Dolphin/caterpillar. Rabbit/frog. Duck/turtle. Mythical fusions represent unexpected beauty through human intervention: how the most innovative architectural designs can emerge from unlikely combinations.

The ArchiTeam Awards 2021 identity is a play on the largest category Architectural Alterations and Additions, with a nod to the pandemic. Each fused creature is depicted “having their jab” in a not-so-subtle link to the highly-charged Covid era.

The organic linework of the illustrations stands in stark contrast with the clean shapes we visualised for awards seasons past.

In glorious hypercolour, these beasts present as they might on crests: majestic and memorable within an architectural branding landscape so often dominated by monochrome, rectilinear designs.