15/04/2023
Branding is often miss understood for being about beautiful design, logo’s, content and sharing a story with your client.
This is like the celebrity who play a role in a movie - sure they get all the attention, but behind the acting is thousands of staff and sometimes decades of work. Script writing, set producers, sound, effects, stunts, props, directors, caterers, agents, coordinators and the list goes on.
My point is this, brand identity is not a matter of what’s liked or disliked, but the fact of whether a brand “works” or “does not work”.
The tricky part of being a strategist is trying to please a clients desires, understand their objectives, live in the head of their consumer they desperately want the attention from and instruct a creative team to connect these ambiguous dots into an engine that’s going to drive that brand to it’s destination (without catching on fire, or ending up in a ditch)
This overwhelming dance demands one thing above all else, above the clients taste, their ambitions, the target consumer. It requires the testament of “will it actually work”.
These engine pieces need to link perfectly, communicate effectively, express our purpose, develop trust and build momentum.
Branding has a job to do, nailing that should be above all else.