If Nike announced that they were opening a hotel, you’d have a pretty good guess about what it would be like. But if Hyatt announced that they were going to start making shoes, you would have NO IDEA WHATSOEVER what those shoes would be like. That’s because Nike owns a brand and Hyatt simply owns real estate.
A brand is not a logo. A brand is not a corporate identity system. It’s a person’s gut feeling about a product, service, or company. Because it depends on others for its existence, it must become a guarantee of trustworthy behavior. Good branding makes business integral to society and creates opportunity for everyone, from the chief executive to... See more
a pres by Smith & Diction, the branding agency that created the logo for Perplexity. “the first step of the process is to trust the process”
When clients say that they ‘need a website,’ they often also need a brand style guide and content to go with it, and when clients say that they ‘need a brand,’ we have to ask them where that brand is going to live. Digital and branding go hand in hand, and the web is often the first manifestation of the brand with a physical product or a store to... See more