Brand Synergy
Lack of brand synergy from medium to medium can do subtle, long-term damage to the way your company is perceived.
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You can’t FAKE a brand.
Nothing will sour the perception of a brand with customers like creative dissonance. If you want to project the image of a fun-loving company that cares about its customers and the community, then be sure that’s who you are as a company.
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Branding a Relationship
When you think of your favorite brands, there is often a very specific relationship that we all have with them.
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Change is Inevitable- Adaptation Isn’t
“In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.” — Benjamin Franklin. Covid-19 showed us just how uncertain our business plans and operations can be. This almost instantaneous change has been forced upon us. Most often, technology, regulation, competition or simply customer preference force change. The impact of the pandemic and the nationwide shut down of the economy is without precedent. No one […]
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Always Keep Learning
Sometimes when we get to a certain level in our development of a skill, we just… stop learning. We stop trying to absorb new information. We stop trying to be better than we were yesterday. We decide that we know enough and sometimes, that even turns into a toxic mentality. Sometimes, that means we look at new styles and trends and look down our noses […]
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Freshening the Brand
When you’re the designer in charge of maintaining a client’s brand through regular use in projects like social media posts, print flyers, postcards, etc., there are multiple responsibilities on your shoulders. You have the responsibility to not only maintain that brand, but to regularly refresh it. And in refreshing it, to not give in to the temptation to salt the proverbial Earth where the elements […]
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Managing Creativity in the “New Normal”
When I returned to my office to work again after having been working, like many of us, from home for 3 months, things were exactly as I had left them. Even my page-a-day PEANUTS desk calendar still had the page from Monday, March 16th at the top. It was a comic of Snoopy on his doghouse writing one of his many far-fetched books. When I […]
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Familiar Fonts
When designing a logo, or any kind of graphic design project that uses fonts, there’s a pitfall that many people fall into (designers included) that can create a disruptive or even unintentionally funny situation. And it’s one that is focused on your choice of typefaces. When designing a logo, or using fonts in any significant way, the ones you choose will do much of the […]
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Brand Maintenance
Sometimes as designers and marketers, we don’t get to create the brands we work on. Instead, we inherit them from other creatives whole cloth. Logos, fonts, color palates and existing marketing assets are often handed down from the client for us to work with. Other times, it’s little more than an existing logo and a smile. Regardless, it’s an existing brand and, suddenly, your task […]
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What is Graphic Design?
Many people have asked me to define Graphic Design. It’s tricky. The question is kind of like asking, “What is a doctor?” There are doctors who do routine work and there are innovators, which is a good way to think about it. It’s about telling a story, creating an ambiance, and a personal statement which surpasses the spoken word. It is an avenue for amazingly […]
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