Designing Brand Identity: A Comprehensive Guide to the World of Brands and Branding 6th Edition by Alina Wheeler and Rob Meyerson
About the Book
Revised and updated sixth edition of the best-selling guide to branding fundamentals, strategy, and process.
It’s harder than ever to be the brand of choice―in many markets, technology has lowered barriers to entry, increasing competition. Everything is digital and the need for fresh content is relentless.
Decisions that used to be straightforward are now complicated by rapid advances in technology, the pandemic, political polarization, and numerous social and cultural changes.
The sixth edition of Designing Brand Identity has been updated throughout to address the challenges faced by branding professionals today.
This best-selling book demystifies branding, explains the fundamentals, and gives practitioners a roadmap to create sustainable and successful brands.
With each topic covered in a single spread, the book celebrates great design and strategy while adding new thinking, new case studies, and future-facing, global perspectives.
Organized into three sections―brand fundamentals, process basics, and case studies―this revised edition includes:
- Over 100 branding subjects, checklists, tools, and diagrams
- More than 50 all-new case studies that describe goals, processes, strategies, solutions, and results
- New content on artificial intelligence, virtual reality, social justice, and evidence-based marketing
- Additional examples of the best/most important branding and design work of the past few years
- Over 700 illustrations of brand touchpoints
- More than 400 quotes from branding experts, CEOs, and design gurus
Whether you’re the project manager for your company’s rebrand or you need to educate your staff or students about brand fundamentals, Designing Brand Identity is the quintessential resource.
From research to brand strategy, design execution to launch and governance, Designing Brand Identity is a compendium of tools for branding success and best practices for inspiration.
About the Author
Rob Meyerson is a namer, brand consultant, and principal and founder of Heirloom, an independent brand strategy and identity firm.
Before founding Heirloom, Rob’s roles included head of brand architecture and naming at HP, director of verbal identity at Interbrand in San Francisco, and director of strategy at FutureBrand in Southeast Asia.
His past clients range from the Fortune 500 to Silicon Valley startups, from San Francisco to Shanghai, including brands such as Adobe, GE, John Deere, Disney, Intel, Microsoft, and Walmart.
An experienced namer, Rob is the author of Brand Naming: The Complete Guide to Creating a Name for Your Company, Product, or Service.
Rob has written about brand strategy and brand naming for leading publications such as Entrepreneur, TechCrunch, Insider, The Guardian, VentureBeat, and Branding Strategy Insider.
And, interesting fact – he’s 6 feet 5 inches tall!
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Links…
- Designing Brand Identity: A Comprehensive Guide to the World of Brands and Branding 6th Edition by Alina Wheeler and Rob Meyerson (Amazon)
- Remembering Alina Wheeler (1948-2023), Print Magazine
- Designing Brand Identity (book website)
- Rob Meyerson (LinkedIn)
- Rob Meyerson (website)
- Heirloom Agency
- How Brands Are Built (blog & podcast)
- Brand Naming: The Complete Guide to Creating a Name for Your Company, Product, or Service by Rob Meyerson
- The Carbon Almanac: It’s Not Too Late (Marketing Book Podcast interview with Seth Godin and David Meerman Scott)
- FUSION: How Integrating Brand and Culture Powers the World’s Greatest Companies by Denise Lee Yohn
- How Brands Grow: What Marketers Don’t Know by Byron Sharp
- The Ehrenberg-Bass Institute for Marketing Science
- Institute of Practitioners in Advertising (IPA)
- B2B Social Selling Strategy: Connect with Customers, Build Relationships, and Drive Sales by Julie Atherton (Marketing Book Podcast interview)
- Positioning, 20th Anniversary Edition: The Battle for Your Mind by Al Ries and Jack Trout
- David Ogilvy
- The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell
- Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell
- Predictably Irrational, Revised and Expanded Edition: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions by Dan Ariely
- Breakout Brands: Why Some Brands Take Off…and Others Don’t by Jared Schrieber (Marketing Book Podcast interview)
- Conquer Your Rebrand: Build a B2B Brand That Customers Love and Competitors Envy by Bill Kenney
- Make a Living Designing Logos by Ian Paget
- Logos that Last: How to Create Iconic Visual Branding by Allan Peters
- Made by James: The Honest Guide to Creativity and Logo Design by James Martin
- Identity Designed: The Process: Research, Strategy, Design, Implementation by David Airey
- Mini MBA online courses with Mark Ritson
- Gramograms.com
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