Corporate Identity Packages & the Logo Design Process
Our corporate identity packages follow a set of well-trodden steps. While there is no wrong way to approach logo design, experience has taught us that there really are quantifiable steps that repeatedly produce good results. Any of these steps can be repeated, and no next step is taken until the current one is completed satisfactorily, ensuring a professional end product by means of mastery of each step along the way:- Scope Definition We work out in writing what the expected course of action and deliverables will be including budget and timeline.
- Research The first step in the creative process is gathering information on similar companies in your industry. We also analyze any logos that you like, or envision you new logo having a similar look and feel to. We ask you a set of questions about your marketing goals and how your company needs to be perceived to attain these goals.
- Thumbnail Pencil Sketches & Brainstorming At this step, we generate as many thumbnails sketches as we feel is necessary to cover the bases and give you many options based on our research and your answers to our questions. We get your feedback for each concept and repeat the process as many times as possible while keeping on track with the project budget and timeline.
- Narrowing the Range After the necessary rounds of sketches are complete, we work with you to narrow down the sketches to a few choices that we will being formal digital design on.
- Preliminary Digital Sketches We present the initial translations of the narrowed range of sketches into Illustrator, along with any variations the translations process avails. This is a bit like an archaeology hunt – you never know what you are going to find, or which path leads to great and unexpected discoveries.
- Refinement We work to refine one, at most two concepts, by producing another set of variations on our now tightly-focused vision for your new logo.
- Final Selection A final variation is chosen from the refinement process to receive one last round of focused and detailed refinements. This logo is then completed and made ready for print and other media.
- Corporate Identity Package Collateral items If business cards and letterhead were ordered as part of the corporate identity package, a similar but much shorter process that includes most of the previous steps now takes place.
- Delivery The final logo is delivered in Illustrator (AI), Adobe PDF (PDF) formats, along with any bitmap requests you may have, like TIFF, JPG or PNG. Corporate Identity Package collateral items are delivered in (AI), Adobe PDF (PDF) and sometimes InDesign (INDD) file formats depending on the nature of the collateral.
Good luck with your own design business, Douglas, and thanks for taking the time to visit my own website. All the best.
Thanks David! I don’t know how I can top having you as my first commenter! I guess that means I have to work even harder now! I’m not even done building the site yet 🙂 Your site, and success, are very inspiring. Good luck on your book, btw. I’m sure you’ll let us know as soon as it’s available!