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Branded Logo Design Services
Elevate your business with Branded Logo Design, Style Guides and Essential Branding Materials to maximize Conversions.
Custom Logo Design: Communicate Value with Branding
The goal of branding is to convey your value to customers and separate yourself (in a meaningful way) from your competitors. And, lets be clear, your logo is not your brand… a brand is the place a business/service holds in the hearts and minds of customers (the market). It can also be 'quantified' as whatever people say about it when they (or you) you leave the room. How customers feel after benefiting or having success with your service, product or business; THAT is your 'brand'.
Now, where does logo and graphic design fall in the mix? Keystone elements like your logo, symbols, iconography, standardized typography and color palettes set the tone; it tells prospective customers what can be expected when they trade their money for your service. Your branded graphics should capture the attention (and heart) of potential customers by communicating the promise of an exceptional and transformative experience.
Great, custom logo design can establish your brand identity visually and communicate your core values in an interesting way. Being the foundation of your branding scheme, your logo sets the stage for your story. Core design elements (colors, accents and fonts) translate into other branding materials, creating a visual brand identity that is memorable and meaningful.
North Star Design Studio also helps ensure brand consistency be developing comprehensive style guides that are easy for your team to understand and offering collateral audits for existing materials. Partner with us to make the right branding strategy and create a design process through style guides, advertising, and other printed materials.
Branded Style Guides
Create a Meticulous Style Guide for Uniform Branding
Enhance the impact of your branding with a custom style guide to help vendors and team members consistently represent your business across various media in a consistent way. Work with our team to create best practice templates, type and usage rules and establish review processes that gives you control over your visual brand identity. Keep the whole team in the loop and on-brand with detailed digital guidelines that cover:
Brand Color Guidelines
Define your brand's color palette derived from the color wheel, with one primary brand color and some secondary shades. Depending on the nature of your business, we might recommend using a specific color connotation and color scheme to add vitality to your brand representation.
Typography Details
Decide on typography details like fonts or types of fonts to be used, their sizes, height or spacing. The branding guide may also define which types of display fonts, script fonts or calligraphic fonts should be used (or not used) as well as acceptable substitutions.
Brand Voice
Partner with us to find the style that resonates with your audience and reflects your brand identity. Define Mission, Affiliate and Partner statements as well as 'if this/then that' scenarios for commonly used brand statements. Have guidlines from third-arty affilaites that need to be adhered too? We can incorporate those too!
Image and Data Visualization
Your brand should reflect in the imagery you choose. Our style guide provides guidelines on choosing appropriate photos, illustrations, charts, and infographics.
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Graphic Design: Branded Essentials
Improve your brand recognition through essential branding materials like online profile graphics, handbooks, promotional items, packaging and more
Graphics can make or break a brand… if products aren't 'on brand' then they might be a waste of money and hurting your brand by confusing potential customers. North Star's team of experienced graphic designers have the design skills needed to enhance your brand profitability by keeping your messaging relevant and enticing to new and current clients.
More than just 'pretty' pictures, great graphic design will enhance your brand's appeal by ensuring your message and services are delivered in a consistent and appealing way while keeping an eye 'toward the future' to present new trends and provide heads-up when industry shifts can be leveraged in your favor.
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Branding provides (emotional) context to your organization, company, product, or service. It's a strategy that helps people to choose one brand over another.
Branding aims to build trust within a market that helps attract and retain loyal customers. Good branding will convey your value proposition to customers and separate you (in a meaningful way) from your competitors.
Branding can help you build trust in three main ways:
It makes your company stand out from the competition. If you have a strong visual identity and an identifiable brand that people can easily recognize, it's easier for them to remember you and your product. And if they remember you and your product well, they'll be more likely to buy from you again.
It makes people feel like they know more about what's going on in your world. If someone sees that you've branded yourself as "the coffee shop with great music" or "the hotel that caters to pets," they'll naturally feel like they know what to expect from you. And if they know what to expect, they'll feel more comfortable doing business with you and recommending you to others!
It gives people a reason to trust that what they see is true. When someone knows what they're looking at is genuine, they're more likely to believe in that business's process and ability to get results.
There are four key principles of branding:
Understand your audience: If you don't know your audience, you will never be able to reach them. What problems are they facing? What mistakes have they made trying to fix that problem before? What do they care about beyond your specific service? What gets them excited? What makes them angry?
Find Out What Makes You Unique: In today's competitive environment, your potential customers are bombarded by hundreds of marketing messages from your competitors and alternative services. Be clear about what makes you stand out and why your solution is the best solution.. Your brand differentiator could be a unique aspect, feature, or specific benefit that sets you apart from your competitors. What do prospective clients need to know to decide you’re the best option for them!
Your Values and Mission: Define your brand by establishing brand purpose, values, and brand personality. Clearly describe and communicate your values, mission, and brand purpose to your audience. For example; are you a cosmetic company committed to sustainable ingredients/packaging or are you a landscaping company that specializes in organic foliates vs spraying pesticides?
Visual Identity: Visual identity refers to all the visuals displayed for your target audience. It includes images, infographics, a logo, and website design. Do these materials paint an accurate picture of who you are as a brand when put together?
Brand Strategy is a plan for the development of a successful brand that appeals to your ideal customer. The first step in the development of a brand strategy is to identify both your ideal client and your core business objectives.The business owner must also identify the target audience to strengthen the brand's effectiveness. After developing a particular branding strategy, it should be implemented at all levels.
The brand design comes after clarifying your brand strategy. It refers to all the visual elements of a brand. At North Star Design Studio, we offer state-of-the-art brand design services for our clients. In fact, we require our brand design clients to have some basic foundation for their brand strategy before they book with us. Once a client is on board, we discuss and clarify their brand strategy to develop the branded design for their business.
If you would like to work with an experienced brand designer to bring your dream brand strategy to life, get in touch with us today.