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Branding & Identity

A brand isa decision system.

Not a logo, and not a mood board. The output is a set of rules specific enough that your next hire, your next deck, and your next ad campaign all look like they came from the same company.

Specimen sheet

Aa

Display / 72

Aa

Heading / 32

Aa

Body / 16

Ink

Depth

Signal

Paper

The stress test

A mark is only finished once it survives all five.

Favicon

16px

App icon

512px

Ad creative

1080px

Signage

3m

Merch

1 colour

The smallest it will ever be rendered. If the mark dies here, it is the wrong mark.

Squared, rounded, and sitting next to twenty competitors on a home screen.

Cropped, overlaid with copy, and seen for under a second at a time.

Single colour, no gradients, and judged from across a room.

Embroidered or screen printed, where every fine detail disappears.

What the engagement includes

Rules specific enough to be followed.

A brand fails in execution, not in the presentation. Everything here is built to be usable by people who were not in the room when it was designed.

01

Positioning and audience

Who it is for, what it replaces, and why it wins. Every visual decision downstream is arbitrary until these three are settled in writing.

02

Messaging framework

Value proposition, proof points, objection handling, and tone rules. The document your sales deck, your site, and your ads all draw from.

03

Naming, when it is needed

Candidate generation, linguistic screening, and preliminary trademark and domain checks. We will also tell you when your existing name is fine and the money is better spent elsewhere.

04

Identity system

Primary mark, responsive lockups, typography, colour with contrast pairs that pass WCAG, iconography, and layout grids — as a system with rules, not a folder of files.

05

Applied to real surfaces

The identity designed against your actual website, product UI, ad formats, and deck. Marks that only exist on a presentation background break the first week they ship.

06

Guidelines and handover

A guidelines document plus editable source files and exported assets in every format. Written so a new designer or agency can be correct without asking us.

3–6 wks

Identity engagement

5

Surfaces stress-tested

Editable

Source files, all of them

Yours

Trademark-clear marks

An identity earns its cost on the surfaces that use it — the website it ships on, the product interface behind the login, and the social content produced against it every week. Brands we have built are on the work index.

FAQ

Questions about brand work.

How long does a branding engagement take?

Three to six weeks for identity work on an existing, settled positioning. Add two to three weeks if positioning and messaging need to be worked out first, and more again if naming is in scope.

Do we need a rebrand or just a refresh?

Usually a refresh. A full rebrand is justified when the positioning genuinely changed, when the name blocks you legally or in search, or when the identity actively misrepresents what you now sell. Otherwise you are discarding recognition you already paid for.

Do you handle trademark registration?

We run preliminary screening on names and marks and flag obvious conflicts, then work alongside your IP counsel. We are designers, not attorneys, and we will not pretend otherwise on something this expensive to get wrong.

What files do we get?

Editable source files, logo exports in every format and lockup, typography licences documented, colour tokens in hex, RGB, CMYK and design-token form, and a guidelines document.

Can you apply the brand to our website and product?

Yes, and it is where most of the value shows up. The same team does the web design and the product UI, so the identity gets implemented rather than interpreted.

Do you present multiple logo concepts?

Two or three directions, each fully reasoned rather than presented as an option pile. Ten unexplained variations makes the decision a matter of taste, which is how brands end up incoherent.

Book a brand session not a pitch.

Thirty minutes on your positioning and where the current identity breaks. You leave with a clear read on whether you need a refresh, a rebrand, or neither.