The art of visual artillery
Sometimes in marketing, you have to go in guns blazing.
In my experience, graphic designers can be a marketing company’s biggest weapon, with their ability to create collateral that packs a visual punch. Cohesive graphic design communicates key messages within seconds, solving problems through the carefully selected combination of type, space and image. It’s more than an art form; it’s a powerful tool.
If your market isn’t blown away within seconds of viewing your design, you’re doing it wrong.
In my experience, graphic designers can be a marketing company’s biggest weapon, with their ability to create collateral that packs a visual punch. Cohesive graphic design communicates key messages within seconds, solving problems through the carefully selected combination of type, space and image. It’s more than an art form; it’s a powerful tool.
If your market isn’t blown away within seconds of viewing your design, you’re doing it wrong.
Recently, we’ve hit the mark for our client Little Sale Birdy (www.littlesalebirdy.com). Little Sale Birdy is a retail sales website that desperately needed its own identity to differentiate itself from the sea online fashion stores. We knew from day one that to tell Little Sale Birdy’s unique story, we’d have to invest in high impact visual design. Since then, we have built an entire army of Little Sale Birdy collateral from t-shirts to business cards.
Through the design process, over the course of a year, we’ve built Little Sale Birdy’s brand presence up to the point that they are synonymous with the colour yellow. This branding feeds in to one of our guerrilla marketing campaigns where we hit the streets to profile stylish Sydneysiders (wearing yellow branded t-shirts, of course). You’ve been warned: if you see a person in yellow on your morning coffee run, you may very well be Little Sale Birdy Style Approved.
We have managed to achieve big feats with Little Sale Birdy, largely due to the fact that design was at the core of our plan of attack. Here are three important lessons to remember while you are creating your visual artillery:
1. It’s more than a logo. Although a logo is imperative to a brand, it is only one component. A brand is a collective set of memories. A logo can be a company’s most important asset, but is not effective existing alone. Enjoy the satisfaction of deciding on your logo, while being cognisant that this is only the beginning of the branding process.
2. Value consistency. The key to branding is eliminating confusion. Every piece of collateral that we have created for Little Sale Birdy is either black or yellow. Perhaps blue would have been more pleasant on a t-shirt, however that would decision would obscure our message. Little Sale Birdy is black and yellow. That is non-negotiable.
3. Defy the standard. The online consumer industry is a saturated market, and Little Sale Birdy had to fight hard to gain ground amongst well-established e-tailers. ASOS, The Iconic and Top Shop all have one thing in common – they’ve surrendered to black and white logos. We defied the status quo and cemented Little Sale Birdy’s identity in yellow. Play with design until you’ve established your own trademark.
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22 Jan 2015Keep on writing, great job!
ReplyVirginia
01 Sep 2014I agree with Mellissah when she writes, “it’s more than a logo”. That said, the importance of a good logo cannot be understated.
ReplyHuman use sight a their primary sense. We are relentlessly bombarded by sensory stimuli and therefore look for patterns in order to recognise and assign meaning to this stimuli. It is vital that marketers facilitate customer recognition through a symbolic, simple and consistent logo.
A logo is an image that consumers will be presented with over and over and it is the starting point for a strong visual front. A simple logo assists consumers to remember it and recall it. Symbols can help convey the meaning and function of a product or brand. In this instance, the Little Sale Birdy Logo presents a meaning of “sales”, “saving” and “online shopping”
Marketers have a great opportunity to take advantage of sight as a primary sense and the logo should not be overlooked.
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17 Aug 2014Write more, thats all I have to say. Literally, it seems as though you relied on the video to make your point.
ReplyYou obviously know what youre talking about, why
throw away your intelligence on just posting videos to your site when you could be giving us something enlightening to read?
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