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Target Audience ≠ Target Identity
Your market doesn’t need to be targeted, and your brand doesn’t need to mimic what’s already out there.
Human-Centered Design: How Perception Shapes Positioning
In branding, chaos is just unorganized information.
You Can’t Keep Surprising People
One of the strangest things about being a creative is that everyone assumes you’re doing it on purpose.
Do Your Thing
If your branding doesn’t help people understand you faster or choose you with more confidence, then what’s it doing?
The Right People
We use the latest cross-disciplinary studies in aesthetic cognition to help you make something you like, and then make sure the right people find themselves in it.
Take Another Stab at It: Predictable Brands Win
We build brands with the kind of predictable structure that gives you freedom everywhere else.
Apples And Oranges
One common challenge business owners face is comparing themselves to the wrong competitors.
The Reverb Effect: What Comes Back to Your Brand
The Reverb Effect explains how the things your brand consistently shows shape perception over time, and how they come back as reputation and recognition.