Visual Branding


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Visual Branding pulls together analyses of logos, typeface, color, and spokes-characters to give a comprehensive account of the visual devices used in branding and advertising. The book places each avenue for visual branding within a rhetorical framework that explains what that device can accomplish for the brand. It lays out the available possibilities for constructing logos and distinguishes basic types along with examples of their use and evolution over time.




Branding And The Visual Response


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Branding can be approached from various angles, for example with a marketing, sales or business mindset. On 156 pages, this unique book has a strong visual focus and provides an opportunity for learning and development, mostly to graphic designers, marketing specialists and consultants who are open to visual ideas and wish to grow professionally – and to future clients planning to have their visual identity designed. From a brand to a visual language The five chapters take the reader through the visual branding process, covering branding and the meaning of visual elements. Detailed descriptions are complemented with explanatory illustrations or images on almost every page. The last chapter offers short, supplementary pieces of information and several useful tools and guides. Who is this book aimed at? » Graphic designers wishing to dive deeper into the branding process » Consultants seeking a better understanding of the visual aspects of branding » Students of visual fields » Entrepreneurs wishing to get an insight into branding and visual identity design The structure of the book The branding process: brand, brand sprint and brand design. The visual response: basic forms and their meaning, bouba or kiki, typography and how to choose a colour. The visual branding process:briefing, draft designs, presentation, iteration and delivery. Digital visual identities: website, application, advertisements, social media, design systems. Useful materials: useful materials and guides for branding and visual identity design.




The Language of Branding


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The Language of Branding: Theory, Strategies and Tactics shows marketers how to use language successfully to improve brand value and influence consumer behavior. Luna and Lerman are among only a few researchers who take a multidisciplinary perspective on the ways language influences how consumers act. Together with Morais, an anthropologist engaged in market research, they show how understanding the power of language can impact the essence – and sales – of a brand. The book covers the fundamentals of brand language and applications for an array of marketing initiatives. Readers will learn why brand language matters, how language is used in marketing, and how to build a brand strategy that capitalizes on the richness and complexity of language. This book includes real-world case histories that demonstrate vividly how brand language is created and exercises that enable both students of marketing and marketing professionals to apply the book’s concepts and stimulate class discussion. The Language of Branding: Theory, Strategies and Tactics can be used in a number of courses, including consumer behavior, branding, advertising, linguistics, and communications.




Designing Brand Identity


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Designing Brand Identity Design/Business Whether you’re the project manager for your company’s rebrand, or you need to educate your staff or your students about brand fundamentals, Designing Brand Identity is the quintessential resource. From research to brand strategy to design execution, launch and governance, Designing Brand identity is a compendium of tools for branding success and best practices for inspiration. 3 sections: brand fundamentals, process basics, and case studies. Over 100 branding subjects, checklists, tools, and diagrams. 50 case studies that describe goals, process, strategy, solution, and results. Over 700 illustrations of brand touchpoints. More than 400 quotes from branding experts, CEOs, and design gurus. Designing Brand Identity is a comprehensive, pragmatic, and easy-to-understand resource for all brand builders—global and local. It’s an essential reference for implementing an entire brand system. Carlos Martinez Onaindia Global Brand Studio Leader Deloitte Alina Wheeler explains better than anyone else what identity design is and how it functions. There’s a reason this is the 5th edition of this classic. Paula Scher Partner Pentagram Designing Brand Identity is the book that first taught me how to build brands. For the past decade, it’s been my blueprint for using design to impact people, culture, and business. Alex Center Design Director The Coca-Cola Company Alina Wheeler’s book has helped so many people face the daunting challenge of defining their brand. Andrew Ceccon Executive Director, Marketing FS Investments If branding was a religion, Alina Wheeler would be its goddess, and Designing Brand Identity its bible. Olka Kazmierczak Founder Pop Up Grupa The 5th edition of Designing Brand Identity is the Holy Grail. This book is the professional gift you have always wanted. Jennifer Francis Director of Marketing, Communications, and Visitor Experience Louvre Abu Dhabi




Really Good Packaging Explained


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This book, the second in the series following Really Good Logos Explained, addresses the elements of effective packaging vs. packages that aren’t successful and what makes a particular design more powerful or attention-getting than others.Four well respected design professionals—each of whom will specialize in the area of product packaging—evaluate the 300+ design examples in the book. Each author provides specific and to-the-point observations and critiques.




Visual Brand Language


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This thesis focuses on finding ways of creating products that communicate a brand's core message to the user through a structured and clearly defined design framework known as Visual Brand Language (VBL). The work has two parts. The first part highlights the need for a triadic communication model (Brand, Product, User), which serves as a vehicle for the brand message to travel from the hands of business teams through design teams to the consumer. In the second part, the emphasis is on VBL creation methodologies that enable designers to extract design attributes for the product to be designed. Two methods discussed in this part are The VBL Pyramid and the Disk Method. The VBL Pyramid is a methodical translation of the brand core values in a stepwise manner going from the bottom to the top from abstract to specific of a hypothetical pyramid and at each step arriving at form elements that will drive product design. The Disk Method focuses on creating image collages that describe brands core values in consumers own interpretation which then leads into cues that designers use to formulate signature elements and a design strategy. Finally as a conclusion, emphasis is drawn upon how a VBL strategy helps multibrand companies to monitor, manage and communicate important features of a design to other stakeholders in the product development process without sacrificing creativity.




Designing Brand Identity


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Revised and updated sixth edition of the best-selling guide to branding fundamentals, strategy, and process. It’s harder than ever to be the brand of choice—in many markets, technology has lowered barriers to entry, increasing competition. Everything is digital and the need for fresh content is relentless. Decisions that used to be straightforward are now complicated by rapid advances in technology, the pandemic, political polarization, and numerous social and cultural changes. The sixth edition of Designing Brand Identity has been updated throughout to address the challenges faced by branding professionals today. This best-selling book demystifies branding, explains the fundamentals, and gives practitioners a roadmap to create sustainable and successful brands. With each topic covered in a single spread, the book celebrates great design and strategy while adding new thinking, new case studies, and future-facing, global perspectives. Organized into three sections—brand fundamentals, process basics, and case studies—this revised edition includes: Over 100 branding subjects, checklists, tools, and diagrams More than 50 all-new case studies that describe goals, process, strategy, solutions, and results New content on artificial intelligence, virtual reality, social justice, and evidence-based marketing Additional examples of the best/most important branding and design work of the past few years Over 700 illustrations of brand touchpoints More than 400 quotes from branding experts, CEOs, and design gurus Whether you’re the project manager for your company’s rebrand or you need to educate your staff or students about brand fundamentals, Designing Brand Identity is the quintessential resource. From research to brand strategy, design execution to launch and governance, Designing Brand identity is a compendium of tools for branding success and best practices for inspiration.




Branding For Dummies


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Discover how brands are created, managed, differentiated, leveraged, and licensed Whether your business is large or small, global or local, this new edition of Branding For Dummies gives you the nuts and bolts to create, improve, and maintain a successful brand. It'll help you define your company's mission, the benefits and features of your products or services, what your customers and prospects already think of your brand, what qualities you want them to associate with your company, and so much more. Packed with plain-English advice and step-by-step instructions, Branding For Dummies covers assembling a top-notch branding team, positioning your brand, handling advertising and promotions, avoiding blunders, and keeping your brand viable, visible, and healthy. Whether you're looking to develop a logo and tagline, manage and protect your brand, launch a brand marketing plan, fix a broken brand, make customers loyal brand champions—or anything in between—Branding For Dummies makes it fast and easy. Includes tips and cautionary advice on social media and its impact on personal and business branding programs Covers balancing personal and business brand development References some of the major brand crises—and how to avoid making the same mistakes Shows brand marketers how to create brands that match their employers' objectives while launching their own careers If you're a business leader looking to set your brand up for the ultimate success, Branding For Dummies has you covered.




Creating a Brand Identity: A Guide for Designers


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Creating a brand identity is a fascinating and complex challenge for the graphic designer. It requires practical design skills and creative drive as well as an understanding of marketing and consumer behaviour. This practical handbook is a comprehensive introduction to this multifaceted process. Exercises and examples highlight the key activities undertaken by designers to create a successful brand identity, including defining the audience, analyzing competitors, creating mood boards, naming brands, designing logos, presenting to clients, rebranding and launching the new identity. Case studies throughout the book are illustrated with brand identities from around the world, including a diverse range of industries – digital media, fashion, advertising, product design, packaging, retail and more.