{"id":1226,"date":"2018-08-20T22:10:44","date_gmt":"2018-08-20T22:10:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.realworldconsulting.kiwi\/rwc\/?p=1226"},"modified":"2018-08-20T22:10:44","modified_gmt":"2018-08-20T22:10:44","slug":"pivotal-elements-of-a-brand-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.realworldconsulting.kiwi\/rwc\/rwc-blog\/pivotal-elements-of-a-brand-design\/","title":{"rendered":"Pivotal Elements of a Brand Design"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Over the years I&#8217;ve worked with some highly competent and creative marketing agencies, including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.farrimond.co.nz\/\">this one<\/a> &#8211; based in Parnel, Auckland. Its &#8220;A-Lister&#8221; clientele includes the following brands: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.farrimond.co.nz\/our-clients\">Farrimond client brands<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">I&#8217;ve been involved in brand design for around 20 years, and have contributed directly to the design and development (and sometimes redevelopment) of a good number of brands.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Time after time I see simple mistakes made in brand design, and I&#8217;d like to try and help prevent these from happening.\u00a0I&#8217;d like to share what I&#8217;ve learned about effective brand (emblem\/ logo) design. The following are the properties\/ elements\/ qualities that I&#8217;ve come to learn matter most when designing a brand &#8211; irrespective of whether the brand is to apply to a business, a service or a product.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Most importantly, <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">brands are created in the mind<\/span><\/strong>. Image and perception help drive value \u2013 without image and perception there is no value. Hence the term \u201cperceived value\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">An effective brand possesses these qualities:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Is distinctly unique in its design<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Is simplistic in its construct \u2013 and comprises only a small number of elements and range of colour<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Is easy for a viewer to distinguish what it is<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Is easy for a viewer to associate it with the nature of business that it represents<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Is memorable<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Stands-out\u2026has cut-through among other brands<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Is easily scalable (whilst retaining legibility) and can be applied to a wide range of usage situations (e.g. QR Codes, banners, car signage, print advertising, etc)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Has \u201cvalues\u201d and a \u201cpersona\u201d associated with it<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Always, after finalising your brand design ready for commercial application, <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>register your design as a Trade mark with the Intellectual Property Office<\/strong><\/span>. It doesn&#8217;t make sense to invest considerable time, mental effort and $ to create a business brand logo\/ emblem, only to then overlook protecting your intellectual property interests in relation to it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the years I&#8217;ve worked with some highly competent and creative marketing agencies, including this one &#8211; based in Parnel, Auckland. Its &#8220;A-Lister&#8221; clientele includes the following brands: Farrimond client brands I&#8217;ve been involved in brand design for around 20 years, and have contributed directly to the design and development (and sometimes redevelopment) of a good number of brands. Time after time I see simple mistakes made in brand design, and I&#8217;d like to try and help prevent these from&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realworldconsulting.kiwi\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1226"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realworldconsulting.kiwi\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realworldconsulting.kiwi\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realworldconsulting.kiwi\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realworldconsulting.kiwi\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1226"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.realworldconsulting.kiwi\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1227,"href":"https:\/\/www.realworldconsulting.kiwi\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1226\/revisions\/1227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realworldconsulting.kiwi\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realworldconsulting.kiwi\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realworldconsulting.kiwi\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}