Tobias Ottomar

CensioMaking transfer pricing look like something. A brand for the invisible, built with a tool I made myself.

Transfer pricing is about as hard to picture as a business gets. Censio advises on it, independently, in a conservative and trust-driven industry. We first built their brand years earlier, when they were a handful of specialists who needed to stand out as a modern newcomer without frightening a traditional market. It worked, and they grew.

This time the brand had to grow up with them: less challenger, more authority, without losing the quiet distinctiveness that made it recognisable. Censio had become one of the clearest specialists in their field, and had since been acquired by Accru Partners.

The hard part was the same as before. How do you make an invisible, technical service look like anything? I answered it with form: organic shapes drawn from nature and architecture, flowing forms that suggest value moving between places, without ever diagramming the tax itself.

To build that, I made a tool of my own, Form Studio. It generates the organic forms in real time from a set of controls, an endless supply of backgrounds that stay varied across every document, deck and screen without repeating. I designed the identity, drew the patterns, and built the tool that extends them.

The result keeps one foot in the traditional and one in the modern. Serious enough for the field, with a small twist that still makes it recognisably Censio.

Title
Creative Director
My role
Strategy, identity, design, custom AI tool
Agency
Sunny at Sea
Two report covers: transfer pricing documentation and internal loan pricing policy
A framed Censio poster in an office as someone passes
The Censio website with the sculpted brand form
Website page with a landscape photograph
Website section headed We deliver, with the firm's figures
Business cards on grey, the wordmark debossed

A tool I built for Censio's identity. You sculpt the merging organic forms directly, dragging parameters like mass, merge and distortion, with a full lighting rig and camera on top, then capture a still or record it in motion. It gave the brand an effectively infinite set of forms that all belong together, and let me art-direct them rather than settle for whatever a generator returns.

The Censio logo repeated across a white surface
Two brochure covers, brown and yellow
Ribbed metal facade beside the sculpted brown form
The Censio logo debossed in leather