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bookmark_borderBranding: Identity Design w/ Yo Santosa

Chris Do sits downs with Founder and Creative Director, Yo Santosa for her perspective and insights into building brands with personality. It's a special late night edition of Unfiltered taped live in front of a studio audience.

This is a must watch episode if you are a graphic designer and want to understand the secrets behind building powerful brands.

Watch Yo's talk at AIGA Hecho en LA talk here:

5:22 What is branding and what isn't?
8:15 How to go from being just a designer to becoming a Brander? Become a Matchmaker.
10:00 How do you learn about who your customers are and turn that into messaging, colors fonts look and feel? Start with Words.
13:09 What is a Beautiful Word?
15:32 How to get a client to rebrand?
18:50 Why pay somebody if you're not going to listen to them? Credibility.
22:44 Whats the secret? How do you give brands personality? Start with a Name.
28:08 Work for a big company or have your own design studio? Freedom of the Struggle.
31:00 How did you come up with Ferroconcrete as the name of your design studio?
33:38 Is it hard being a leader?
35:06 Did you pursue any further education after design? What do you know about business, management, marketing?
36:58 Do you have any tips or advice for leading a meeting with a client?
40:54 Could you extend your principles on branding a business, to branding yourself?
43:06 Do you approach running your business like a designer or a CEO?

Ferro Concrete Design:
http://ferroconcrete.com

Want to learn more about #Branding? Read #TheBrandGap by Marty Neumeier. Here's the digital version:
http://ptgmedia.pearsoncmg.com/images/0321348109/goodies/The_Brand_Gap.pdf

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Credits:
Executive Producer– Chris Do
Hosts– Chris Do & Jose Caballer
Director– Andrew Truong
Cameraman– Aaron Szekely
Producer– Aaron Szekely
Editor– Aaron Szekely
Musical Director– Adam Sanborne

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bookmark_borderHow To Design Brand Identity Stylescapes

Top 3 things to know when designing a stylescape.
What is a style scape and how can you apply it your web or identity design?
What's the difference between a mood board and a stylescape anyways?

We discuss how to effectively design stylescapes for your next project and reduce the time exploring designs and dealing with client revisions.

Want to learn more about Stylescapes™? Take our in-depth course:
https://thefutur.com/stylescapes

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02:25 What is a Stylescape?
03:02 Involve your clients into the step by step design process
07:15 Case Study: Chicken Bistro
09:54 Step 1: Curate content based on three main brand attributes
14:05 When curating brand elements, choose similar brand attribute words that are visual.
15:17 How far should you vary your Stylescapes?
20:20 Step 2: Tell a design story – Stylescape framework template
22:56 Step 3: Make it artful and dynamic
24:50 Filling in the Stylescape (colors, typography, imagery)
33:00 Q: What's your process for hiring a designer to make a Stylescape?

Links Discussed in This Episode:
Adobe Kuler: https://color.adobe.com/create/color-…
Pinterest: http://www.pinterest.com/josecaballer…
Behance: https://www.behance.net/
Typography Served: http://www.typographyserved.com/
Best Web Designs: http://www.thebestdesigns.com/
Shutter Stock: http://www.shutterstock.com/?gclid=CL…
Fontspring.com: http://www.fontspring.com/

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bookmark_borderIDENTITY DESIGN: BRANDING

What's the difference between identity design and branding? Is a logo a brand? What is a brand?

3 things you might not know about identity design and branding from Executive Creative Director Chris Do.

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01:36 Identity versus branding
04:28 Branding is only what others say/feel that you are
07:45 Think more, make less
09:43 How to define the brand
12:30 Putting together logo examples
13:59 Let's Design & Sketch
19:20 Common mistake: depending only on the computer
20:38 Find designers with a deep knowledge of a subject rather than do it yourself.
22:26 Working through logo examples, and hand off the example to your choice designer
26:45 Summary

Media Drop

The Brand Gap – Marty Neumeier
Story: Substance, Structure, Style, And The Principles Of Screenwriting – Robert McKee

Special Thanks to our Sponsors:

Shutterstock – http://www.shutterstock.com
Media Temple – http://mediatemple.net
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Links Discussed in This Episode:

CORE Really Explained: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4BEt_o9bCk

CORE Brand Attributes Webinar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5l4i3PZucHI

CORE Defining the Brand: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e916gMCWVKI

CORE session Alignment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOeIG_WDesw

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