CASE STUDY

D2iQ - Rebrand

Role highlights:

β€’ Brand leadership
β€’ Identity systems
β€’ Creative oversight
β€’ Video production
β€’ Cross-team orchestration
β€’ Rapid execution

Brief D2iQ’s rebrand required a 360-degree overhaul within 90 daysβ€”new name, identity, design system, CMS website, and launch video content. Working closely with MUCHO and internal teams, I directed creative execution across brand, marketing, and product touchpoints, ensuring consistency and clarity in an extremely competitive cloud-native landscape.

Audience C-suite, IT leaders, and DevOps engineers navigating Day 2 Kubernetes operations, seeking trusted, enterprise-grade solutions for complex cloud environments.

Approach I defined a scalable, typographic-driven design system that emphasized clarity, modernity, and digital adaptability. Using collaborative stakeholder workshops, I aligned creative with business strategy. We implemented the refreshed identity across the website, video, sales collateral, and digital campaignsβ€”ensuring the visual language matched the company’s repositioning and long-term growth.

Outcome The rebrand led to a 178% increase in lead generation and immediate revenue lift. The simplified identity enabled product clarity and sales acceleration. Internally, the brand system became a unifying tool, facilitating adoption across teams and accelerating alignment between design, dev, and go-to-market functions.

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At D2iQ, headquartered in San Francisco, I led the in-house creative team and directed external partners, including branding agency MUCHO and video production crews. We worked closely with the product team to ensure the brand extended seamlessly across the entire platform. My leadership unified creative output across digital, marketing, and product, aligning agency, internal teams, and videographers to deliver a cohesive, high-performing rebrand within just 90 days.

Tobi Knaup, Co-Founder and CTO at D2iQ

β€œThe rebrand from Mesosphere to D2iQ involved a new brand identity, website, and videos. Richard led the team of internal and external creatives and developers to get it done in a short 90 days. Without his leadership, work animators we we a no are be on able to pull this off.”