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Outside the world of Brand Extensions and Category Extensions is the much-heralded world of Brand Collaborations or Co-Branding. Brand Collaborations are mutually beneficial partnerships where companies, often with complementary resources, come together to diversify their audience and widen their appeal. Most of the recent brand collaborations have been all about bringing together fan base; as at their easiest interactions, engaging with partner brand’s consumers have enabled companies to double their target ...

An evolutionary identity in these present times would be Pfizer’s new brand identity. After 171 years, the brand’s evolution happens to be at a time where there’s an extraordinary focus on science and patient dedication. Arriving at a new era, Pfizer’s brand aspirations go beyond just being seen as a company that treats diseases; but more as one that prevents and cures diseases. A transformation of the brand legacy, one that ...

The US government’s wider overhaul of Federal Agency graphics saw the replacement of NASA’s meatball logo, one of the world’s most powerful symbolic logos, with the iconic NASA wordmark logo — a wordmark that originated over 45 years ago. A brave decision by NASA driven by the vision to change the brand’s positioning from being just a space exploration organisation to being a broader problem-solving organisation that brings tangible deliverables ...

We’re elated to share that we’ve been shortlisted for three awards at the prestigious Transform Awards MENA 2020. Transform honours and awards the most innovative, creative and successful branding solutions. We’ve won in the past (three awards at the 2018 Transform Awards MENA) and are happy to be recognised again — the second year we participated — particularly, as this year, as informed by the organisers, saw a 70% increase in ...

We are delighted to divulge that we’ve been shortlisted at the Transform Awards MENA 2018. The Transform Awards MENA is exclusively an awards programme honouring and recognising the most innovative, creative, and successful branding solutions in the Middle East and Africa. James was shortlisted for the following branding categories: 'Best Visual Identity from the Engineering and Manufacturing Sector' and 'Best Visual Identity from the Education Sector'. Our fingers are crossed and we look ...

According to Wikipedia, “sound branding (also known as audio branding, music branding, sonic branding, acoustic branding or sonic mnemonics) is the use of sound to reinforce brand identity. Sound branding is increasingly becoming a vehicle for conveying a memorable message to targeted consumers, taking advantage of the powerful memory sense of sound“.

Colours are a language of their own; in every day life and in visual communication, they are one of the first things we register when we are assessing anything. They evoke emotions and have psychological properties that instantly trigger various thoughts, memories and associations for people, environments and events.

Art, design and music have always been an a representation of how a culture expresses attitudes and emotions of the time: this expression is represented in forms of design. For example, the 70s recession brought earthy colors, environmental movement into the design. In the 80’s, we see an explosion of vibrant colours with the economic upturn and MTV’s influence on spreading pop music. In the 90’s, we see grunge and graffiti style. The 00’s, we see the influence of the technology revolution and minimalism, individualism and globalisation.