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Archive for the ‘Brand & Identity’ Category
Design Basics: How to Win With Simple & Consistent Branding
Good branding makes for good design. The more you can refine your brand, the better your design will be.
The Why & How of Church Names
A church name is no small thing. We talk about why church names matter and share three tips for rethinking your church's name if it comes to that.
How to Create a Brand Style Guide
Communicate your brand consistently and bring legitimacy to your communication by developing a set of standards known as a brand style guide.
Branding & the Local Church
A collaborative church effort in Charlotte, N.C., showcases the practical need for churches to develop branding.
Branding Overload? You Need a Brand Overlord
Is your church suffering from brand overload? Instead of branding every ministry, you need to focus on your church's overall brand.
Relentless Branding
A lesson in relentless branding from clothing retailer Old Navy. Despite being obnoxious, their commercials communicate a clear and recognizable brand.
Fun with Brand Standards
Ambert Rodriguez made a great video threatening bodily harm to anyone who didn't follow the church's brand standards. We talked with Ambert to go deeper on branding.
The Essence of Your Church
What is the essence of your church? What's the one big idea that sums everything up and communicates who you are as a body of believers?
Firestarter: Know Who You Are
Luke Dusek, from Firestarter recipient Bloom in St. Paul, Minn., shares a video lesson in knowing who you are as a church.
Filling in the Gap: 4 Logo Lessons for Churches
Lessons in logo design from Gap’s redesign flub that turned a 20-year-old logo into an Internet joke.
The Diversity Filter
One of the unstated rules in the church world when creating visual communication pieces--especially when visuals call for pictures of people--is to make sure everything looks diverse.
Follow the Leader: More Jesus, Less Personality Pastor
Every church’s brand has a face. And that face belongs to its head pastor. Yes, other components help define the brand: its logo, its graphic standards, its facility, its style ...
Church Logos: The Good, The Bad & The Ugly
COLLIDE magazine covers church logos and has a boat-load of good advice. We already mentioned it on Twitter, but it seemed worth the extra attention. Some of the advice is ...
The Branding Process: Start to Finish
Designer Von Glitschka recently shared his experience doing a branding/identity project for Northwest Church in Shoreline, Wash. He shares the many iterations the design went through as well as some ...
