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Granīts

Granīts is the leading maker of pallet-collar hinges — flat sheets of steel pressed, with real precision, into a small piece of hardware that has to work every single time. The identity comes straight from that process: sheet metal that folds and locks into the hinge itself. A no-nonsense industrial brand, built in the company's own bright blue.

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Granīts — Well Traveled Hinges truck
01 — Challenge

A precision manufacturer with a humble product. Hinges aren't glamorous — they're bought by the thousand, judged on tolerance and reliability, and rarely thought about at all. Granīts needed an identity that felt as exact and dependable as the parts themselves, without pretending to be something it isn't.

How do you make a mark out of a hinge?

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02 — Solution

Sheet into hinge

The mark is the manufacturing process, frozen. Flat sheets of steel stack, fold and press until they lock into the profile of a finished hinge — the exact move the factory makes every day. It gives Granīts a logo that isn't decoration but a diagram of what they do, and a system that can build and rebuild itself from the same simple parts.

03 — Brand World

The System in Use

The mark, the blue and the sheet-steel logic carried across the whole brand — lockups, patterns, powder-coated colour and everyday applications.

Granīts brand world
Granīts brand world
Granīts brand world
Granīts brand world
Granīts brand world
Granīts brand world
Granīts brand world
Granīts brand world
04 — The Product

The Real Thing

Before any of the branding, there's the object: cold-pressed steel, precise to the millimetre, cut out and shot straight so the engineering does the talking.

Granīts hinge
Granīts hinge
Granīts hinge
Granīts hinge
Granīts hinge
Granīts hinge
Granīts hinge
Granīts hinge
Granīts hinge
Granīts hinge
Granīts hinge
Granīts hinge
Granīts hinge
Granīts hinge
Granīts hinge
Granīts hinge
Granīts hinge
05 — Product Photography

Beauty Shots

The hinge, styled and lit — steel against field, forest and the open road, letting a piece of hardware look like it deserves the attention.

Granīts hinge — beauty shot
Granīts hinge — beauty shot
Granīts hinge — beauty shot
Granīts hinge — beauty shot
Granīts hinge — beauty shot
Granīts hinge — beauty shot
Granīts hinge — beauty shot
06 — The Factory

Where It's Made

The plant itself — presses, steel and stock — shot with the company blue held sharp while the rest falls back into grey.

Granīts factory
Granīts factory
Granīts factory
Granīts factory
Granīts factory
Granīts factory
Granīts factory
Granīts factory
Granīts factory
Granīts factory
Granīts factory
Granīts factory
Granīts factory
Granīts factory
07 — The Workers

Blue Against Steel

The people who make it. The whole visual language runs on one move: the brand blue on the crew stays in colour while the shop floor around them turns grey.

Granīts worker
Granīts worker
Granīts worker
Granīts worker
Granīts worker
Granīts worker
Granīts worker
Granīts worker
08 — Workwear

Dressed for the Job

Kit that reads as one team from across the floor — a branded jacket, gloves and name tags, all in the company blue.

Granīts workwear — Gloves
Gloves
Granīts workwear — Jacket
Jacket
Granīts workwear — Name Tag
Name Tag
Granīts workwear — Key Visual
Key Visual
09 — Casual Wear

Off the Clock

Pieces that carry the mark past the factory gates — totes, bottles and blue-on-blue basics for the crew and everyone who roots for them.

Granīts casual wear
Granīts casual wear
Granīts casual wear
Granīts casual wear
Granīts casual wear
11 — Around the Factory

On Site

Signage, flags, containers and the small on-site details that make the plant itself part of the identity — the same mark and blue, scaled up to building size.

Granīts on site
Granīts on site
Granīts on site
Granīts on site
Granīts on site
12 — Digital

Online

A clean, catalogue-led website that puts the specs first — built on the same grid, blue and hinge logic as everything else.

Granīts website
13 — Stationery

The Paper Side

Business cards and correspondence built on the same industrial tone — plain stock, precise margins, the mark used small and confidently.

Granīts stationery
Granīts stationery

Sheet into hinge. Precise, every time.