design

How Your Brand Visuals Impact Your Viewer's Brain

How Your Brand Visuals Impact Your Viewer's Brain

A brand is so much more than a logo, name, or visual identity—its what people think about your business, product, or individual. It encompasses every experience, interaction, and message that shapes how someone feels about your brand.

Brands are built one impression at a time and in ways that most people aren’t even aware of.

Six Ways to Know if Your Visual Brand Standards Are Working

Six Ways to Know if Your Visual Brand Standards Are Working

Graphic standards are designed to create visual cohesiveness for your brand. But their usefulness can vary widely depending on how old they are, how robust they are and how they’ve responded to changes in your world.

Here are six questions to ask to see if your graphic standards are still serving you well—or if they need an update.

An Inside Look at a Website Redesign

An Inside Look at a Website Redesign

Have you ever been completely taken in by a website, but couldn’t really say why?

That’s because many of the visual cues are recognized subconsciously, rather than consciously. These include data-driven cues, color, call to action placement, type choice and format, and images.

A good website creator will pay scrupulous attention to these and other tried-and-true techniques when they develop a new website.

A Look Inside an Award-Winning Community Awareness Campaign

A Look Inside an Award-Winning Community Awareness Campaign

What goes in to making a campaign that gets noticed—and creates awareness?

Lots of decisions! Here are some of the reasons behind the campaign we created with the Walla Walla County Department of Community Health, as part of their work to prevent suicide, provide access to mental health resources, de-stigmatize mental health issues, create awareness about the dangers of fentanyl, and prevent opioid use.