Honor a brand's past while moving a business forward.
With good reason, a business owner or brand manager can be hesitant to change a logo, brandmark or the style of their marketing design. A smart business person knows that brands build strength through consistency and awareness, conveying the actual brand experience. Consumers rely upon this security to make their purchasing decisions.
A successful brand face should exhilarate and inspire the target audience. Understandably, the desire always exists for the next new thing and the need to stay current. As a result, over time, the brand face might evolve, unintentionally, resulting in a "dated" look, or a mixed bag of marketing materials and branding without any coherent connection. Careful stewardship is needed to get a brand back on track, honoring the past while still moving forward.
So how do you update your brand face without alienating your existing customer base? Strategy, experience and good graphic design is used to carry a brand's heritage into a new service or product offering while continuing to present a unified message. It is quite remarkable how much a design can be recalibrated. A brand face can be injected with fresh ideas, yet still retain its fundamental soul and still be very recognizable as the original face of the company's brand. When done well, the design confirms and strengthens the relationship with the customer, saying essentially, "You can count on what you know and trust about this company."
The core of our commitment as branding professionals is to understand how to identify the value of a company's past and new channels to move it forward. We know that a clear and strong design identity can represent what an organization wants their brand to stand for now and in the future. If requested, we often create visual brand strategy or style guides for your businesses or brand that can provide a map in creating an external picture for customers and can act as the internal face of your business strategy. Contact us to discuss your brand.
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