Skydiamond logo with two models wearing Skydiamond jewellery

Skydiamond

A multifaceted partner brand and a new era of growth

Launched in 2021, Skydiamond is one of most innovative luxury brands on the planet. With its unique story, it was also one of the most difficult brands to develop, but at Green Knight Studios we loved the brand’s mission and couldn’t resist the challenge.

Like its name suggests, Skydiamond makes diamonds out of the sky. Or, more accurately, it takes carbon from the atmosphere and uses energy from the wind and sun – plus a little rainwater – to make beautiful diamonds that are physically and chemically identical to those mined from the earth.

However, while mined diamonds have a huge impact on the environment and can be unethical in all sorts of ways, Skydiamonds offer all the bling with none of the ethical sting.

The project began with the development of Skydiamond’s visual identity. Clean, clear and sophisticated, the logotype needed to communicate both the brand’s innovative qualities and its luxury appeal. Elegant typography is disrupted ever so slightly by little facets cut into the characters, like sparkling highlights that subtly hint at the idea of a shaped gem.

While developing the brand, Green Knight established an excellent relationship with the team at Skydiamond to hone the look and feel, tone of voice and campaign messaging the brand would deploy. Our journey continued with the development of the Skydiamond website, which has evolved through three phases.

Firstly, prior to the diamonds being released, the site had to communicate the brand’s mission, the product concept and its benefits as a sustainable choice. A major part of the messaging concerned the science and the rationale behind Skydiamond. Equally, the emotive and luxury aspects of Skydiamonds needed to come to the fore – their beauty, their quality and what makes them so compelling as an ethical gift.

In the second phase, the diamonds were rolled out for purchase supported by a CRM campaign. The most recent phase of the website’s development has brought mounted diamond jewellery to the fore, complete with a jewellery configurator and collaborations with leading jewellery designers and luxury brands.

From initial concepts in 2020 through to the realisation of a fully-fledged ethical jewellery brand in 2023, Green Knight Studios has collaborated closely with Skydiamond to deliver a distinctive identity, collateral and creative campaigns. This has entailed print and digital design, social campaign content, infographics, animation and more.

It’s a project that has truly sparkled for us. Our creative and conceptual thinking has been pushed in the delivery of a brand that communicates cohesively and consistently to luxury consumers, to jewellery professionals and to the gemstone industry at large.

We’ve relished the opportunity to create something that really matters – a sustainable brand that fights the climate crisis and produces something beautiful and desirable, in an innovative way. What more could we want from a project?

View the website: www.skydiamond.com

Scope

Brand Creation
Brand Guidelines
Content Strategy
Copywriting and Tone of Voice
Iconography
Illustration Art Direction
Infographics
Motion Graphics
Photography Art Direction
Print Materials
Social media graphics
Website Design
Website Development

Contributors & Credits

Photography: 

Rankin
Gianluca De Girolamo 

Copywriting:
Garrick Webster
Janice Turney

Website development: 

Attach Digital

All elements were carefully considered to help develop an elegant landing page
Considered design — All elements were carefully considered to help develop an elegant landing page
How the website was experienced on hand-held devices was extremely important to the core strategy
Mobile luxury — How the website was experienced on hand-held devices was extremely important to the core strategy
The ethos of the company helped guide every design decision
Another way — The ethos of the company helped guide every design decision
If you are going to by a diamond online, the experience has to be exceptional
eCommerce elegance — If you are going to by a diamond online, the experience has to be exceptional

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Skydiamond editorial spread
Skydiamond packaging plus insert
Skydiamond booklet and wrap
Skydiamond OHH advert park
Skydiamond OHH campaign fly poster
Skydiamond OHH campaign fly poster

“Green Knight has helped us create a brand that has changed the conversation in the diamond industry and is proving that you don’t have to give up the good things in life to be sustainable.”

Dahlia Nahome, Marketing Director, Skydiamond

Skydiamond visual language
Our typeface was seleted to mirror the facets of a Skydiamond
All facets — Our typeface was seleted to mirror the facets of a Skydiamond
The colour palette was taken from a Skydiamond's ingredients: the sun, rain, wind and carbon
Ingredients — The colour palette was taken from a Skydiamond's ingredients: the sun, rain, wind and carbon
Clear do's and don't's around it's application on colour and image
Logotype application — Clear do's and don't's around it's application on colour and image
The primary typeface and how to creatively use it
Typographic strategy — The primary typeface and how to creatively use it
As well as the photographic rule oif thirds, we also used two horizon lines to structure our creative canvas
The Horizon — As well as the photographic rule oif thirds, we also used two horizon lines to structure our creative canvas
A multi-faceted design approach
Layering — A multi-faceted design approach

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With a massive thank-you to Dale, Dahlia, Nick, Kirsty and the whole Skydiamond team.