{"id":63696,"date":"2026-05-18T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/designcompass.org\/?post_type=archive&#038;p=63696"},"modified":"2026-05-18T08:50:30","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T23:50:30","slug":"noomalooma","status":"publish","type":"archive","link":"https:\/\/designcompass.org\/en\/archive\/noomalooma\/","title":{"rendered":"NoomaLooma, Small daily creations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is the brand design for NoomaLooma. Cotton created NoomaLooma&#039;s first brand identity and initial product language together with co-founders Piera Gelardi and Lakshmi Narayanee. NoomaLooma is a platform that centers on short, small moments of making in everyday life, rather than grand creations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The core of the brand is a pressure-free creative experience. Users can lightly create something every day through short daily prompts. Rather than aiming for high-quality results, the focus is on making creation feel like play again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The visual identity is structured around a generative \u201cO\u201d shape. The logo and graphic elements are closer to a continuously transforming structure than a fixed form. Soft typography, loose doodles, and tactile interactions are used together, seamlessly transitioning between the brand and product screens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The website&#039;s interactive logo changes its form depending on the state. It is a device designed to create a small playful element even the moment a user views the brand. The celebratory logo display that appears after signing up follows the same direction. It transforms moments of functional transition into part of the brand experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Noomies, the community avatars of NoomaLooma, are also an important element. Users create characters by combining colors, eyes, noses, hair, accessories, and more. This builder is inspired by the &#039;Exquisite Corpse&#039; method, where multiple people connect drawings in sequence. The finished characters create a slightly quirky, lighthearted, and joyful impression.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The product screen also continues the brand&#039;s tone. Features such as Daily Noooooodle, Bingo Challenge, Daily Noodle, Lookback, and Creative Circle are structured as a flow of recording, reflecting on, and sharing creations. Rather than evaluating or pressuring users, the app encourages repeated short engagements and small achievements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video height=\"1080\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1920 \/ 1080;\" width=\"1920\" autoplay controls loop muted src=\"https:\/\/designcompass.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Noomalooma-01.mp4\" playsinline><\/video><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"819\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/designcompass.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/noomalooma-02-819x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-63699\" srcset=\"https:\/\/designcompass.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/noomalooma-02-819x1024.png 819w, https:\/\/designcompass.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/noomalooma-02-240x300.png 240w, https:\/\/designcompass.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/noomalooma-02-768x960.png 768w, https:\/\/designcompass.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/noomalooma-02-10x12.png 10w, https:\/\/designcompass.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/noomalooma-02-600x750.png 600w, https:\/\/designcompass.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/noomalooma-02.png 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 819px) 100vw, 819px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video height=\"1352\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1080 \/ 1352;\" width=\"1080\" autoplay controls loop muted src=\"https:\/\/designcompass.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Noomalooma-04.mp4\" playsinline><\/video><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video height=\"1080\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1920 \/ 1080;\" width=\"1920\" autoplay controls loop muted src=\"https:\/\/designcompass.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Noomalooma-03.mp4\" playsinline><\/video><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/designcompass.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/noomalooma-03-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-63698\" srcset=\"https:\/\/designcompass.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/noomalooma-03-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/designcompass.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/noomalooma-03-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/designcompass.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/noomalooma-03-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/designcompass.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/noomalooma-03-1536x864.png 1536w, https:\/\/designcompass.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/noomalooma-03-18x10.png 18w, https:\/\/designcompass.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/noomalooma-03-1320x743.png 1320w, https:\/\/designcompass.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/noomalooma-03-600x338.png 600w, https:\/\/designcompass.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/noomalooma-03.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>More and Sources<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cotton.design\/work\/noomalooma\">https:\/\/cotton.design\/work\/noomalooma<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":63697,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"dsncategory":[3271],"class_list":["post-63696","archive","type-archive","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","dsncategory-research-edu"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/designcompass.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/archive\/63696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/designcompass.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/archive"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/designcompass.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/archive"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/designcompass.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/designcompass.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"dsncategory","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/designcompass.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/dsncategory?post=63696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}