Branding Guidelines 101: Where Design Meets Marketing

Branding Guidelines 101: Where Design Meets Marketing

1h 12mBeginner2023-02-01

Authors

Kladi Vergine

Kladi Vergine

Award-Winning Designer, Strategist, Author, and Mentor

Course details

Branding is increasingly important to a company’s success. In this course, award-winning designer, strategist, author, and mentor Kladi Vergine shares her branding magic, including all her brand guideline best practices. Kladi gives you an overview of what brand guidelines are and why they're important for any business. She explores the various formats that brand guidelines can be presented as. Kladi dives into the marketing and design components that make up the guidelines, including mission and values, logos, photos, style guides, and more. She also shows how to use Adobe to store your assets. Plus, Kladi shares her best practices for dialing in the brand guidelines layout and styling and, finally, publishing what you’ve created.

Skills covered

Brand ManagementInDesignIllustratorMarketingAdobeOne-Off

Concepts

Introduction

  • Create branding guidelines

Brand Guidelines

  • Discover the purpose of a professional brand guideline
  • Do all businesses need brand guideline documentation
  • Discover why brand guidelines work like a lighthouse
  • Explore a brand guideline's main components

Formats

  • Learn by observing and exploring other company's examples
  • Discover the differences between online and PDF formats

Leverage the Power of the Creative Cloud

  • Leverage the power of CC Libraries to store and share assets
  • No budget for a photographer Browse assets on Adobe Stock
  • Learn how to extract assets from an image with Adobe Capture

Brand Guidelines Layout and Styling

  • Learn how to customize the InDesign workspace
  • Set up an InDesign document to present brand assets
  • Achieve consistency with InDesign parent pages
  • Build consistency within your text by using paragraph styles
  • Display, organize, and style brand assets and images

Marketing Components

  • Discover the importance of the brand mission and values
  • Learn how to communicate the brand personality

Design Components

  • Display a logo and its clear space
  • Outline and detail a brand color palette to build a theme
  • Learn the importance of establishing a brand typeface
  • Choose the most appropriate photography for your brand

Ready to Share

  • Discover how to add interactive links to a document
  • Create, preview, and update an interactive index
  • Publish online to share your file with the world

Conclusion

  • Establish a long-lasting brand identity
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