Brand Guidelines

Thorough brand guidelines are essential to align teams and customer touchpoints. Your brand guidelines need to capture your brand identity, as well as your messaging, visuals and applications. They should comprehensively inform your branding efforts.
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Crafting Your Brand Guidelines

Perfect Brand Alignment

Communicating and reinforcing brand guidelines via training and by giving your employees digital access helps to ensure brand alignment across all your operations.
However, brand guidelines only engage your employees when they’re embraced holistically, and they need to be properly crafted for that to happen!

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Creative & Holistic Design

Our design experts can identify the components that are missing in your current guidelines, and come up with effective strategies to breathe new life into them.
Furthermore, as an end-to-end agency, we can also marry their creativity with the input of our wider marketing teams. As Your Partner in Digital, we really are best placed to create something that not only looks great, but that delivers too.
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Brand Identity Overview

Professional Fundraiser brand guidelines

We’ll conduct a comprehensive brand identity overview that captures all of the key components within visual identity elements like logos, colour palettes (including accessibility), typography (including spacing and sizing), iconography and graphic styles. This foundational overview will form the reference point for all our future designs.

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Brand Story & Personality

CoE brand guidelines

Using storytelling to articulate brand heritage, mission, personality and values can really help your employees to take your brand meaning and voice to heart. We can help to outline your ideal brand perceptions (and what you promise) within your guidelines so that your staff become ambassadors to your customers.

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Creative Direction

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Our designers can work on imagery guidelines, composition styles, production resources and best practices to provide unerring creative direction for your campaigns. Photography, illustration, video and other assets should all pull together in a coordinated way to ensure on-brand visual marketing.

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Communications Planning

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We can leverage our years of experience to give you guidance for branded communications across print, digital, events and more, empowering your staff to effectively plan initiatives. We can also partner with you to establish strategic frameworks for developing campaigns, ads, website content and collateral.

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Brand Strategy & Research

CoE tone of voice

Your team needs to be thoroughly on board with your brand guidelines. We can show you how to share the insights and learnings from core brand strategy documents that inspire your identity. This will assist your team to embrace your brand in context, making sure they’re best-equipped to uphold strategic goals.

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Application Across Touchpoints

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Offline and online touchpoints are equally as important, and your brand guidelines should be adhered to across signage, apparel, packaging, emails, social content and more. We can show you how to do this, and also how best to give concise instructions that empower proper execution.

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Employee & Recruitment Communication

Simon Said brand guidelines

Extending your branding so that it touches both internal and talent acquisition materials builds cohesion. In addition to helping you to brand across touchpoints, we can provide you with detailed blueprints for using branding in company presentations, event booths, office décor, welcome packs, job ads and more.

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Our Client Successes

Featured Case Studies

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Centre of Excellence (CoE) faced brand inconsistency due to rapid growth since their inception 12 years ago, impacting key elements like typography and tone of voice.

To address this, we produced a comprehensive set of brand guidelines, focusing on logo usage, fonts, colour palettes, and consistent messaging.
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Our leading design team are brimming with creative innovation and thrive on new and exciting projects. Get in touch to see how we can elevate your next project.

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    Optimise Brand PersonalityCast our creative eye over your current branding and assets, and understand how we can help you dominate your industry with flair.
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    Re-imagine and RevolutioniseWorking with your guidelines and vision, or creating them anew, we’ll incorporate our extensive experience to help evolve your brand to the next level.
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    Mapping Your StrategyCompile our key insights to realign your branding and creative strategies to fit perfectly into your overall vision and maximise your presence.

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