#yoitoi summit How can brand identity be established? Manabu Sakamoto(ARROWGRAPH)+Roy Husada(Rare Standard)
- Love is essential in building a brand, but it must be paired with honesty about the product's quality.
- Branding is like medical care: diagnose the truth and help the product recover, rather than covering up flaws.
- Logos are often overrated—true branding lies in balancing product reality with visual and emotional storytelling.
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Building a brand demands love—an emotional investment that goes beyond surface-level visuals. But this love must coexist with honesty. A good brand expert, like a doctor, doesn’t just tell the patient what they want to hear. Instead, they diagnose truthfully and help the product recover or live with its flaws.
There is often a gap between the brand’s external image and the reality of the product. It’s not uncommon to work on a branding project where the product is, frankly, bad. In those moments, the challenge isn’t to cover up the flaws but to treat the situation with care and realism. The best branding is not about polishing something until it gleams falsely—it’s about doing your best, releasing it, and sometimes stepping back.
A critical part of branding is not hiding the product's shortcomings but attempting to persuade honestly. This involves positioning, messaging, and expressing a visual philosophy that matches reality. At its core, branding is about achieving balance—between idealism and realism, between vision and product truth.
There’s also a reflection on the role of logos. Are they really that important? For many, the logo is the brand, but this notion is challenged. Logos are often overvalued. They are only a small part of a larger system that communicates a brand's philosophy visually.
Ultimately, building a brand is about translating an internal belief system into a coherent, visual expression. It is about aligning values, product reality, and visual storytelling into something audiences can connect with.
Conclusion
Branding is not just about aesthetics or polishing a poor product. It's about love, truth, and balance. Great branding is a practice of visualizing philosophy, confronting product reality honestly, and not overestimating superficial elements like logos.
#yoitoi summit How can brand identity be established? Manabu Sakamoto(ARROWGRAPH)+Roy Husada(Rare Standard)
- Love is essential in building a brand, but it must be paired with honesty about the product's quality.
- Branding is like medical care: diagnose the truth and help the product recover, rather than covering up flaws.
- Logos are often overrated—true branding lies in balancing product reality with visual and emotional storytelling.
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Building a brand demands love—an emotional investment that goes beyond surface-level visuals. But this love must coexist with honesty. A good brand expert, like a doctor, doesn’t just tell the patient what they want to hear. Instead, they diagnose truthfully and help the product recover or live with its flaws.
There is often a gap between the brand’s external image and the reality of the product. It’s not uncommon to work on a branding project where the product is, frankly, bad. In those moments, the challenge isn’t to cover up the flaws but to treat the situation with care and realism. The best branding is not about polishing something until it gleams falsely—it’s about doing your best, releasing it, and sometimes stepping back.
A critical part of branding is not hiding the product's shortcomings but attempting to persuade honestly. This involves positioning, messaging, and expressing a visual philosophy that matches reality. At its core, branding is about achieving balance—between idealism and realism, between vision and product truth.
There’s also a reflection on the role of logos. Are they really that important? For many, the logo is the brand, but this notion is challenged. Logos are often overvalued. They are only a small part of a larger system that communicates a brand's philosophy visually.
Ultimately, building a brand is about translating an internal belief system into a coherent, visual expression. It is about aligning values, product reality, and visual storytelling into something audiences can connect with.
Conclusion
Branding is not just about aesthetics or polishing a poor product. It's about love, truth, and balance. Great branding is a practice of visualizing philosophy, confronting product reality honestly, and not overestimating superficial elements like logos.