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How To Revitalize Your Brand
Revitalizing your brand is not often easy and means assessing where you came from, where you are now, and where you want to go from here. It can often feel like you are starting your branding process over from the beginning, and though it will be a lot faster this time around (there is a…
4 Tips For Visual Consistency: A Quick and Dirty Guide to Unifying Your Marketing Materials
Maintaining a consistent visual presence is hard. Creating a quick brand guide can help you ensure everyone in your organization is maintaining a consistency in all of your marketing materials. Here’s how to get started in 4 simple steps! 1. Pick 1-2 fonts You do not need to be a typographic guru to know what…
Mood Board Your Brand or Vision: A How to Guide
A mood or vision board can be a lot of things, but the most successful are small collages that end up feeling a little like an art therapy exercise. Building a brand is hard. Mood boarding is a great way to help you and your team build a visual language that both communicates clearly and…
Why Story-Telling Works
Educating…I mean Engaging Your Community We throw around this idea of using stories to engage your community, audience, and site users a lot. I would say, most people take for granted that this is true and that it works to keep people interested in what you are talking about, but do you know why?
What is Design Thinking?
What Does Designful Thinking Mean? I read the below excerpt by Holly Willis, a Design Educator who spoke at a recent AIGA conference and thought it was a really good way of explaining what I mean when I say “Designful Thinking” — a term being used a lot lately to describe how design can be applied…
Sharing Ideas Builds Community
I find myself so often telling clients that the most important thing they can do is to share ideas with other experts in their field. Partially, I say this because the internet is “word of mouth” and is the most powerful grassroots tool available. I also say this because as they read, share and interact…