Visual Identity: Complete guide to branding

A comprehensive compilation of brand design, visual identity design, corporate identity, etc. Learn everything you need to know about visual identity and brand creation, with the best thought-provoking articles, case studies, book references, discussions and advice.

How to Choose the Right Type for Your Logo
Understanding the strengths, limitations, and characteristics of brand mark types helps determine which one—or ones—best fit each logo design project.
What is a Logotype and What is a Logo
Are “logo” and “logotype” the same thing? Where did these words come from, and what do they refer to today?
Typological Thinking in Logo Design
A key requirement for effectively evaluating and creating logos and brand marks.
Product Logos: How to Analyze and Design Them
Keys to analyzing and designing logos for supermarket packaging.
Logo Functions
Not all brands are used for the same purposes. Knowing in detail the functions that they must fulfill, is essential to design them well.
Healthy Food has Changed Packaging Design
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.
Corporate Brand: Selling a Design or Transfering a Resource?
The advantage of agreeing with the client the sectorial diagnostic and the typological selection before proceeding to the brand's design.
The Casting Session
Commercial spot for a brand campaign.
Every Logo Should Be…
Twelve supposedly «universal» rules in brand identity design.
With or Without a Graphic Symbol
A brand choice conditioned by the profile of the organization and its communication.
Verbal/Non Verbal as an Identifying Polarity
The typological role in identity reference.
Birth and Evolution of the Brand in 7 Steps
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.
Holistic and Bimodal Study in Packaging
The application of a multi sensorial study of packaging puts us nearer, more accurately, to a brand's global perception.
And, How My Client's Brand is Doing?
To diagnose the “health state” of a client's brand is essential to tackle it's effective redesign.
Logos to Go
Corporate identity design is changing. There are designers for whom quantity matters more than quality.
What Does My Design Communicate?
Bad communication is a problem that we experience every day. Design plays an important role in communication and should be congruent.
Designing for Restaurants
If you ever have the fortune of working for a restaurant, you will have to think in a different way.
Vindicating Handwriting
Design is often associated with normalization and sterilization. But handwriting is still a good way to reconnect with our roots and recover vitality.
Do We Really Know What a Graphic Brand Conveys?
If we really know the meaning of a graphic brand, will we be closer to know what is probably being created in the public's mind?
Branding Types
Branding is connected with brand image, positioning and reputation. It is the result of an endless list of marketing and design strategies.