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Colin Finkle speaks with Rhonda Merchant, Director of Talent Acquisition at Main Event. How tapping into a consumer rebrand reduced hiring costs and turnover.
Designing a logo that is unique, memorable, and means something to skiers and snowboarders. Colin Finkle shares his graphic design process: frame-storming, gathering reference material, ideating, honing, and assessing.
An inside look the deals between manufacturers and retailers involving brands. Private labels have been a constant part of my decade of experience in retail marketing. Most of the brands I worked with were all owned by manufacturers and some were owned by distributors. The manufacturers were making, marketing, and Read more…
Brit Morin, the founder and CEO of Brit+Co, spotted the influencer brand movement before anyone else has. She has built a community of millennial and gen z women, a demographic that is abandoning legacy brands.
It helps when naming your business if you know the types of brand names. All of the 300+ million company names fall into one of these categories 7 categories: eponymous, descriptive, acronymic, suggestive, associative, non-English and abstract. We talk about 77 real world examples.
The colors of logos in 2019 are both vivid and neutral. We are providing 45 logo color combinations that are free for you to use. We explore colors for corporate, sporty, elegant, and youthful logo.
Let’s learn what makes an exceptional logo by analyzing the Anthem logo. The Anthem logo checks all the boxes I look for when I design or evaluate a logo. The things that make a logo great are not what most people look for, and I outline that in a previous Read more…
More than half (62-90%) of a customers judgement of a brand comes from color. To choose the best colors for a logo or a brand, a graphic designer needs to consider context, competition, culture, contrast, color gamut, and company.
Knowing the trends forcing companies to rebrand will help you develop better logos. Executive Summary | Abstract | TL;DR We used notable corporate rebrandings of the last year to signal logo design trends because there are reasons big organizations spend money on rebranding to certain logos. The overall trends are Read more…
From community college classroom $100 M in sales; DC Shoes’ grind to become one of the most iconic lifestyle brands. DC Shoes is a brand with deep associations to the skateboarder lifestyle. If you are not aware of DC Shoes, you might assume they just sell shoes, but they have Read more…