TBS

As part of a larger WarnerMedia strategy to reimagine its portfolio for the modern entertainment landscape, TBS came to us with a big mission: take the brand out of its comfort zone and into the full spectrum of unexpected, unpretentious, undeniable entertainment—from comedies to live sports to premium, scripted originals. Beginning with sharpening the strategic lens and working through every aspect of the visual identity, we helped establish a new philosophical and creative framework for TBS that retains its fun, honest, premium identity while allowing the brand to stretch in all sorts of exciting new directions.

By focusing on a vibrant color system and mood-driven shape treatments derived from the network’s iconic logo container, the new TBS design system feels dynamic, versatile, and unexpectedly emotional. The fresh TBS color palette uses gradients instead of single colors, allowing it to express the mood and tone of content rather than identify a single, rigid genre. Further complementing the system are two interdependent typefaces: a serif for voice-driven brand expression and a sans serif to deliver information. The resulting system, compiled in a comprehensive style guide, allows the brand to further flex across mood and tone while always remaining clean, dynamic, and surprising.

From elegant and comedic to fast-paced and punchy, TBS’s new motion language doubles down on the overarching mood-driven, genre-fluid approach. In animation, the logo is unlocked as an expressive icon, changing depending on the tone of programming. From there, we defined a system of animated light and patterns that allow the iconic logo shape to be used as a container for content, creating clear brand attribution even when the logotype isn’t present. Together, each rich, luscious design element combines into one cohesive look and feel, balancing consistency and elasticity into an identity that can sustain the brand for years to come.

We expanded our foundational TBS design system with a fresh package of promo toolkits that embodies the high adrenaline action and big events coming to the network. To introduce more energy and excitement, we added a punchy new font weight, dialed up the saturation to create outrageous gradient color combinations, and pushed the iconic TBS brand shape to the edge.

TBS fell in love with the Unscripted package add-ons and leveraged the expanded system to promote their fall premieres. Now, armed with an even more flexible visual identity system that dials back for nuanced elegance and way (way) up for high-energy primetime promotion, TBS is empowered to boldly own and differentiate its unique position within WarnerMedia’s content ecosystem.