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Motion is the new logo.

Kai Tanaka

Motion Director

Aug 5, 2026

Most brand impressions now happen on a screen that never stops moving. If your identity can’t move, it isn’t finished.

Count the places your brand appears this week. Most of them move: stories, reels, product UI, a pre-roll ad, a loading screen. Yet most identities are still designed as if they’ll live on a business card.

Give the brand a way to move

A motion identity isn’t a logo animation. It’s a set of rules — how things enter, how they leave, how fast the brand thinks. Chroma’s rule was “everything melts”; Nordly’s was “everything follows the horizon.”

If you can recognise the brand with the logo covered, the motion is working.

Package it for everyone

Motion only matters if the in-house team can use it. We ship templates, Lottie files and a forty-second explainer for every rule. One hero film should be able to become three hundred assets without us.

Chroma’s liquid wipe ran across 312 assets from one master file.

Measure what moves

Motion is also the most testable part of a brand. Hook rate, watch time and recall are all measurable within a week. We use them — and we change the system when the numbers tell us to.

Kai Tanaka

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Kai Tanaka

Motion Director, Tokyo. Animates his grocery lists. Nobody has asked him to stop.

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