HILO Heat

HILO Heat

Three seconds on a shelf

Underfloor heating gets bought once, installed once, and then spends the rest of its life under a floor. Nobody photographs their heating cable. So the whole job had to happen in the three seconds someone stands in front of a shelf in a hardware store — which is how the colour became the identity, and the box became the manual. A new brand built from scratch: identity, packaging, instruction pictograms and 3D visualisation, across cables, mats, insulation, sensors and thermostats.

Year

2021

Industry

Home heating

Scope of work

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Branding

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Marketing

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Package Design

Timeline

2021-2022

Three seconds on a shelf

Underfloor heating gets bought once, installed once, and then spends the rest of its life under a floor. Nobody photographs their heating cable. So the whole job had to happen in the three seconds someone stands in front of a shelf in a hardware store — which is how the colour became the identity, and the box became the manual. A new brand built from scratch: identity, packaging, instruction pictograms and 3D visualisation, across cables, mats, insulation, sensors and thermostats.

Year

2021

Industry

Home heating

Scope of work

/

Branding

/

Marketing

/

Package Design

Timeline

2021-2022

The problem

The problem

HILØ's boxes had to compete for about three seconds of attention in a hardware store aisle — usually with someone walking past them rather than towards them. So the identity was built around the one thing that carries at distance: a red you can spot from the car park, edge to edge on every surface, with the rest of the palette cut back to white and raw uncoated board so nothing competed with it.

At three metres, nobody reads a product name. They register colour.

The harder part

The harder part

The box is the only manual most people will ever read.

Underfloor heating goes under your floor, and getting it wrong means lifting the floor back up. So every product had to carry its full installation sequence on the packaging — thin white pictograms, one idea per frame, no text to translate across markets. One line weight and one geometry, so a step could shrink to fit a cable box or a thermostat cube without turning into a different drawing.

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