Marilyn Tjitra, co-founder and creative director at Singaporean branding and creative agency Kiilat Creative, discusses how personal care brand design is a balance of functional and sensory appeal for diverse markets....
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Beautiful consistency
Vincent Roffers, partner and head of strategy at Agenda, explains how sometimes the best brand design can be found in simplicity and consistency, and offers advice on how to best achieve that....
Tomorrow’s winning brand strategies will let empathy lead
As business races forward, how can brand keep pace – to keep creating value? Howard Breindel, co-CEO of DeSantis Breindel, argues empathy will empower tomorrow’s leading brands to sustain human connection through rapi...
From the sonic branding studio: lessons learned on creating a sonic identity
Sixième Son’s US managing director, Colleen Fahey, and chief client officer, US, Daina Todorovic, discuss their agency’s project with Merrell and how sonic identities can create stronger connections between audie...
Brands in China are still poised for growth… but there's a catch
Siu Tang from Shanghai-based award-winning creative agency The Orangeblowfish shares his views on what it takes to grow in the mind of the post-pandemic consumer. Pan...
Angus’ A-Z of logos: CN
In his latest monthly Transform column on the A-Z of logo design, Pentagram partner and creative director Angus Hyland focuses on CN (Canadian National Railway) If yo...
How the rapidly changing consumer market is changing the nature of branding
Yong Ng is the creative director at Singaporean agency Somewhere Else. He discusses here the tension between consumerism and the environment, and how brands in the modern day must offer consumers more....
A rebrand has great power. Will Musk make the most of it?
Claire Huxley, strategy director at Design Bridge and Partners, analyses the revolutionary nature of Twitter’s shift to X. Another week, another Elon Musk headline th...
What if X marks the spot?
Jonathan Ford, founder and group creative director of global brand design agency Pearlfisher, explains why Twitter’s controversial rebrand to X might be the right move amid ‘media hysteria’....
Now that Twitter’s gone, do you really want to hang out with an X?
Mark Diamond, ‘hopeful saboteur’ at London-based brand agency Saboteur, discusses the power of brand Twitter, and whether it is really worth forgoing. The Twitter bra...
