Brand & Identity

Brandscape Because your logo deserves a break.

Your logo has been asked to explain your whole business, build instant trust and look great on a hoodie. That’s a lot for one little vector. A brandscape gives it backup: the colors, type, imagery and voice that tell people who you are before they read a word.

Veiled marble statue

The Big RevealMarble, unveiling brands since 2006

What’s included

Everything your brand wears. Chosen on purpose.

The logo is in there too. It just isn’t carrying the whole load anymore.

People decide how they feel about your business in a few seconds. Usually something like “feels legit,” “something’s off” or “did their nephew design this?”

What a brandscape actually is

A brandscape is the whole environment your brand lives in: the colors, the typography, the imagery, the textures, the tone of your headlines. It’s everything people feel when they bump into your business in the wild. Get it right and they understand who you are before they’ve read a single word.

Why we design the logo last

The old way went like this: twelve logo concepts, three months of font debates, someone asking to “make it pop,” and a final mark expected to tell the entire story of the company. Logos aren’t storytellers. They’re signatures. So we flipped the process. We build the world first, then design a logo that lives in it. Something funny happens at the end: clients look at the options and say, “Honestly, these all work.” Exactly.

Accurate beats impressive

We’re not trying to make you look bigger than you are, or smaller. If your brand promises more than you deliver, you get awkward conversations. If it undersells you, nobody calls at all, which is worse, because now you’re amazing and invisible. We aim for the Goldilocks zone: people meet your brand and think, “Yep. This feels right.”

A quick reality check (because we like you)

Branding is powerful, but it isn’t magic. It won’t rescue a broken business model, and a great business can survive a dated look for a surprisingly long time. What a brandscape does is reveal what you already are, so the right people recognize you faster and trust you sooner.

Let’s show the world who you actually are.

Thinking about a rebrand?

Tell us who you are, who you’re for and what people keep getting wrong. We’ll take it from there.

Pro Tips
Straight answers from twenty years of client meetings.
Examples

Brands that look like themselves.

Salt Lake City Fire Department brandscape: patch, badges and the Prepare, Respond, Impact message
Salt Lake City Fire Department · Brandscape
Fizz Brands brandscape with bright soda bottles
Fizz Brands · Brandscape
Children First Education Fund brandscape: scholarship funds for Utah children with special needs
Children First Education Fund · Brandscape
Kukuli ancient Mayan cacao beverage brandscape
Kukuli · Ancient Mayan cacao
Veli Vali coconut water brandscape
Veli Vali · Coconut water
Black Ledger brandscape on dark backgrounds
Black Ledger · Brandscape
Sweet Mahalo snack brandscape
Sweet Mahalo · Snacks
Pricing

Three ways to get recognized.

100% satisfaction guaranteed, with all revisions included until you’re happy.

Mini Brandscape

Keep your logo. Upgrade everything around it.

$499

one-time price

Most popular

Full Brandscape

The whole look, built around who you really are.

$999

one-time price

Pro Package

Full Brandscape, plus everything you print and post.

$2,499

one-time price

Every package includes all revisions until you’re happy, backed by our 100% satisfaction guarantee.

How it works

From “who are we again?” to “yep, that’s us.”

01

Find the personality

A conversation about who you are, who you serve and how you want people to feel when they meet you.

02

Build the world

Colors, type, imagery and textures assembled into one brandscape you can hold up next to anything.

03

Sign it

Logo options designed to live inside that world. Choosing gets surprisingly easy.

04

Roll it out

Files, stationery and, if you need one, a style guide so everyone keeps it consistent.

Questions

Asked at nearly every kickoff.

Do I really need more than a logo?

If you want people to understand you quickly, yes. A logo identifies you. The brandscape is what makes people feel something about you. Small businesses usually need a brandscape long before they need a style guide.

Not always. If your brand lives in a few places and a small team manages it, the brandscape is your gut check. Once more designers, vendors and departments get involved, a style guide keeps everyone from freelancing your identity into something unrecognizable.

Absolutely. That’s what the Mini Brandscape is for: we refine your logo and upgrade the fonts and design elements around it.

Most brandscapes take three to five weeks, depending on how quickly feedback comes back. Revisions are included until it feels right.

Let’s talk

Every great project starts with a little contact.

Book a free consultation. Bring the big idea, the messy brief or the “would it be crazy if…”. We’ll bring the questions, and probably a few good answers.

Two marble hands reaching toward each other, after Michelangelo

The Kickoff MeetingAfter Michelangelo. Coffee not pictured.