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Brand Strategy and the Value of Creative Design

March 31, 2015 —

Brand Strategy and the Value of Creative Design

At Emotive Brand, we are keenly aware of the symbiotic relationship between brand strategy and creative design. In the traditional model, the company leadership team aligns on a new brand strategy and design brings it to life. You know the drill: new logo, new color scheme, new typography, new website. But there’s a deeper relationship between strategy and design that yields more meaningful, more memorable results. Creative design is not an appendage of brand strategy. Fundamentally, design IS strategy and strategy IS design. At least that’s how it works at Emotive Brand. Design in...
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Bad Blind Graphic Design Date

April 16, 2013 —

Bad Blind Graphic Design Date

One of the new constants of modern life is graphic design. It was with us before, in newspapers and magazines, bus billboards, and the whole gamut of corporate communications. Now the web and mobile have splashed graphic design everywhere we look – but we seem to be looking with half-closed eyes. Plenty of people have written (not saying “complained”) about how the web and mobile have degraded language. Blogs, email, and texting have made us all writers, so we’ve stopped making much of a distinction among ourselves in that regard. We’re in a hurry, we don’t have editors and proofreaders, and...
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March 14, 2013 —

Emotive Branding: The Path to Meaning (and Kick-Ass Creative)

At Emotive Brand our goal is to make brands truly meaningful through emotive branding. Emotive branding is about transforming the way a brand reaches out to people and the way people respond back to that brand. The key is meaning. As we add meaning to the things a brand does, the people vital to that brand’s success start to care, think, talk and do more for the brand. As a result, emotive brands thrive across all business measures. But what is meaning? And, perhaps more important, how do we add meaning to brands through emotive branding? We focus on meaning because we noticed the remarkable...
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When Businesses Truly Matter, Logos Don’t Matter At All

June 2, 2012 —

When Businesses Truly Matter, Logos Don’t Matter At All

Brands are much more than just a logo. We spotted this great report at Fast Company about Virgin Group’s new global HQ in London. The theme was how Virgin cleverly managed to convey the brand’s values through workplace design, without using the “brand” as so many people think about it. That’s right. Take a look, there’s no logo proclaiming the “proud” owner. Virgin has inspired us for years by their way of building meaningful bridges between their business units and their employees and customers. We believe they are vanguards of an idea...
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