Studio services — 01

Branding

The foundation everything else is built on. Get this right and every piece that follows looks like it belongs to you.

A brand is not a logo. It is the whole impression someone forms in the first few seconds — the mark, the colour, the type, the tone, and how consistently all of it holds together across every place a person meets you.

I build brands for businesses that have outgrown whatever they started with. Usually that means a mark drawn by somebody’s nephew in 2009, three different blues in circulation, and a brochure that looks unrelated to the website. The work is to make all of it one thing.

What it includes

The deliverables

Logo and marks

A primary mark plus the variants you actually need — stacked, horizontal, single-colour, favicon, and the small sizes most logos fall apart at.

Colour and type

A palette and typeface system with real rules: what leads, what supports, and what never gets used together.

Brand guidelines

A working document your printer, your web developer, and your next hire can all follow without calling me.

Voice and naming

How the brand sounds in a headline, a caption, and an apology. Naming work where a product or division needs one.

Rollout

Applying the system to the pieces that matter first — signage, stationery, vehicle, site — so the change is visible rather than theoretical.

How it works

The process

  1. Listen

    What the business actually does, who buys, and where the current brand is costing you credibility.

  2. Direction

    Two or three distinct routes, presented in context — on a truck, on a booth, on a phone — not as logos floating on white.

  3. Build

    Refine the chosen route into a full system, including the edge cases nobody thinks about until launch week.

  4. Hand over

    Files in every format you will need, plus guidelines, plus a walkthrough so your team knows how to use them.

Start a project

Tell me what you are building. A few quick questions and I will know if I am the right fit.

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