

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 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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