
Master client branding presentations by crafting unique, tailored decks that showcase strategic thinking and the client journey, not just visuals, and learn transferable techniques to sell your ideas.
Demonstrate your design thinking, not just pretty pictures, by guiding clients through your reasoning and micro-decisions, involving them in the journey to solve their business problems and gain buy-in.
Prepare by understanding the presentation environment, control the setting, and identify key decision-makers to tailor formats and anticipate questions for a confident delivery.
Start with a story to balance objective data and design subjectivity, using the hero's journey to guide clients through your design decisions.
Present the thinking behind design decisions to guide clients toward the optimal solution, using objectives, research, and storytelling to secure agreement and micro commitments.
Reframe your presentation as communicating a message, set expectations, outline objectives and challenges, invite framed feedback, and map next steps to ensure clarity and certainty.
This example presents a brand identity for a women's organization, translating insights from a brand discovery workshop into a tailored, community-focused brand system, including logo, colors, patterns, and application examples.
Structure client presentations with a clear agenda and past–present–future goals. Address competitive landscape, customer personas, brand values, personality, and positioning with mood boards to secure buy-in through micro commitments.
Apply storytelling and structured presentation techniques to clearly communicate design decisions and the merits of your branding work. Build a compelling class project deck showcasing your deliverables.
When I started working as a designer I assumed that my logo and branding client presentations should be filled with pretty pictures. That's what I was getting paid for, right?
Can you relate?
What I've ultimately learned through trial and error over the last 20+ years is that about 90% of the presentation should in fact be demonstrating how you arrived at those design decisions.
The presentation needs to sell your thinking first, before clients will 'buy' the visual idea/s you're presenting.
The 'beef' of the presentation needs to be about telling a compelling story, that's tied to specific agreed-upon objectives. And the deliverable (whether that's a simple logo, a full brand identity, or any type of design) should be the cherry on top.
While every client presentation should be unique, there are a few fundamental principles and components you should think about when presenting any type of branding work, and I will show you why using a structure like this is important.
The skills you will learn in this class are transferable – meaning that you will be able to apply this type of thinking for any presentation in the future, enabling you to present confidently and successfully.
If presenting your work has been challenging for you in the past, this class will give you the confidence and tools that you need.
Are you ready – enrol now.