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Sanctuary Computer

Modern Life

Brand, art direction, web, and digital product design for Modern Life, an insurance agency for the future.
Modern Life business cards on a rattan tray, one printed with the brand wordmark and one with an advisor’s contact details.

Brief

Launch a brand platform, identity system, visual language, and MVP digital product for a newly-formed, tech-enabled life insurance brokerage.

Solution

Life insurance advisors simplify what’s otherwise a slow, paperwork-heavy process for their clients, and 90% of life insurance policies are still bought through them.

A big theme we centered on with the Modern Life team was the potential for beauty and good design to make an opaque category feel human. We built a brand and product that put advisors and clients on the same side of the table.

Three historical fire and life insurance posters, including a Republic Fire Insurance ad showing a building ablaze.

Historically, insurance policies used a framed motif to depict scenes of what you were insuring against.

Instead, we envisioned these portals as hopeful windows into modern lives.

Modern Life illustration framed by a portal arch: a cozy living room scene with two friends sharing a meal, set on yellow-green.
Modern Life typography specimen showing the brand’s rounded sans-serif on a white page in a grid of colored panels.
Modern Life tote bag on a deep-green background with the script ‘life’ wordmark in green ink.
Modern Life mobile site on iPhone showing a Modern Life article ‘Life is complicated.’, resting on a tabletop.
Modern Life business cards on a rattan tray, one printed with the brand wordmark and one with an advisor’s contact details.
Three layers of the Modern Life illustration system: line drawing on cream, silhouette on coral, and a colorful brownstone scene.
Modern Life policy handbook open inside a cream folder, showing the cover ‘Your new insurance policy is here.’ next to the policy booklet.
Storefront window decal reading ‘Modern Life Here’, with the brand’s script wordmark and curved arrow flourish.
Modern Life printed booklet spread on a green background, with circular illustrations of household scenes.