How to Style Your Brand: Everything You Need to Know to Create a Distinctive Brand Identity - Softcover

Fiona Humberstone

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0956454534 ISBN 13: 9780956454539

Publisher: Copper Beech Press, 2015

Synopsis

Everything you need to know to create a distinctive brand identity.

The right brand identity has the power to attract, engage and compel people to do business with you. But for many entrepreneurs, creating an effective brand can be a challenge.

Whether you're a start-up on a lemonade budget, or a seasoned entrepreneur planning on working with a professional, an understanding of the process is essential.

In this comprehensive workbook, branding expert Fiona Humberstone will walk you through the process of styling your brand. From finding your focus, creating an inspirational vision and unlocking the power of colour psychology; Fiona will help you understand the design details that will make your business irresistible. How to Style Your Brand will ensure you get your branding right, first time.

In How to Style Your Brand, Fiona shares with you the secrets behind using colour to create an emotive connection; how to use pattern and illustrations to add character and personality and how to carefully select typefaces that add a distinctive and intentional edge to your designs. We'll examine how to pull all of these elements together to create a remarkable and cohesive design that you can be proud of. I'll encourage you to think big about your business so that you develop the focus and vision to brief a designer with confidence, or feel able to create your own identity. Once you understand the principles behind styling a brand, there is no reason why you can t create something extraordinary for your business.

Drawing on her experience from developing hundreds of brand identities for companies worldwide, Fiona's tried and tested framework will give you the clarity, confidence and creative know-how to create a brand identity that wins you work.

Packed with more than 60 inspirational examples of some of the best brand identities for small businesses worldwide, How to Style Your Brand is more than a business book. It's a design book for business owners. A beautifully designed coffee table book that you'll refer to again and again.

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Review:

I love the relaxed, easy, fun style of your book. It s clear, well structured and very thorough without being too technical or patronising. It kept me engaged and has inspired me to create a new website that better reflects and communicates what my design style, service and brand is all about... It feels as though you wrote this book specifically for me, and I m sure many others will feel the same. --Daisy Riordan

About the Author:

Fiona Humberstone has been styling brands, creating websites and running workshops since 2000. An exacting Creative Director and commercially-minded entrepreneur, Fiona brings clarity and possibility to every project she works on.

Having founded, grown and sold one of the UK s most successful brand styling companies, Fiona now works as a freelance Creative Director for branding projects and consults for design agencies who want to sell more creative work.

Fiona partners with leading industry experts to run game-changing courses both online and around the world and is available for speaking engagements. Find out more at fionahumberstone.com and thebrand-stylist.com.

Fiona is also the author of Exhibit: How to Use Exhibitions to Grow Your Small Business.

About this edition

• Publisher: Copper Beech Press
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0956454534
• ISBN 13: 9780956454539
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 208
• Editor: Joanna Copestick