1. Branding Process
Carty Design + Media: Award Winning, COMMUNICATIONS, Design + Media
We believe that great essence, character and purpose of customers, prospects, business
design is driven by great your company and your products. partners, regulators, analysts, the
media, employees and all other
ideas. The corporate branding process groups that determine the viabil-
affects all forms of communica- ity of your company to do busi-
tions, from advertising to public ness. All corporate communica-
Design and Branding relations to product packaging. It
is the intentional declaration of
Branding is often confused with who you are, what you believe and
"corporate identity" or "corporate
image." They actually have very
why your customers should put
their faith in your products.
Good design is
different meanings:
Your brand distinguishes you
good business.
Corporate identity refers to a from your competitors. And most — Thomas Watson Jr., IBM
company's name, logo, tagline — importantly, corporate branding is
its visual expression or its "look." the promise that your company
Corporate image is the public's keeps to your customers, pros-
perception of a company, whether pects, business partners, stock-
that perception is intended or not. holders and employees. Investing tions should work together to
Corporate branding, by contrast, in your brand is investing in your have a positive impact on famili-
is a business process — one that company's future. The logic be- arity and favorability.
is planned, strategically-focused hind the impact of branding is
and integrated throughout the simple: if consumers are more
organization. Branding estab- familiar with your brand, they are A Process for Success
lishes the direction, leadership, more likely to feel more favorable
clarity of purpose, inspiration and toward you and to purchase your This is a proven and disciplined
energy for a company's most im- product method for creating and imple-
portant asset, its corporate menting an identity.
brand. If it has been effectively To maximize its effectiveness,
managed, it should convey the your corporate brand must be un- Regardless of the client or the
derstood by all key audiences: project, the process remains the
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value; without an image there is
no perception. — Scott M. Davis