Welcome to our brand blog.
This blog contains useful articles and insights relating to strategic branding, graphic design and web design. With guest blogs from our associates you can keep up to speed with the latest tips on everything from colour trends, to social media marketing and SEO.
Content and design – how do they work together on your website?
When it comes to creating or re-designing your business website, what should you invest in? Should you pay to have your website professionally designed and branded? Should you hire a copywriter to write all your copy? What should you do first? Ideally, you should do...
How do you choose a brand name?
Do you have a new business or product? Are you lost as where to start on the naming process? What's the best way to get the creative juices flowing and choose a brand name? To choose your brand name, you'll need a pen, some paper and post-it notes. And perhaps another...
Four secrets to double your income and grow your business
GROW YOUR BUSINESS GUEST BLOG FROM MARGARET GUILLEN AT MGCOACH.CO.UK If you are regular reader of my blog, you'll know I love to have guest bloggers who can provide expertise in other areas of your business, not just brand and design. The key to a solid brand is...
The Best Ways of Speeding Up Your Mobile Website
MOBILE WEBSITE SPEED: OPTIMISATION TIPS No one likes slow Internet connectivity. If we mobile users had our way, we would much prefer browsing the web at optimum speeds at all times. So we get Internet service providers that offer speedy Internet service packages and...
Responsive Logo Design: What does this mean and is your logo responsive?
What's responsive logo design? Responsive logo design is the buzz trend in corporate identity for 2018/2019. Logos must now work across a variety of media and marketing channels. Both online and offline. A one-size-fits-all logo just doesn't cut it anymore. With...
Choosing the best website colours for an effective brand
BEST WEBSITE COLOURS This week, I was approached by American design firm, My Biz Niche, asking if their infographic was suitable for my blog. I was immediately impressed with the infographic. It details some great statistics and information on the best website colours...
What is branding? Creating a strong brand.
What is branding and how can you create a successful brand for your business? So, what is branding? Branding is the process of connecting good strategy with good creativity. Branding consists of not just a logo, but the entire outward perception of your...
Graphic Design Tips 2: colour messaging, fonts, text and grammar
THE AZ.DESIGN FUNDAMENTALS. part 2 Now with online tools such as Canva, PicMonkey and Piktochart, it’s very simple to create your own stunning graphics for your digital marketing. Without doing myself out of work, I would like to share with you some key design tips to...
The power of an infographic
Why should you use infographics to deliver your key messages? What is an infographic? Infographics are images that relay information in a visual format. Usually while using an illustrative style with cartoon-like characters combined with charts and diagrams. This...
What’s the best colour for your brand? – Black logo
If you’re using a Black logo for your brand, you need to understand the traits, qualities and mood that it evokes, along with it's psychological meaning. Psychologically Black means authority, power and control. In many situations it can be intimidating, unfriendly...
What’s the best colour for your brand? – Multi-coloured logo
Is a multi-coloured logo right for your brand and will it attract your target customer? Some of the world's largest brands are colourful. Microsoft, Google, Ebay – what do they all have in common? They are internet or IT brands. Colourful logos are a relatively new...
Colour by gender
COLOUR BY GENDER As part of my colour-themed posts, I got to thinking about whether there's a big difference in colour preferences between the sexes. Over the past week or so, I have been researching a little about colour and gender to see if I could find any studies....