Jul 20

Social media has changed the way brands interact with consumers. As our relationships with brands increasingly reflect our personal ones, trust, more than ever, is key for sustained loyalty.

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Mar 28

In previous entries, we’ve examined the ways that a brand extends beyond a logo. Your brand is the emotional response it creates in a person and the catalyst for this response is the elements within your brand’s identity system. The key to successful brands is clarity and cohesion. These are all achieved by having a strong system in which to implement your brand. Today we want to talk about what a brand identity system is and examine some of the elements that make up a system.


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Dec 15

I’m sure this is not the first time you’ve heard about the importance of good Search Engine Optimization (SEO) for your brand’s digital presence. According to media company Fleishman-Hillard, 89% of customers begin their purchasing process via search engine. No matter the industry, if someone is looking to hire a vendor for architecture, construction, design or to purchase a new product, their journey most likely begins with a need and that iconic, minimalist Google page.

User Experience (UX)is carefully researched design decisions that guide a user to quickly and easily get what they need. In a similar manner, search engine results work the same way. So how can these informed design principles be used to optimize your brand’s search engine results?

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Sep 27

Picking a name can seem like a daunting task. Whether it’s for your child, your band, your social media handle or your brand you know you have to get it right. Today we’re going to talk about the latter, your brand, since we are a Boulder branding agency after all. As with anything else, when building a new brand from scratch we always start with strategy. We’ll help you get a better understanding of your brand and flesh out your vision. Once this is done and you’re left with a handful of names to choose from, how do you pick the one that’s perfect for your brand? Here’s a few tricks we like to suggest to pinpoint the name that’s right for you:

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Dec 8

I’m sure at this point most people are familiar with the arrow hidden between the “E” and the “X” in the FedEx logo. In fact, a lot of the most famous and recognizable logo designs have some sort of hidden symbolism embedded in them. Symbolism is an important part of creating a logo concept. Whether it’s direct or indirect, incorporating symbols can communicate your brand to customers in an instant. Here’s a few examples of some of our favorite famous logo designs and the hidden symbolism behind the concept.

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Oct 27

As we’ve mentioned before, a brand goes well beyond the logo and your website is a very important element in your overall brand’s identity system. Most likely your website is one of the first interactions potential customers have with your brand. Making a good first impression is important to your brands success and good consistency across your entire identity system is key to creating brand loyalty.

So when’s the last time you evaluated your website? If it’s been a while, here’s a few signs you’re ready for a website redesign.

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Sep 21

Underneath every great brand is a plethora of research, data and strategy. It’s not a stretch to say that the science of psychology also plays a big role in achieving an overall brand strategy platform. . Every detail of the brand is meticulously thought out with human behavior in mind. If it’s done well, you won’t even notice what happens behind the scenes to set your brand up for success. From color to social psychology, brands (and their creative agencies) use atrategy to create a lasting emotional connection with consumers, well, the good ones do.

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Aug 14

Calling all members of the LGBT+ community with graduate degrees looking for job placement! 

We have an awesome opportunity for you to link with one of our amazing non-profit clients, Reaching Out. 

Our relationship with Reaching Out began in a very competitive RFP process that we are so proud to have won. We partnered with Twisted Simple to create a non-profit site design on par with Reaching Out’s mission to provide a safe space for LGBT+ individuals to come together as a community and support each other while navigating the daunting job placement journey that accompanies attending MBA programs. 

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Jun 25

There are a few companies that are trying to correct America’s checkered history of overtly hurtful and racist imagery in branding, especially in packaged goods. Aunt Jemima, Mrs. Butterworth’s, Cream of Wheat and Uncle Ben’s are confronting an inevitable brand overhaul due to decades of having a visual identity rooted in American racism. Momentum away from racialized branding has been growing for decades, but the Black Lives Matter movement has jolted these big brands into reality and rightfully has them thinking about the implications of using carryover tropes of the Jim Crow era to build brand loyalty.

 

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Jun 18

Everything has changed.

One minute your plan for an upcoming tradeshow is all set to go, and the next minute the mere prospect of large scale in person events is obsolete. This year has flipped everything on its head and has left many of us with the question, “What are we supposed to do now?”

 

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