# Merlin rebrands

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2010/11/22/merlin-rebrands/
- Published: 2010-11-22T09:32:41+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

**International medical aid agency Merlin has worked with not-for-profit branding
specialist Spencer du Bois to update its brand and create a new visual identity.**

Research for the charity, [selected last week as one of The Times Christmas Appeal 2010 charities](https://www.fundraising.co.uk/times-chooses-three-charities-its-christmas-appeal-2010),
showed that, even though the organisation was held in high regard by those who know
it, the Merlin brand failed to convey the full breadth of its work.

Max du Bois, Executive Director at [Spencer du Bois](http://www.spencerdubois.co.uk)
said: “The crucial part of the project was to create a brand that combines emergency
relief efforts and the underestimated work to rebuild health systems. One that would
relevantly engage a broad range of audiences with very different needs, from the
UK public to government health departments in the countries where Merlin works.”

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The new logo focuses on the breadth and depth of emergency and longer term health
care services by combining their iconic representations in a large ‘M’ made up of
instantly recognisable symbols, such as hands, hearts, medical aid, clean water 
and shelter.

Claire Biscard, Design Director at Spencer du Bois, added: “We worked with Merlin
to develop a collection of individual icons that provide a narrative to the incisive
and practical manner in which they operate and the life-saving services they deliver.
The icons combine to create the Merlin ‘M’ and evolve into a distinctive, flexible
and animated brand language that communicates on all levels. It’s an identity that
will take them to the next level in awareness, reach and fundraising.”

Imogen Ward, Merlin’s Director of Marketing and Communications, said: “This unique
combination of the immediate and the longer term, the medical and the wider health
care provision is, I feel, captured in this image in a compelling and creative way.
Merlin is a charity loved by its existing donors but we need more public support!
We plan to double the ratio of funds from the public over the next few years and
this piece of work is crucial to our future development. I have every confidence
that it will help us reach our ambitious goals.”

www.merlin.org.uk