3 Ways to Easily Keep Your Designs on Brand ✔️
3 ways to make your marketing materials and content look better instantly! Our work flows series returns 🌊
You’ve put hours and sweat (and maybe some tears) into your brand—don’t let the visuals fail all that hard work. 🧐 Here are 3 things to do that can help your graphics ALWAYS be on brand and ready to go, straight from a graphic designer:
📕 Style Guide
We talk a lot about style guides and that’s for good reason. Every brand should have one and follow it as closely as they possibly can. This helps with brand consistency, which eventually can lead to brand recognition. Check out more on what should be in your style guide!
🧰 Use Tools You Can …Use
If you don’t know how to use illustrator and don’t want to learn, that’s okay! But don’t make your entire graphic library based around illustrator. Work within a program you know you can use, and you feel confident in. This will help you feel better when you have to make a quick graphic, and keep graphics looking unified since they’re not being created in lots of different places. Plus that way, the graphics look exactly how you want them to! Learn more about using your tools efficiently.
🗂️ Stay Organized
Have strategies in place that ensure you know exactly where and what each brand detail is for AND where it is. That means a clear file system, or labeling system, that can help you save time when you’re looking for brand assets. If you’re on top of everything, you’ll be able to respond to trends and stay on top of your community’s wants more easily. Learn more about how to stay on top of trending topics and react quickly.
Overall if you apply these tactics to your brand, you’ll definitely be able to stay calm cool and collected next time you need a graphic quick! 😎
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Marketing Materials: 3 Ways to Create Consistent Graphics 🙌
Creating consistent graphics can be hard when you’re in a hurry! 😅 You have a million and two things to do, and creating a graphic just got added to that list. You know you have visual standards—but how are you supposed to add a perfectly on brand design to your list of to-dos?!
Creating A Cohesive Brand 📕
Keeping a brand book can keep your brand from going off its visual rails—but what goes in a brand book? Coming from the perspective of a graphic designer, here are 3 things you should have in your brand book from day 1:
Content! Get your content here! 🗞️
Let’s face it–constantly coming up with content for your brand can be challenging. That’s why we put together 13 prompts that you can bookmark and come back to whenever you need some inspiration! 👇