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Understanding the strengths, limitations, and characteristics of brand mark types helps determine which one—or ones—best fit each logo design project.
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Ir al tema BrandingUnderstanding the strengths, limitations, and characteristics of brand mark types helps determine which one—or ones—best fit each logo design project.
Are “logo” and “logotype” the same thing? Where did these words come from, and what do they refer to today?
A key requirement for effectively evaluating and creating logos and brand marks.
Keys to analyzing and designing logos for supermarket packaging.
Not all logos serve the same purpose. Understanding their functions is key to designing effective visual identities aligned with their goals.
Since nutritional information became important and popular concern about it grew dramatically, many food brands have foreseen this as an opportunity to build their identity.
The advantage of agreeing with the client the sectorial diagnostic and the typological selection before proceeding to the brand's design.
We all have ideas. Some have great ideas. What is the difference between an idea and a big idea?
Communicates' design as a mean to the conquest of plausibility: sender and referent transparency.
A brand choice conditioned by the profile of the organization and its communication.
This article analyzes the lack of information available to the design awards jury, and how that compromises their ability to actually evaluate the value of a project.
The typological role in identity reference.
The interprofessional critique taboo: insecurity, paranoia and corporatism refuge.
The commercial brand was born 3500 years ago.First it was a sign, then a meaning, later a TV story in 30 seconds. Today, it is a complex social and transmedial phenomenon.
The combined role of programmatic restrictions and creativity in the accomplishment of message effectiveness.
A recommended structure for designing a political campaign.
Design's aesthetic quality increases value for products and brands, making them more desirable.
Somebody has a problem and somebody has the answer to that problem, but... ¿How can we do to meet this couple?
To diagnose the “health state” of a client's brand is essential to tackle it's effective redesign.
After the “premium” stage where design acts as quality mark, good design should become a “commodity”, a component of the welfare society we take for granted.
“Make it clear.” This fundamental assumption of communication would seem to be an attainable goal. Objectify the audience, understand their desires—appeal to their interests, eliminate the extraneous and presto “effective communication.” Well, maybe not.
A question to which creative entrepreneurs have no answer to: the value of their proposal.
We launch the the first excellence awards for design, branding and communication professionals in Latin America.
Minimalism requires to decide on what is really necessary from what is not.
Craft beers are opting for innovative designs, focusing more on communicating their quality and craftsmanship than denote European tradition.
Corporate identity design is changing. There are designers for whom quantity matters more than quality.
Although to eradicate packaging waste may sound impossible to achieve, sustainability is a path to take and make improvements over time to reduce environmental impact.
Bad communication is a problem that we experience every day. Design plays an important role in communication and should be congruent.
Who doesn't want to feel passion for what he or she likes, and loves?
If you ever have the fortune of working for a restaurant, you will have to think in a different way.
Lots of clients ask us for «modern» designs. How healthy is it for the client's wallet, or our own, to follow imposed trends?
A recognized puppet theater from Lima, multi-award winning internationally, active for half a century, is claiming against Channel 7 TV Perust for usurping their brand.
Understanding how our perception works and how it affects us is the clue to produce really effective messages, not just award-winning ones.
Being efficacious entails doing the right things; being efficient, doing them correctly. Being effective means being efficacious and efficient.
We don't need to manage the present but we should lead the future.
Can we design to unbrand instead of branding? It'd be convenient to «self-design» ourselves through our own ways of using, without others marking us with their ways of design.
My job, designing brands for clients with global reach, involves a different approach from that of a traditional designer.
Every company needs names for their business, for their products, for their services, for their procedures, and even for their mascots (if they have them)!
Branding is connected with brand image, positioning and reputation. It is the result of an endless list of marketing and design strategies.
Clarifying the role of DT in the design process and the correct use by the designer.
Though it sounds quite obvious, to start any design process it is necessary analysis and strategic thinking.
In the market there are good and bad designers, good and bad clients, all sort of competition and prices. All of them are some of the components of the game to play.
Though we can learn from many designers, few have left us a legacy more clear and visible.
New ambients and spaces go along with habit and behavior changes in people. In this scenario: what is the role of technology?
Packaging desing specialty revolutionizes during mega sport events.
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