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Product Review: BYOB Building Your Own Brand
About the Book
BYOB Building Your Own Brand is a comprehensive guide for designers, marketers, and entrepreneurs who are looking to create a strong brand presence. The book covers various aspects of branding such as brand strategy, identity assets, logo design, blogging, and marketing.
Pros
- Highly informative and well-structured content
- Provides practical tips and techniques
- Easy to understand and follow
- Includes real-world examples and case studies
- Emphasizes the importance of consistency in branding
Cons
- Some topics could be more in-depth
- Could include more visuals and design examples
- Limited focus on specific industries
Conclusion
Overall, BYOB Building Your Own Brand is a valuable resource for anyone looking to build a successful brand. The book provides actionable insights and practical advice that can be applied to various industries. While it may not cover every specific detail, it serves as a great starting point for designers and marketers.
FAQs
Q: Is this book suitable for beginners?
A: Absolutely! BYOB Building Your Own Brand caters to beginners as well as experienced professionals. It explains branding concepts in a clear and concise manner, making it accessible to all.
Q: Does the book include templates or resources?
A: Unfortunately, there are no templates or downloadable resources included in the book. However, it does provide guidance and references for further exploration.
Q: How relevant is the content to online branding?
A: The book recognizes the importance of digital branding and covers topics like blogging and online marketing. While it has a wider scope, it offers insights that are applicable to both online and offline branding.
Who is this book for? This book is tailored for professionals in the fields of graphic design, branding design, visual design, UI/UX, business administration, brand management, public relations, architecture, interior design, content marketing, and communication design. It is also an informative read for young design and business graduates or students who wish to explore the world of branding. Lastly, this book is also crafted in a simple non-design language for people from all scores of life to explore the world of branding and how brands are established over time.
How to read this book? You can skim through the entire book to find your exact interest and read it separately. You can also read the book in a continuous flow to start by understanding the need for branding and then to creating brand assets. What value will this book bring you? You’ll realize branding is not just the brand logo, some business cards or your letterhead. You’ll realize the amount of time and effort that goes into building a powerful brand that creates a legacy. You’ll realize that branding for products is totally different from service or design. Lastly, you’ll come across some definitive actionable steps to build your own brand.
From the Publisher
Why should anyone read this book on branding?
This book is a comprehensive guide to the first steps you need to build your own brand. It gives you insights into why you need branding and not just marketing for your products and services and will give you a step-by-step approach to craft your own brand strategy and further a brand logo.
Prominent Topics Covered in the Book – Part 1
Brand Strategy
Without a solid brand strategy in place before you begin with the visual elements of brand, you need to strategize how you will portray your brand to the world. You need to pave the path before you can smoothly walk on it. You need to realise that strategy is the single most important step in the entire branding process.
Listening for Your Brand
You cannot start building a brand with your personal biases. You need to listen to what perception people already have for your business. You need to listen to your teams, your friends, your mentors, and anyone who has been associated with your business.
Uncommon Denominator
You need your brand to stand out from the competition in the market. We live in a world of abundance and to stand out from the crowd you need to conduct adequate market research and identify your true distinguishing factor, your uncommon denominator that attracts the attention of your audience in the crowd.
Brand Character
Your brand needs to be as alive as you are. It needs a character and a personality for people to truly associate with it. Once you’ve given a character to your brand, you’ll realise how easy it will become to communicate your brand’s message to the right audience, at the right place, in the right moment.
How will this book benefit you in the long run?
As your brand evolves, you need to make sure all your day-to-day activities are aligned with the brand values and the strategy you had prepared in the branding phase. I have seen companies derail from their brand and when you do that, you’ll need this book to remind you and even go for a rebrand.
Prominent Topics Covered in the Book – Part 2
Brand’s Benefit Ladder
Brand’s evolve as market scenarios change and people’s lifestyles change. Your brand needs to consider a benefit ladder in your brand’s strategy which will help you keep up with the market changes and the disruptions in the world.
Wordmark as Brand Logo
In this book, you’ll get a step-by-step approach and understanding of wordmarks as successful brand logos. You’ll not only get the insight from visual design standpoint but also a research standpoint wherein you’ll see how wordmarks can be beneficial for your brands in the initial stages.
Monogram as Brand Logo
From wordmarks, we’ll move onto monograms which will help complicate brand names to be simplified and resonated amongst the audience in a memorable manner. We’ll see what makes a monogram successful in communication and how to create one from scratch.
Icon as Brand Logo
Lastly, we’ll see how illustrations, icons, and symbols can be leveraged to create powerful brand logos which can spark a unique brand identity in the consumer’s minds. We’ll look at some secret ingredients for making a successful icon logo and a step-by-step approach to creating one.
What I need you to do once you’ve read this book?
First, I need you to take out a moment from your busy life and tell me what value the book brought to your lives. Second, I want you to take the first step towards creating your first brand by crafting a brand strategy and ending with a brand logo. Play around with the learnings from this book.
ASIN : B08VDGBSHX
Language : English
File size : 3291 KB
Text-to-Speech : Enabled
Screen Reader : Supported
Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
X-Ray : Enabled
Word Wise : Enabled
Sticky notes : On Kindle Scribe
Print length : 169 pages
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