that someone was actually here. That felt like the right thing to put on a product whose whole job is to keep the owner's voice in the room.

hio signature logo wordmark in white against dark teal with the spark in the "i" in aqua

logo

logo

hio logo signature wordmark in teal and aqua
hio signature wordmark spacing
hio spark icon in aqua

hand drawn brand extensions

hand drawn brand extensions

hio brand doodles and hand drawn elements in aqua against the brand dark teal background

website example

website example

mockup of the hio website bringing all of the brand elements together
hio icon on the product menu bar
hio signature wordmark on the product menu bar on an iPad

other explorations

other explorations

explorations of the hio logo wordmark
explorations of the hio iconmark

brands i’ve worked with

  • Ceridian Logo
  • Comp AI logo
  • Donestreet logo
  • Dromo logo
  • Guided logo
  • Homebase logo
  • Mammoth logo
  • Neurative logo
  • Paraform logo
  • Profit Mill logo
  • Speaker Labs logo
  • Wave logo

© Dan Ioanitescu 2026

© Dan Ioanitescu 2026

© Dan Ioanitescu 2026