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Is knowing about your competition important?

Thinking about your competition

Where is your company positioned within the market? Does your brand stand out from your competition, or fit into the status quo?

By Fran Johnson : 16/08/2017
Building the bridge between visuals and brand strategy.

Visuals: Bridging the words and the pictures

Often, talking about branding is the easy bit - everyone is on the same page. Then, the visuals appear and everyone has different opinions. This blog post is around ensuring all stakeholders involved have an understanding of the visuals, tone and style.

By Fran Johnson : 15/08/2017
Choosing an illustration style - how to select it for your brand

How to choose an illustration style

Selecting an illustration style that matches and extends the brand is harder than it sounds! How do you know what will work?

By Michelle Barnett : 11/08/2017
Web content based branding is a new and innovative approach to providing a company identity.

How to structure your web content

Who are your audience? Learning who you are talking to is crucial in getting web design right. It needs to be structured and understandable.

By Fran Johnson : 05/08/2017
Flexible branding - why is it the future of brand?

Why Flexible is the Future

Flexible branding will soon be commonplace. But what is it? It redefines brand consistency utilising resizeable logos & accommodating guidelines.

By Jo Wdowiak : 27/07/2017
What is HTTPS and why is it important?

HTTPS – How secure is your browsing?

Adding HTTPS to a website ensures its secure. A requirement for eccomerce websites, and likely to be standard in years to come.

By Dale Stillman : 12/07/2017
How has reading changed within the digital age.

How has reading changed?

We are now used to scanning information and reading less. Its common to scan through articles and pull out key points - how do you write for this new digital age?

By Fran Johnson : 10/07/2017
Building a brand by mapping out the route.

Future: Mapping out the route

Brand strategy needs to look into the future. Understanding the next 10 years of where you want to take your company, and the general landscape of branding and how audiences understand brand.

By Fran Johnson : 02/07/2017
Consider your audience for branding - how to define, prioritise, profile and target

Audience: Define, prioritise, profile, target

Understanding of your current and future audience types mean the foundations of a brand can be built. How to define, profile and target them?

By Fran Johnson : 30/06/2017
Is branding manipulative? And if so, is it ethical.

Is branding manipulative?

Brands manipulate customers emotions on a regular basis, but how do they do this well, long term?

By Fran Johnson : 23/06/2017
How to consider notifications - both error and positive messages

How to design notifications?

How to write error messages, notifications and design for experience. Keep them short but sweet and ensure they are brand led.

By Fran Johnson : 04/06/2017
Craft beer - a dozen eggs looks at 7 of the best.

Craft beer brands – 7 of the best

Craft Beers continue to be big business. Local, quirky, and with the unmistakable authenticity that makes them so popular, there’s a lot of scope here for some really personalised…

By Michelle Barnett : 23/05/2017