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Selecting A Font For Your Brand
Read more: Selecting A Font For Your BrandFrom the beginning of a branding project to the development and growth of a brand’s voice, font choice and typography plays an important role in the overall image and tone of your business. Selecting the perfect font and maintaining a strong typographic combination is essential. Fonts can be daunting if you don’t know where to…
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Brands that became everyday words
Read more: Brands that became everyday wordsAround the globe, brands are part of everyday life. However, some brands have become so synonymous with their particular product or service that we now use their names without thinking. Have you ever done a spot of hoovering? Googled some information? Or listened to a song that has been autotuned? All of these words and…
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New branding and website for Community Land Trust
Read more: New branding and website for Community Land TrustLeiston Community Land Trust, or Leiston CLT, is a not for profit organisation started by a small group of Leiston residents. They identified a real need to regenerate the town centre whilst at the same time building on the rich heritage of a unique, former industrial engineering Suffolk town. The CLT approached Mackman to craft…
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New social media platforms offer opportunities for disruption
Read more: New social media platforms offer opportunities for disruptionWe are already over halfway through 2020, a year that has thrown up some unique challenges and created a series of rapid fluctuations within society. Some of these changes have been longer-lasting than others – online grocery delivery slots and toilet paper became valuable commodities in the short term, while we are still seeing consumers…
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Marketing and Branding – What is the Difference?
Read more: Marketing and Branding – What is the Difference?The relationship between marketing and branding is not as complex as some may think. In fact, the two work hand in hand, and one without the other can leave you without a clear strategy. Understanding how marketing and branding differ can better position you to: Firstly, what is marketing? The Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM)…
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The Challenge of Branding a Startup…
Read more: The Challenge of Branding a Startup…You may think that branding a new startup business or creating an identity for a new product would be easy compared to the process for an existing business. The thought of having a clean slate is so inviting to a designer. However, having an innovative idea is not enough to become an established business. The…
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Is a Logo Still Important? The Importance of Brand Identity
Read more: Is a Logo Still Important? The Importance of Brand IdentityThink of a brand, any brand. who did you choose? Whichever brand it was, we can guarantee that their logo popped into your head. So a logo is the most important part of a brand? Well, not quite… As designer Milton Glaser puts it, “Logo is the gateway to the brand.” The logo is how…
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Four successful Norfolk heritage brands
Read more: Four successful Norfolk heritage brandsThe second part of our heritage brands series focuses on Norfolk businesses that have tapped into their successful history to establish customer loyalty and to generate sales. These firms have often remained in the same family. They have had to adapt over time, while retaining the key values that have sustained them over many generations.…
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What Does Brand Culture Mean For Your Business?
Read more: What Does Brand Culture Mean For Your Business?Well-crafted, meaningful brand values are all very well, but if they are simply words painted on a wall, how much are they really worth? To add meaning to your company, values need to be embedded in everything you do. Brand culture is the approach that will evolve your brand values from rhetoric to reality. Brand…
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How to Stay Ahead as an SME
Read more: How to Stay Ahead as an SMEMarketers in small and medium sized businesses are under daily pressure to keep pace with change and stay ahead of the competition. Strategy isn’t just for big businesses and the big corporate brands – it’s vital for SMEs too. And there are plenty of things that the big players can learn from their smaller counterparts.…
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