Agrospheres

Sowing the seeds for this agro-tech’s future growth

Overview

The design direction for AgroSpheres is a bold, nuanced blend of biotechnology and agriculture, brought to life with sleek, minimal layouts and organic elements. By merging tech-centric graphics and ag-inspired imagery, we crafted a visual story that feels both innovative and grounded in science. Authentic human imagery adds a personal touch, while clean, striking visuals project trustworthiness and revolution. This balance of sophistication and approachability reflects AgroSpheres’ mission to redefine boundaries in their industry—modern yet rooted in credibility.

Our Role

Visual Identity
UX/UI Design
Webflow Development
Content Strategy
Brand Guidelines

Industry

Biotech & Life Science

Results that Resonate

The new site positioned AgroSpheres as an industry leader, drawing increased attention from investors and collaborators. Users praised the site’s clarity and visual appeal, reinforcing trust and interest in the company’s mission. With a growth-ready design and strategic storytelling, AgroSpheres now has a digital presence that punches well above its weight, setting them up for continued success.

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Slingshot

Modernizing to stand out from the crowd

Overview

We partnered with Slingshot Bio to develop a responsive, scalable WordPress website and accompanying Shopify site that seamlessly blends cutting-edge design with an intuitive user experience. Aimed at educating skeptics and engaging scientists, investors, and future partners, the site combines bold visuals, approachable messaging, and a sleek e-commerce platform. By integrating analytics, we empowered Slingshot to track user behavior, refine strategies, and showcase their groundbreaking synthetic cell technology with confidence and clarity.

Our Role

Brand Identity
Content Strategy
UI/UX Design
Creative Partner
WordPress Development
Shopify Development

Industry

Biotech & Life Science

Results that matter

The new site made an immediate impact, driving a 30% increase in organic traffic within three months and sparking increased investor interest. Its clean, scalable design not only highlighted Slingshot Bio’s innovative products but also established credibility in a competitive market. With glowing user feedback and a foundation built for growth, this project was a testament to our ability to craft transformative solutions for companies that dare to challenge the status quo.

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Flagship Pioneering

A partnership designed for science

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As a trusted design partner and consultant to venture capital magnate Flagship Pioneering, we specialize in creating significant, compelling design systems across vast, dynamic biotech organizations.

Known for its innovative founding of more than 100 biotech startups — including mRNA pioneer Moderna — Flagship, founded by the Afeyan family, encompasses a world-class life sciences fund and incubator, 33 active portfolio companies, and the philanthropic Afeyan Foundation.

Over several years, our partnership with Flagship has taken on many forms, including consulting on and creating design and communications for every facet of its brand ecosystem.

Flagship is an organization of great scale and complexity. Our understanding of each business line and the nuanced interconnectivity between them, as well as the relationships we’ve built with executives, stakeholders, and employees across the organization, has enabled us to create work that truly moves the needle.

Working on such a wide breadth of projects across Flagship’s ecosystem, we harness the insights and capabilities to run and scale our team as needed to meet project requirements. We are uniquely equipped to manage intricate and highly-complex projects, working with cross-functional teams to create brands that both stand on their own and feel at home in the same creative and scientific ecosystem.

Together with Flagship, we’ve proudly developed ten of its 33 portfolio brands, featuring design and messaging as bold and compelling as the science itself.

Our Role

Brand strategy
Brand identity
UX/UI Design
WordPress development
Collateral
Brand Guidelines

Industry

Biotech & Life Science

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We have received incredible press coverage and an outpouring of positive commentary on our website & brand and we could not be more pleased.

This would of course not at all have been possible without your artistic vision, execution and willingness to work with us together as a team. We look forward to continuing our work together!”

Senior Principal, Flagship Pionneering

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Abiologics

The revolutionary platform leverages generative AI and high-throughput chemical protein synthesis to bring life-changing treatments to a wide range of diseases. We came on board in Abiologics’ infancy to shape its story and visual identity, crafting a consistent and compelling narrative across its logo, website, slide deck, and animated videos.

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Profound

ProFound Therapeutics explores the dark proteome to uncover therapeutic proteins that could transform medicine. Elegant and innovative science is expressed with abstract landscapes and terrain-like visuals to represent the exploration of uncharted biological territory. The site features a sophisticated color palette and scientific visuals of the ProFoundry Platform, showcasing their revolutionary medicine pipeline.

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Prologue

Prologue is pioneering a revolutionary approach in biotherapeutics by using viral proteins to expand the functional boundaries of human proteins, unlocking vast therapeutic possibilities. They sought a brand presence that captured both the magnitude of their vision and the sophistication of their science. A deep collaboration with Prologue’s scientific team, allowed us to transform complex protein modeling data into visually captivating, scientifically accurate images.

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Ampersand

Ampersand develops innovative medicines using its AND-Platform™ to create targeted treatments that act specifically at disease sites. Dual colors in this carefully crafted visual brand, represent the platform’s core science—localizing and actuator moieties. Graphics and animations were carefully planned and created to simplify and showcase the platform’s complexity.

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Harbinger Health

Harbinger Health is a pioneer in the early detection of cancer, harnessing a combination of machine learning and proprietary insights. We worked with Harbinger to develop a name, brand and website for its “TLC Project” — a video campaign and social initiative that highlights inequities in cancer care in underserved communities.

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Sail Biomedicines

Sail Biomedicines was formed in October 2023, after the merger of two of Flagships’ companies. The union led to the creation of the Sail Platform, the most complete toolkit in the industry for comprehensive programming of RNA medicines. For the company’s launch, our task was to create a new brand identity, visual language, and website introducing the groundbreaking technology and promising future of programmable pharmacology.

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The Generate Platform uses machine learning to increase the success rate of and reduce the time required for drug discovery. Generate was a unique project for us, because by the time we came on board, it already had a website and visual language. Our support of Generate is done through ongoing strategic, creative, and technical services to support the strategic growth and evolution of the organization. Our services include building and expanding upon Generate’s website, intranet, presentations, and more, through a robust creative services retainer.

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Empress

The Empress platform uses AI to bring certainty and speed to the drug discovery process. Our work began with a thorough audit of Empress’s existing website and materials. From there, we developed an expanded visual system for the brand, designed to enrich its story and provide deeper brand engagement.

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OTHER

Afeyan Foundation

Founded in 2000, the Afeyan Foundation designs, builds, and supports innovative organizations and initiatives in the areas of education, science and technology, and humanitarian action. In support of the foundation’s philanthropic and charitable programs, we work closely with the Afeyan family and key leaders within Flagship to develop and maintain a visual identity and website that propels the brand’s mission forward.

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Alkymi

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Alkymi uses AI and machine learning to allow businesses to streamline the arduous task of processing unstructured data from a variety of sources into an accurate and simple workflow. This automation eases operational headaches and allows for unprecedented efficiency, insight, and action.

Inspired by the founder’s Danish background and the Patterns product, ICS designed the brand around a library of abstract, modernist, Scandinavian-inspired geometric images that can be reworked into any number of arrangements. These echo the simplicity of Alkymi’s product while using a palette and typography that’s warm, human, and inviting to create a style that feels capable, approachable, and highly-customizable to each client’s particular needs.

Because Alkymi is a software product, we wanted to avoid using imagery that relied on screenshots or visualizations pulled from the platform itself. The shape library offered a way to imply various features and capabilities without feeling the need to change everything when the UI of the product inevitably changed.

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Brand Identity
Content Strategy
UI/UX Design
Creative Partner

Industry

Software & Technology

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Afeyan Foundation

Overview

Our Role

Brand Identity
Content Strategy
UI/UX Design
Creative Partner

Industry

Non-Profit

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The TLC Project

Shaping a campaign rooted in trust, empathy, and equity.

Overview

Harbinger Health came to ICS with a rare ask: help them launch a campaign platform that wasn’t about product, but about purpose. Together, we built a campaign rooted in trust, equity, and social activism — designed to spark real conversation and rebuild trust in healthcare. Our goal was to create a visual and verbal identity that felt human, honest, and full of energy, inviting a broad, diverse audience into a movement for change.

Our work spanned strategy, naming, design, and execution. We developed a clear positioning and messaging framework, facilitated a collaborative naming workshop, and crafted a distinctive visual identity rooted in social activism.

Our Role

Brand Identity
Content Strategy
UI/UX Design
Creative Partner
Development

Industry

Healthcare
Social Justice

Our Approach

ICS worked closely with Harbinger Health to craft a campaign strategy that would foster open, transparent conversations about access to care — not as a side message, but as a core expression of purpose. At the heart of the campaign was a shared commitment to trust, empathy, and action, articulated through a co-authored purpose statement and a positioning strategy anchored in one central idea: building trust and breaking down barriers.

Unlike a traditional product launch, this campaign offered something different — the conversations themselves were the product. Rather than asking for buy-in, the campaign asked people to listen — to show up, reflect, and be part of something bigger. To support that mission, we defined a set of shared values — including trust, honesty, humility, and authenticity — to guide every message, visual, and interaction.

Creative Direction

We designed the campaign to feel like a real conversation: honest, generous, and deeply human. Our aim was to create a magnetic emotional connection with audiences, balancing seriousness of purpose with a tone that felt warm, inviting, and real.

Visually, the campaign lives at the intersection of healthcare and social activism — bold and message-driven, with authentic photography, hand-drawn elements, and vibrant, off-kilter layouts that reflect the grassroots power of the movement. We leaned into design choices that evoke freedom, creativity, and empowerment, helping to build energy and foster lasting trust.

A core element of the identity was a standalone wordmark — confident, distinctive, and carefully customized to serve as a clear and memorable expression of the campaign’s name across touchpoints.

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Mamaleh’s

Modern deli — Classic soul

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Before they were a local staple with multiple locations, the Mamaleh’s team partnered with ICS to create their brand design and website. They wanted a brand that leaned on nostalgia to dovetail with a decidedly old-school interior and their cheeky, playful personality. We began by taking inspiration from the name of the restaurant itself. “Mamaleh” is a Yiddish term of affection roughly meaning “little mama” — and also a subtle nod to the owner’s former restaurant, Hungry Mother. We developed a logomark that’s sweet and joyful with typography rooted in traditional Jewish delicatessen signage. The palette is based on a rich but inviting orange complemented by cooler neutrals as well as an accent of green as an homage to the deli staple, the half-sour pickle.

This unique palette flowed into a number of other deli-inspired collateral pieces such as custom wax paper and menus and into the merch we custom designed for their small grocery item and gift shop they tucked in a small area near the entrance.

Our Role

Logo
Brand Identity
Merch & Collateral
Content Strategy
UI/UX Design
WordPress
Creative Partner

Industry

Restaurant

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Sumiao

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Situated in Kendall Square, Sumiao Hunan Kitchen is a contemporary Chinese restaurant featuring authentic Hunan style cuisine. ICS worked closely with the eponymous owner to imbue the brand and the space with design touches that reflected her heritage and passion for art. The visuals blend tradition and a bright, contemporary feel to give the space a vibrant, intimate, and deeply personal feel that elevates the dining experience.

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Logo
Brand Identity
UI/UX Design
WordPress
Creative Partner

Industry

Restaurant

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Sail Biomedicines

A brand built to evolve

Overview

Sail Biomedicines was founded in October 2023, uniting first-in-category technologies from across the Flagship Pioneering ecosystem and bringing together more than eight years of data and multi-product platform-building expertise. The result is the Sail Platform, the most comprehensive toolkit in the industry for programming RNA medicines.

Our Role

Visual Identity
UX/UI Design
Webflow Development
Content Strategy
Brand Guidelines

Industry

Biotech & Life Science

We took a phased approach to building Sail’s brand and website—balancing the immediate need for a site with the thoughtful development of a full, immersive experience. For Sail’s initial launch, we developed a brand identity, visual language, and website that positioned the company as a category leader from day one. The brand needed to capture the scale and ambition of Sail’s vision while making its complex science clear and compelling for investors, scientists, talent, and the media.

In the second phase of our work, we expanded the brand’s visual system to reflect Sail’s rapid evolution and growing momentum. Through audience insights, we refined the balance between accessibility and scientific precision, ensuring that the brand spoke to both expert and non-expert audiences without losing depth. We also explored visual storytelling approaches, testing different levels of abstraction to make complex concepts engaging while staying true to the underlying science.

Beyond the website, we delivered a full suite of brand assets to ensure consistency and scalability across all touchpoints. This included a comprehensive style guide, an evolved logo, and a PowerPoint template, equipping Sail with the tools to maintain a strong and cohesive brand presence.

Through a refined visual system, strategic storytelling, and an enhanced digital experience, Sail’s brand signals a company that is defining the future of programmable medicines.

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Abiologics

Artificial biology made beautiful

The Challenge: Transforming Scientific Skepticism

Abiologics needed a digital presence that could communicate a revolutionary biologics platform to multiple audiences. Standing at the frontier of synthetic protein design — a concept long discussed but never successfully commercialized — the company required a narrative that could transform scientific skepticism into excitement. Their goal was to build credibility, attract partners, and showcase a technology that promised to reshape medicine.

Our Role

Brand Strategy
Brand Identity
Webflow Development
Custom Scientific Visualizations
Interactive Animations
Content Strategy
Brand Guidelines

Industry

Biotech & Life Science

Design Strategy: Merging Science and Storytelling

We crafted a digital experience that balanced computational precision with human-centered storytelling. By incorporating mirror image motifs, interactive design elements, and responsive layouts, we created a website that did more than explain complex science — it celebrated innovation. The design strategically addressed multiple audience personas, from skeptical scientists to potential investors and future employees, using a visual language that made cutting-edge research feel accessible and compelling.

The Impact: A Digital Gateway to Future Medicine

The resulting platform positioned Abiologics as a pioneer at the intersection of chemistry, computation, and human health. More than a corporate website, it became a window into a potential future of medicine. The project delivered a flexible digital ecosystem with Webflow development, responsive design across multiple breakpoints, SEO optimization, and integrated job posting capabilities. Ultimately, the website established Abiologics’s public narrative and created a design system ready to communicate their groundbreaking approach to synthetic biologics.

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Agrospheres

Sowing the seeds for this agro-tech’s future growth

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Our Role

Industry

Results that Resonate

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Slingshot

Modernizing to stand out from the crowd

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Industry

Results that matter

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Ampersand Biomedicines

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Flagship Pioneering

A partnership designed for science

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Industry

“

We have received incredible press coverage and an outpouring of positive commentary on our website & brand and we could not be more pleased.

This would of course not at all have been possible without your artistic vision, execution and willingness to work with us together as a team. We look forward to continuing our work together!”

Case studies

NEW cos

Abiologics

Profound

Prologue

Ampersand

Harbinger Health

Growth cos

Sail Biomedicines

Generate:Biomedicines

Empress

OTHER

Afeyan Foundation

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Alkymi

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Octant

Greentown Labs

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Afeyan Foundation

Overview

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Industry

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TLC Project

Flagship Pioneering

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The TLC Project

Shaping a campaign rooted in trust, empathy, and equity.

Overview

Our Role

Industry

Our Approach

Creative Direction

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Ampersand Biomedicines

Emulate

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Mamaleh’s

Modern deli — Classic soul

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Our Role

Industry

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Sumiao

Ginkgo Bioworks

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Sumiao

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