Within the first few seconds of seeing a logo or brand, people begin to form an opinion about a company. This is reason enough to have a well-designed logo as it can be the main visual element of any company’s over-all brand identity. As current and potential markets grow to recognize, like and trust a specific logo/brand, consumers become inclined to react more favorably to future encounters with the company, which could,consequently lead to possible sales or an improved state of mind. To the general public, a logo is a company’s face. It’s one of the first identifying items people see on any of its product or service offerings, its website or any ad material, and it will give them an idea of what and who the company is. This design therefore should be unique and memorable as it plays a critical role in creating a positive impression on people. Why a Logo Is Important To […]
How Branding Transforms your Business
In a way it’s true what most brand managers will tell you. People don’t actually buy products. They buy brands. They buy brands because they have a deep-seated connection to it or because it represents something positive to them. If you presented two identical items, (same specifications, same quality, same price tag, same everything) … to an average shopper … and you placed any brand on one of the 2 items and left one unbranded, ., 9 times out of 10, the shopper will pick the branded item. Branding makes all the difference. That is why branding is critical to a company or its products. Branding is not so much about the product’s physical or material make-up. It’s about what a brand means to a consumer. Products will come and go. Brands will live on. We take pride in describing Calgary branding as a passionate drive to make consumers not […]
Birth of a Logo
Ever wonder how a logo grows from a sketch to a tangible and real object? It all starts with an idea — a concept, something small that eventually is turned into the headpiece for an entire brand. While we can’t cover all angles of development in a simple blog post, suffice it say that creating a truly effective, memorable and simple logo is not the easiest and cleanest process. In the example here, our team went through over 20 concepts with over 150 revisions to nail down the final end product for premium crystal manufacturer and designer; Cristaux International. Through an almost painful process of extracting the unnecessary and integrating a company mission statement into a design, we finally arrived at a fully fledged corporate icon that will stand for the Cristaux brand into the next decade. It starts with a sketch and grows into more. The idea here was […]