Saturday, 4 July 2015

Creative Brand Identity Design Making

By Jordan Schmidt


Having a brand is dire to any business. It plays a role in business success as it is what remains in the memory of the customers. It refers to the memories, stories, relationship and set expectation by the customer which entirely influence the choices they make in making purchases. It represents what the customers converse between themselves about your business. This is the importance of creative brand identity design.

When clients come to you with the request to come up with their products, event or service identity brand, this can seem daunting at first. However as long as you possess the skills needed all you have to do is twist them around in the right way. Before starting the undertaking, you should put up the brand strategy to create set of propositions and values agreeable to both you and your client. If not done at the beginning of the project, your client will not have a benchmark to use in judging the relevancy of your creative concepts.

There should be a brand briefing to work with. If not, there will be overreliance on intuitive ideas concerning the solutions you have. This in turn makes the feedback bias. Decisions are easy to rationalize if the involved parties know the strategies.

Research is an important part of this process. It should be on the brand nature, its history, ethos and role. No details must be left out about the identification of the client and the company in question. The market been targeted, how the company would like their customer to view them, the mechanism and ways of advertising to be employed should be looked into also.

Getting firsthand information on the customer views as far as branding is concerned is dire. They give useful reviews to do with what their likes are and their knowledge levels when it comes to designing events. The present competition the company faces should not be left out too. Look at what visual styles, typography and colors the rivals have used. Use this as a basis to create something very unique. Visualize all possible colors, sizes and usages of design. Put yourself into the shoes of the client and consider it from that point.

It is the logos which hold together brand identities making its recognizability instant. But this is not what the brand is entirely about. When the creations are been made, focus must be on all the elements not just one. Mind the interactions of these elements amongst themselves.

Do not do the mistake of taking the client for granted because you see yourself as highly qualified. Remember it is the client who knows what stands out. Designing something catchy can earn you points from your peers. However, this will be to the expense of what the customer expects you to accomplish. Also you will have ignored what it will take to make the creation a success in serving the purpose it is meant to.

Limit the details, color palates and typography. An identity done simply may become timeless moving along the visual landscape of the client which is ever-changing. Finally capture what is special about the identity branding from the start otherwise your imagination will be stagnated.




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