
What is Branding? It's essentially everything people can recognize and remember you by. Let me explain to you what branding really, and why you need to create your own branding profile.
Designing your own branding profile is not an easy task. And Since it is critical that your brand looks, and feels, professional to your audience, I would advice you to outsource some of the graphical design work, like the logotype for example. Perhaps you have a friend who is good at design. However, if you do have design skills and think you can create most parts of your branding yourself, I'm now going to share my top tips and tools for designing your brand.
Now, before you start designing all the visual elements of your brand, and then continue to design images and graphics for your products, marketing etc, you need to get good design tools first. And I want to share my top list of design tools with you in this video, and you can of course pick and choose whichever tools you like, and that suits your personal workflow.
The main purpose of your brand, is to be a unique avatar for people to remember, so that they recognize your brand and your products, every time they see, hear, or read, any content you made with your brand. Now, take note on this…“Before you Design your Brand, you need to Define your Brand”…And in this video, I’m going to teach you the action steps I recommend, to define your own brand.
So you have your Brand Definition ready, right? The Brand tags that you will use as a foundation for your complete Branding Profile, and all design work and communication you will do in the future. Well, now let’s talk about your brand name.
The first visual part of your brand you should design, is your color theme. Why? Because it will set the tone and foundation for basically every visual element you create.
The logotype of your brand is the single most important visual element you need to create. Because it will represent your brand everywhere.
Branding is not only your visual appearance. Many companies also have complete sound design profiles, and the most important element of a sound that you can incorporate in your branding, is your audio logo.
Now it’s time to communicate what you do, who you do it for, and why…in one single sentence. Your brand slogan.
It’s time to create one profile picture to rule them all. It’s time to create your avatar.
This lecture is about the visual aspect of text. And by this I mean fonts. There are thousands of fonts you can use, and each one looks and feels a certain way.
Now it’s time for my favorite type of branding. It’s also the one that will have the biggest impact on your audience if you truly go all in. Personal Branding.
Start Creating your own Professional Brand
Imagine having your own brand, that will benefit you incredibly much on your creative journey as an artist.
Having a professionally designed and consistent brand can help you build connections as a professional, grow your business, get you more freelancing jobs, and open all kinds of doors to amazing opportunities. Sounds pretty good, right?
Examples of things You will Learn
Learn from a Practical Perspective
Now is your chance to learn all essential steps to develop both your professional brand, as well as your personal brand, as a creative and artist. I am going to teach you step-by-step, using my own brand as an example. I will give you a practical view on every single brand element that I use personally, and that I recommend you to incorporate when you design your own brand.
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Invest in yourself today, thank yourself tomorrow. =)
Friendly regards,
Mikael "Mike" Baggström
Music Composer | Sound Designer