Industry

Online Auction Platform

Client

Proxibid

Where Bidders Meet Auctions

Proxibid Get Your Bid On advertising campaign featuring heavy equipment, rebrand by Hix Brands

The Auction Platform, Rebulit for What's Next.

Proxibid is North America's largest online auction marketplace, connecting over 2 million monthly visitors and buyers from 190 countries with 4,000+ sellers across 16 categories — from heavy construction equipment and farm machinery to classic cars and collectibles. The existing brand had fallen behind the scale of the business: dated, generic, and carrying the visual weight of early web 2.0. The rebrand needed to match the platform's actual authority and make it feel like the industry leader it already was. Serving as lead brand designer, the work began with a full brand strategy — anchoring the identity around dependability, transparency, and expertise — before moving into execution. The new wordmark was built with the same proportions as the legacy logo to preserve brand equity, with the stylized "x" at its center functioning as the conceptual heart of the brand: the precise point where bidders meet auctions. DIN Condensed and Roboto were paired to balance industrial authority with digital clarity, while a dual-purpose color system separated promotional and functional UI applications. The full system spanned logo and guidelines, color palette, typography, custom iconography, tone of voice, marketing collateral, advertising, brochures, welcome kits, pitch decks, email templates, signage, business cards, and swag — with UI style recommendations developed in close collaboration with the UI team lead to extend the brand into a full design system. Tools used include Figma, Adobe Creative Suite, Jitter, and various AI tools.

Proxibid logo construction grid
Proxibid brand color palette in navy with orange and gold accents
Proxibid iconography guidelines with line icons
Proxibid branded tote bag, stationery and lanyard
Proxibid branded tote bag, stationery and lanyard
Proxibid campaign posters Time to Drive, Time to Haul, Time to Harvest and Time to Build
Proxibid campaign posters Time to Drive, Time to Haul, Time to Harvest and Time to Build

A Brand Built to Match the Scale of the Platform.

The marketing side of the rebrand rolled out fully — from billboard campaigns to auctioneer welcome kits — giving Proxibid a unified, confident presence across every touchpoint for the first time. With the UI rollout underway, the system is built to scale: precise enough to govern a platform handling billions in gross merchandise value, flexible enough to speak to any audience.

  • Proxibid Get Your Bid On billboard with a yellow wheel loader
  • Proxibid auction website page for a wheel loader lot
  • Proxibid branded tote bag and stationery set
  • Proxibid pitch deck slide layouts with equipment photography
  • Proxibid Get Your Bid On billboard with a yellow wheel loader
  • Proxibid auction website page for a wheel loader lot
  • Proxibid branded tote bag and stationery set
  • Proxibid pitch deck slide layouts with equipment photography
  • Proxibid Get Your Bid On billboard with a yellow wheel loader
  • Proxibid auction website page for a wheel loader lot
  • Proxibid branded tote bag and stationery set
  • Proxibid pitch deck slide layouts with equipment photography