Category Archives: CORPORATE

HSAT

Brand Creation: Brand Definition / Brand Positioning / Brand Tone & Language / Brand Identity / Restaurant Design / Packaging Design + Formalisation Into Brand Style Guides.

Overview.
HSAT is a world leading player in the field of crop production forecasting. It employs advanced data gathering to map, understand and predict crop yields and patterns on a global real-time basis.

The intelligence that it provides allow its clients to make informed decisions that impact both the way that the world feeds itself and commercial markets.

The business trades as HSAT as the parent company with sub-brands: Crop Manager, CropGPT and Crop GPT+ – its AI solution based on weather and satellite data.

The Challenge.
The business had developed a number of offers over a period of time and had arrived at a point where it had a number of disparate assets but not a coherent way to present them. It was struggling to cut through to its target audiences’s decision makers. It needed to articulate a clear proposition for its products and clarity of purpose that its
stakeholders could easily understand.

The Solution.
We defined a clear brand architecture and naming convention, establishing a system for how they fit together under the parent brand offer. We then created a new brand identity and defined its tone-of-voice prior to developing style sheets for implementation across both on and offline
colllateral.

The Results.
The new brand proposition is easier to activate and communicate for staff, more coherent for customer decision makers, suppliers & media, and enjoys far greater overall impact within its marketplace.

It has instant brand recall within the sector and is usually one of the top 3 of go-to companies for crop forecasting upon customer recall.

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Adgen

Brand Creation: Brand Definition / Brand Positioning / Brand Tone & Language / Brand Identity / Restaurant Design / Packaging Design + Formalisation Into Brand Style Guides.

Branding for high growth targeting businesses.

We’re a small team of ex international branding consultancy people. We work to the same standards as an international branding consultancy because we’re the same people. But because our overheads are lower it means that we’re able to pass that on. Which is good news for startups in particular who tend to have a wealth of vision and ideas when they’re just starting out but a limited budget.

We always say that we make our clients look like they’ve spent £100k when in fact they’ve only spent a fraction of that.

If you’re in the process of thinking about your brand and you’d like to know more please get in touch.

paul@zutalors.design

A Brand is more than a logo.

I’m often asked what a business needs to do to be successful. To connect with its target audience. To cut through, in other words.

Well, a business must package itself in a way that creates a groundswell of interest and a momentum that makes it impossible to ignore. It needs to articulate a compelling proposition and a lighthouse identity – clearly standing for something and articulating it in a way that really grasps the imagination.

The business thus requires a vehicle that encapsulates the potential of its possibilities and sets the scene – and thus the tone – for it to go out and do business. Something that does the pre-work before the website, or the location is visited. A vehicle that will really stand it apart. It needs to paint a picture in stakeholder’s minds of just what it is that it stands for – and then also engender a trust in what it will actually deliver.

That is about more than creating a logo. It is about building a Brand.

Strong brands have fans rather than customers. People become aware of them and what they stand for without ever looking for them – they take on a momentum all of their own. One person becomes a believer and then tells others. These people become brand evangelists. This is fundamentally what we need to achieve.

Yes, we need to create a stunning logo, but that is just the tip of the iceberg. We must build a powerful identity system around it and then wrap it in a compelling brand story. And most importantly of all we need to build it on the solid foundations of a clear, stated reason for being and a set of values that underpin everything that the brand does.

The more complex the issue, the simpler the solution. You should be able to write the essence of each brand on the palm of your hand. If you can’t it means that you haven’t ‘got it’. And if you haven’t got it no-one else is likely to either – whether that’s customers, media, influencers, investors or employees etc.

Therefore a key measure of success for us in our roles as brand creators is getting the Brand’s essence distilled onto one A4 sheet of paper – a concise, compelling template for the brand – one that will articulate its (four) key constituent elements. This will mean that the business will move forward intrinsically understanding what is right for the brand and what isn’t.

If you’d like to know more get in touch.

Paul Thwaites
Founder, ZUT Brand+Identity

paul@zutalors.design

The dreaded B word and where to start…

So, you’re a budding brand start-up.

You’ve got a big idea and a potentially great product – you know it will fly if you could just get people as enthused about it as you are. Therefore, based on the adage that a strong brand is built on an engaging proposition backed up by a great experience, you’ve got exactly half of what you need for success. What you don’t have is the stunning brand proposition.

You know that you need to tackle the dreaded B word but where to start? Money’s tight and one thing you know for sure is that at this early stage in the growth of your business you can’t afford a big consultancy. If that’s the case and you’d like to know more please get in touch…

Paul Thwaites
Founder, ZUT Brand+Identity

paul@zutalors.design

DIGITIZE

Brand creation: Brand Definition / Brand Positioning / Brand Tone & Language / Brand Identity: Logotype Wordmark, Graphic Icon, Definition Of Photo Image Style, Typography, Supporting Iconography + Formalisation Into Brand Style Guides.

Pilcro

We were brought in by Shoreditch based start up to rework their brand and identity system. Our solution with the logo was to bring in elements that reflect the pilcrow graphic device upon which the brand’s name is based. We then developed a consistent brand identity system that includes supporting iconography and devices, a powerful colour palette plus a clear style for composition of photography.

Breezblok

Brand creation for a shared office space business in central London. Work programme undertaken includes: Brand Naming / Brand Definition / Brand Positioning / Brand Identity / Brand Implementation / Website Design / Stationery.

Base/d

Brand creation: Brand Definition / Brand Positioning / Brand Tone & Language / Brand Identity: Logotype Wordmark, Graphic Icon, Definition Of Photo Image Style, Typography, Supporting Iconography + Formalisation Into Brand Style Guides.

Plaank

Brand creation for an interiors business. Work programme undertaken includes: Brand Naming / Brand Definition / Brand Positioning / Brand Identity / Brand Implementation / POS / Packaging / Website Design / Stationery.

 

The Lux – Singapore

Brand creation: Brand Definition / Brand Positioning / Brand Tone & Language / Brand Identity: Logotype Wordmark, Graphic Icon, Definition Of Photo Image Style, Typography, Supporting Iconography + Formalisation Into Brand Style Guides.

Classic Lifestyle

Brand creation: Brand Definition / Brand Positioning / Brand Tone & Language / Brand Identity: Logotype Wordmark, Graphic Icon, Definition Of Photo Image Style, Typography, Supporting Iconography + Formalisation Into Brand Style Guides.

The brand creation hit-squad.

We’re a small team of ex international branding consultancy people. We work to the same standards as an international branding consultancy because we’re the same people. But because our overheads are lower it means that we’re able to pass that on. Which is good news for startups in particular who tend to have a wealth of vision and ideas when they’re just starting out but a limited budget.

We always say that we make our clients look like they’ve spent £100k when in fact they’ve only spent a fraction of that.

If you’re in the process of thinking about your brand and you’d like to know more please get in touch.

paul@zutalors.design

CARNABY BABY

Brand creation: Brand Definition / Brand Positioning / Brand Tone & Language / Brand Identity: Logotype Wordmark, Graphic Icon, Definition Of Photo Image Style, Typography, Supporting Iconography + Formalisation Into Brand Style Guides.

Studeo

Brand creation for an international teaching app. Work programme undertaken includes: Brand Definition / Brand Positioning / Brand Identity / Brand Guides.

 

Mediatel

Brand creation on behalf of a telecoms business. Full programme include brand definition, identity, tone and language plus implementation programme.

Fort Dunlop

Development of a graphic corporate identity system, logo design and subsequent implementation programme for the regeneration of an iconic West Midlands building on behalf of Urban Splash. The logo references both its heyday in the 20s and 30s as a major tyre production centre – and also the profile of the building itself, whilst industrial sized ‘super graphics’ integrate the wayfinding system into the architectural theme of the building itself.

Work Programme Undertaken Includes:  Brand Definition / Brand Positioning / Brand Identity & Guidelines / Brand Implementation / Super-Large Format Building Graphics & Iconic Sigane / Wayfaring Signage / Advertising / POS / Website Design / Stationery.

 

Zonal

Brand creation on behalf of Europe’s largest hospitality technology solutions provider. Full programme include brand definition, identity, tone and language plus implementation programme.

Bagboard

Brand creation for a new central London tech start-up that uses bags and packaging as an advertising medium… hence the name.

Our work included creating the overall brand and identity.

Apiway

Brand creation on behalf of an application Programming Interface (API) business. Full programme include brand definition, identity, tone and language plus implementation programme.