Center for the SpaceTime
and the Quantum
Deliverables
Identity, Logo, Guidelines, UI/UX system
Year
2024-2025
The visual identity of CSTQ is built on a single geometric truth: the amplituhedron. This crystalline emblem encodes the Center's core mission in pure geometry — where spacetime emerges not as stage, but as consequence.
Each polygonal facet functions as both symbol and frame. Individually, they serve as modular containers for researchers' portraits, literally inscribing human minds within the geometric structures they study. Collectively, they form a unified whole — fragmented perspectives converging on fundamental truth.
The typographic system deploys a precise geometric sans-serif in lowercase — clean, contemporary, unapologetic. No ornamentation. No hierarchy beyond necessity. The voice is clarity itself.
The palette is monochromatic: pure white on cosmic black. Chalk on void. Light emerging from infinite depth.
Home to Nobel laureate Sir Roger Penrose and situated in Marseille (France), CSTQ transforms its visual language into living infrastructure: modular, scalable, conceptually integrated across all media. The symbol is not a decoration — it is the architecture of inquiry itself.
