A name that says nothing
People cannot repeat what you do, so every ad spends its first line explaining.

Service
A name, a logo, and a few rules that make the company easy to recognize.
Request this workIs this you?
These are common reasons a business looks at this work.
People cannot repeat what you do, so every ad spends its first line explaining.
It looks fine on a slide and turns muddy when it is very small.
The site, the slides, and the packaging were made years apart. They look like different companies.
The brand book is long. The next designer still starts from scratch.
The work
A brand should make the next page and the next ad easier to trust. We keep the rules short enough that people will actually follow them.
The kind of work this usually covers.
What you are called, and one sentence a stranger can repeat.
It works tiny, in one color, and next to what you sell. Not only on a big dark banner.
Font, color, and a few layouts. Enough to stay consistent. Not a long book.
A homepage, a card, or an ad, so you can see the look in the place where a sale happens.
Approach
Say what the company is. Draw the smallest logo that can carry that. Put it on something that sells before the rules get too long.
Timing and the final list of what is included go in the proposal, before any work starts.
Tell us the jobExamples
The delivery is small on purpose. A brand you cannot use is a hobby.
Something a customer can say back to you.
Files for screen and print, including the tiny sizes.
A few pages, not a huge folder nobody opens.
What you sell, in the new look, so you can see if people understand it.
A good fit
The same kind of work can help a shop, a clinic, a factory, a school, or an office. Fit depends on the business.
Why us
A logo cannot rescue a muddy description of what you do.
Small is the size people will actually see.
Long books do not get used.
You see it on something that asks for money, before we stop.
Before you call
The name or the one-sentence line, if those are part of the job. Also the logo, a short set of rules, and one real use, such as a page or an ad.
When the name is why people cannot tell what you sell. A new name is a decision, not the default. Many projects keep the name and fix the look.
Branding decides the name, the logo, and the rules. Web design uses them on a site that asks people to act. We often make one real page or ad, so the brand is not only an idea.
Only if you truly need one. Most teams need a logo, a few rules, and files. A long book is how brands end up unused on a shelf.
Yes. The job is then the logo, the one sentence, and making what you sell easy to recognize.