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Tag: Logo

(Just) Logo Is Not Branding

… branding is more than that. Actually if you are able send your brand message to your customers without the presence of your logo, you’re on the right way. I don’t say here that a logo is not needed, but if your (potential) customers are able to sense your brand from every message you send towards them, then, as said, you’re on the right way.

Here is an example of that from Martin Lindstrom:

…branding is much more than developing a familiar consumer image.

I realized a couple of years ago, when one of my colleagues was asked by a major U.S. airline to write a standard announcement to be used by the airline’s captains, that many operational elements, as well as deliberate promotional strategies, are all integral to branding and the establishment of image and identity.

The speech was carefully composed incorporating the advice of a psychologist and a marketing expert, and the writing of one of the country’s best copywriters. The aim was to achieve an announcement that would carry the airline’s image message to the passenger, just as the company’s logo did. This event made me realize the full potential of branding: the 360 degrees that I briefly discussed last week. And 360-degree branding is everything.

Full article here.

Posted on October 3, 2011 by danielneamu 0

Logorama – the movie

In case you missed it so far, a must see movie for any branding fan out there. Police chase an armed criminal in a version of Los Angeles comprised entirely of corporate logos.

This is a short film that was directed by the French animation collective H5, François Alaux, Hervé de Crécy + Ludovic Houplain. It was presented at the Cannes Film Festival 2009. It opened the 2010 Sundance Film Festival and won a 2010 academy award under the category of animated short. Continue reading →

Posted on April 10, 2010 by danielneamu 0

What is the real worth of your logo?

Logo designing is that part of branding which may cost you from nothing to thousands of dollars. What makes a logo designing to become so expensive or become very cheap? There are several factors involved. Normal business owner may have difficult time knowing what he should pay someone for designing a logo. Some think thousands of dollars is fine with the logo, while other will consider it a very expensive deal.

So the question arises here how much you should pay for a logo? Answer of this question is difficult, because there are several factors behind it. Now, let’s see what are the major factors which influence the cost of your logo?

Price should not be the first consideration

Price is often considered first while going for a custom logo design. It is fine if you go for a cheap logo design. But think before how much importance a logo can have for your business. Your logo is going to be placed on the mediums like stationary, website, promotional material and so on. These marketing collaterals make your customer comes into contact with you and builds an image about your company. Therefore, spending very low amount may not be reasonable, but spending thousands of dollars also doesn’t make sense. The better option is to spend in between $100 to $500. You will possibly use your logo for at least 10 years, and if you divide cost with the number of months, it only comes out to a few dollars a month. By having these thoughts in mind it is clear that price should not be considered as the major factor among other important aspects.

Must check the Level of Service

Service level should be considered on top while selecting a logo design service. It’s usually depends on the package you select. The more you pay the more service options you will get. The service level of a company can be determine by the number of designers who will design your logo, the number of round of revisions (requests for changes), and the number of initial concepts provided at first round. In addition, money back guarantee is also an important element that should be considered if you don’t like the design or if they don’t deliver your work on time.

Design quality is one important factor

Design quality is one other major factor that determines the worth of your logo. If you are agreed on paying $1000, it means you also make sure to get the value of your money back in shape of a great design. To assure the quality of design, you should check out the design portfolio of the company, the testimonials written by the customers, and the experience and knowledge they have about logo designing.

Location of a company saves you from future consequences

Company’s location provides great deal of advantages to the business owners. If you hire any designer who is located outside your country, for example, China or India, it would nearly impossible for you to take legal action against him if you unluckily come under the case of trademark infringement. Moreover, a design company which is located in the country same as yours, it is an advantage for you because they can understand the need of the local market, and at the end you will get a logo according to your local marketplace.

Remember

considering price, hiring a logo designer, and getting the final formats – for all this you pay some amount that may be higher or lower, but besides designing, your logo is that element which give your company an identity, therefore no matter how much you pay but if you don’t get your logo according to your business and target market, all the money you spend will be wasted. Hence, spend considerable amount of time on searching a suitable logo design company before hiring one.

This is guest post from Ben Johnson of Logoinn, custom logo design service provider based in UK.

Posted on May 25, 2009 by danielneamu 2

Pepsi Rebranding – The Explanation

 

I mentioned here the much discussed Pepsi Rebranding.

Fast Company revealed a leaked pdf that outlines the thinking behind the controversial new Pepsi logo.

If with this the designer team is trying to get excuses for their results and 5 months of working or the million dollar invoice, then they should listen to what everybody comment on this: it is a lame excuse.

Mixing gravitation in the Pepsi galaxy, energy fields, relativity of space and time, some mythical perfect proportions, some da Vinci Code and some smiley faces the document is trying, without a final conclusion, to make us stand up in ovation by the end of the reading.

Well, we will stand up…. And leave.

pepsi2

Download the document here.

Posted on February 11, 2009 by danielneamu 2

Animal Planet Logo Change

You might consider me very late on this, and in a way I probably am. I usually not giving bad comments on brands and logos, but this time, almost a year later, I couldn’t stop myself doing it. I tyried to watch a show on Animal Planet last night. Well I pretty much couldn’t… or better say I didn’t enjoy it. I was totally and definitely annoyed by their new (well, already old logo).

I honestly consider it one of the ugliest rebrands, redesigns of a logo, I have ever seen.  The letters which take on different weights, colors and textures are sending me the message of a unfinished draft logo on a designer table that still has long way to go until done.

Animal Planet Logo Change
Animal Planet Logo Change

All these even though the new logo was designed by Dunning Eley Jones, a London-based design firm with plenty of experience in TV branding.  I am just curious if any of my readers here, see any of the message in this logo.

The lucky thing is that the Discovery Channel logo change wasn’t such a failure, on the opposite.

Discovery Channel Logo Change
Discovery Channel Logo Change
Posted on January 5, 2009 by danielneamu 18

Key Brand Elements

There were probably mentioned before, one way or another all across this blog, and not only. I just feel the need to remind them and put them in a structure. No brand can live without them, all efficient brands have them.

The most important elements of a brand should be:

Brand Position

  • Who is addressed by company’s branded products or services. What the company does and for whom
  • The company’s unique value and how customers benefit from products and/or services
  • Key competitive differentiators, what makes the brand be chosen, be different from its competitors

Brand Promise

  • The ONE most important thing that the brand promises to deliver to its customers — Every time!
  • What customers and partners should expect from every interaction, how should they feel as brand’s customers

Brand Personality

  • What the brand is to be known for
  • Personality traits that customers, partners, and employees use to describe the company. What comes to the (potential) customer’s mind when addressed about the brand

Brand Story

  • The company’s history and how the history adds value and credibility to the brand
  • A summary of products/services/solutions

Brand Associations

  • Physical artifacts: name, logo, colors, taglines, fonts, imagery
  • Ideally, it must reflect the all the above statements about the brand and the company
Posted on November 17, 2008 by danielneamu 0

Connect the Branding Dots

Logos, websites and marketing materials have to work together to create a positive impression – and put money in your pocket.

Trust means your future customers believe you’re likely to be honest and competent, and will deliver a good experience. Sometimes trust comes from friends telling friends they had a great experience. But most of your future customers wont have word-of-mouth to rely on. They have to decide on their own whom to trust. Thats the mission of your logo, website or brochure, to create your business dress and body language–your visual branding.

Here are a few basics to help your business look credible:

  1. Go for simplicity and lack of clutter. (Think Apple, the master of simplicity in branding.)
  2. Create or demand a clean, well-balanced graphic design.
  3. Use one or two basic colors that go well together, not a hodgepodge.
  4. Choose one font and stick with it. You can express almost anything by using variations within a single font family: size, weight (boldness), italics, etc. If you really must, choose a second font for major headlines. But first try it with one font.
  5. Coordinate a single look – design, colors, etc. – across everything you do, including your logo, website, brochures, ads and signage.
Posted on November 17, 2008 by danielneamu 0

Pepsi Rebrading

After seeing decreases in sales in different beverage categories Pepsi has decided to its branding to work and help revamp the lost glory.

It’s not the firs nor the last of big brands that seems to think that their slumping sales will recover by slight changes in their branding. I’m not sure that this is the right answer or just an effort in the wrong direction at not the right time.

It took the designers five months to finalize the (new?) iconic logo. Five months and $1 million dollars for the design.

The purpose of the rebranding? “Making the logo more dynamic and more alive … [it is] absolutely a huge step in the right direction” said Frank Cooper, Pepsi’s VP-portfolio brands

So far, branding experts are in both camps. “It’s tilting the whole brand presentation from a classic expression of uniqueness and quality into something that is much more humorous, almost flippant,” said Tony Spaeth, an identity consultant. “It worries me that it is less durable, less permanent and classic. It comes across as more of a campaign idea than an enduring brand expression.” 

The new logo is Pepsi’s 11th in its 110-year history. Five logos have been introduced in the past 21 years, with the last update in 2002. 

Pepsi Logo
Pepsi Logo
Posted on October 29, 2008 by danielneamu 0

Band Branding

A very interesting article in NY Times, couple of days ago, on how (co) branding and nowadays marketing strategies had changed the way music industry is running its business. It is focused especially on names and bands “whose generation embraced the anti-big-business motto “never trust anyone over 30” in the 1960s, toots the corporate horn” nowadays.

Band branding appears to know no bounds. The Black Crowes market rolling papers, Bon Jovi offers $1,000 signed canvas art prints and Mötley Crüe peddled Mötley Brüe, a carbonated drink. Celebration Cellars, a California winemaker, teamed up with several rockers, including Bon Jovi, Kiss, Madonna and the Rolling Stones, to issue special-edition wines that feature band logos and sell for $100 or more a bottle.

branding lucre rolling in for those who do choose to indulge, some record labels are pressuring artists to share their promotional and merchandising income as a condition of getting record contracts — so-called 360 deals.

Continue reading →

Posted on October 30, 2007 by danielneamu 0

4+1 Key Lessons About Branding

Mary Foley, author of Bodacious: An AOL Insider Cracks the Code to Outrageous Success for Women, has an interesting list of 5 key lessons she learned about branding while working at AOL:

  1. Every company has a brand. The question is, “Is it working for you?” Creating a brand isn’t just for the big companies; it’s for companies of all sizes.
  2. Your brand must evoke a strong emotion. Customers buy from emotion and back it up with their head.
  3. Your brand isn’t a logo. It’s everything you offer, say, and do.
  4.  Your brand needs constant tweaking. You have to start somewhere. So, you launch your company and brand, see what works, and you keep adjusting. What ultimately matters is what the customer thinks and feels.

Okay, I skipped the 4th point, I’ll let you (ladies) go to the original post and find it.

Posted on February 15, 2007 by danielneamu 1

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