Brand strategy
Positioning, audience and the argument the brand makes - where it is genuinely needed, not as a default phase.
Identity work that survives contact with reality - because the same studio that designs the logo also prints the carton, the dealer board and the shop front it has to live on.
Brand books are usually presented on screen, where every colour is luminous and every gradient is smooth. The identity then has to exist as a screen-printed dealer board in a village, a flexo-printed label on a jerrycan, an embroidered logo on a cap, and a two-colour form printed on cheap paper.
Identities designed without that in mind quietly fail: the gradient bands, the thin strokes disappear at small size, the brand blue is unreachable in a two-colour job, and within a year every location is using a slightly different version.
Because we print as well as design, those constraints are in the room from day one. We know what our own press can hold, what a vendor's screen-printing will do to a fine line, and which colour will drift on uncoated stock.
Strategy first where it is needed: what the brand stands for, who it is for, what it argues against. Not every project needs a long strategy phase, and we will say so rather than sell one.
Then the identity itself - name treatment, logo, colour, type, the supporting elements, and the rules that hold it together. Then the applications, which is where most of the value actually lands: stationery, packaging, labels, catalogues, signage, vehicle branding, uniforms, dealer material, exhibition presence.
And finally the guidelines - short enough that people read them, specific enough to settle arguments, and written with the printed reality in mind rather than the screen.
Not every brand problem is solved by a new logo, and a rebrand that changes the mark while leaving the packaging, the dealer material and the shop fronts untouched usually makes things worse - the market now sees two brands.
Sometimes the right answer is a refresh: keep the equity, fix the reproduction problems, tighten the system, and re-do the applications properly. Sometimes it is simply better artwork, consistently applied. We would rather tell you that than sell a full rebrand.
When a rebrand is right, the rollout is planned as a schedule of physical things - which sites, which packs, which dealer material, in what order and by when - because that is the part that decides whether it lands.
Positioning, audience and the argument the brand makes - where it is genuinely needed, not as a default phase.
Logo, colour, type and supporting elements, designed against how they will actually be reproduced.
Short, specific and written for the people who will apply it, including the print realities.
The identity carried across a pack range so the family reads as one on a shelf.
Shop fronts, factory gates, reception and site branding, produced and installed.
Dealer boards, counter material and collateral kitted per outlet and dispatched.
The current mark, its worst reproductions, the competitors, and where the inconsistency is actually coming from.
Rebrand, refresh, or better application. Whichever of the three the evidence supports.
Concepts proofed on the stocks and processes the identity will really meet.
Applications produced and deployed in a planned order, so the market never sees two brands at once.
No. Design and branding are standalone work with no minimum. It simply helps that the people designing it know what the press will do to it.
Typically four to eight weeks for strategy, identity and core applications, depending on how many applications are in scope and how fast approvals move.
Yes. Working files and guidelines are handed over at the end of the project.
Often that is the better answer - keeping the equity while fixing what does not reproduce. We will say which we think it is.
Yes - dealer boards, counter material and collateral produced, kitted per outlet and dispatched.
Yes. There is no minimum on branding and design work.
Bulk quotes come back within 24 working hours, priced for your run and the next slab up. Campaign briefs get a call first.