TO BEGIN AT THE BEGINNING
What is a Brand?
“...not what a product does, but what it means.”
2 Example: iPhone vs Amazon Phone
The personality of a company
2Example: Harley Davidson is an outlaw
What people think and feel about a company
2 Example: Volvo = safety
MARKS CREATE FEELINGS
Visual Meanings
Tall Wide
MARKS CREATE FEELINGS
Visual Meanings
What else? What else?
MARKS CREATE FEELINGS
Visual Meanings
Upstanding Relaxed
MARKS CREATE FEELINGS
Visual Meanings
MARKS CREATE FEELINGS
Visual Meanings
Regular RandomProgressive Chaotic
EXPRESSION OF THE BRAND
Visual Identity
Basics
TRADEMARKS + WORDMARKS
Ideal marks
are a visual shorthand
2 Example: Twitter bird
tell the brand story
2Example: Bank of America logo
have at least two references
2 Example: International Paper logo
TRADEMARKS + WORDMARKS
Kinds of marks
2symbol or icon
2monogram
2wordmark
2mutable
2combination of any of the above
HERE COMES A QUIZ...
What kind of mark is it?
2symbol
2monogram
2wordmark
2mutable
2combo
IN THE BEGINNING THERE WAS THE WORD
Brainstorming
Session
2identify our current brand descriptors
2generate our future brand keywords
2generate some ideal endorsements
Just
what
I need.
Easy,
quick,
fun!
Very
powerful.
Totally
worth it!
Better than
anything.I wish I’d
used it
sooner.
BRANDCAST BRANDING WORKSHOP
Next steps...
2organizing + grouping keywords
2generating mood boards based on keywords
2designing visual identity based on mood boards
2presentation + discussion of the above
BRANDCAST BRANDING WORKSHOP
Thx!
See you next week.