We Are Your Brands’ Best Friend
White Design Studio, in Cincinnati, Ohio has been helping customers define and refine their brands since 1991.
We’re passionate about how people interface with each other and culture, through things like media, architecture, printed material and interactives. When we tell someone, “We’re a designer”, they say “A designer of what?” we say, well, a lot of things – Corporate Identity… Environmental Branding… Data Visualization? We get a lot of blank stares.
So let us try to explain what we do.
We Think of Brands as People
The same functions that let us see and remember people, let us see and remember brands.
Brands have different ways of dressing. They’re from different cultures, and have different lifestyles. They speak differently. They connect to people through different kinds of media, and contribute different things to our lives. The brands with the biggest impact on us are ones who leave the most focused impressions, the most easily personified.
Social Media Marketing firms, may only be good at deciding what your brand tweets or blogs about. Firms that build houses for brands, have a hard time helping them get dressed in the morning.
When White Design Studio is asked to do one thing for a brand, we can’t help but look at everything. What your brand wears, the parties it throws, its Facebook Wall, the things it does to make money; These should all resonate as one persona.
As a customer, “I like how durable my Jeep is. CocaCola makes me happy. Nike helps me perform. Starbucks is there when I wake up.” These are important “people” in our lives; “people” we trust, and who like the same things we like.
White Design Studio designs Advertising, Environmental Branding, Print, Interactive Experiences, Message Strategy, Social Media, Events, Mobile Applications… But it does these things in a way that lets real people make a connection with your brand, and reenforce that connection every time they see it. We’re the best friends your brand could have. We are White Design Studio.
Here is What We Do
Growing a brand should be thought of as a cycle. Every effort to grow a brand needs to pass through all of the gates in the cycle in order to be effective and in order to maximize the brand’s capital and human resources. When we start a new job, we consider every part of this cycle, even if we have only been tasked to perform one of its stages.
Brand Review
Whenever you create something new, you ought to know where you are starting from. That can sometimes require an audit. You should ask yourself questions like: What are we doing? What was our intended result? What has been the actual result?
Services
Identity Assessment
Market Position Assessment
Brand Strategy
Now that you know where you are, align where you want to go, and create a strategy to get there. That strategy may involve many channels and many initiatives to achieve the resultant growth. Every effort to design something new should be aware of the entire strategy and its place within that strategy.
Services
Brand Architecture
Brand Vision
Goals & Objectives
Brand Design
For any design effort to be effective it should consider the strategy that guides it and the quality, channel, medium and scope of its execution. If all of those things are well-considered, the solution starts to design itself. The design process can then focus on the small brushstrokes of a campaign and really tailor the message to a brand’s entire range of goals.
Services
Concept Development
Identity System Design
Brand Voice & Messaging
Storytelling
Brand Execution
A good design is wasted if it is poorly executed. Too often the schedule and budget to execute something properly is not factored in during the design process and good design gets shelved, or released with lackluster results. Campaigns can be designed to succeed with low-budget execution if it is considered at the start.
Services
Graphic Standards
Graphic Design
Print Collateral
Copy Writing
Website Design
Environmental Branding
Space Planning
Signage & Wayfinding
Interactive Design
Video Editing
Photography
Brand Extensions
Sometimes a brand is really cooking. It has traction with its audience and everything is dialed in just right, and all it needs to do is take what is working and extend it. Extensions can be ways to expose new audiences to your current message or tweak the message to make it fresh for your existing audience.
Services
Social Marketing
Events
App Development
Advertising Campaign
Interactive Experience
Here is How We Do it
We deliver sound advice, strategy and design that addresses every stage in the brand cycle. We think in concept first and medium second. We identify the work that a campaign, or a space, or an interactive needs to do, model a vision of what success looks like, and then design to meet that vision. Because we work in just about every medium, we know that things, easily achieved in one medium, may be impossible in another. So we design with that in mind. We look at what channels your brand is in, where it is likely to go in the near term and long term, and design things that communicate the same way across your brand’s entire spectrum.
A Few Clients
Proctor & Gamble
TATA
Honeywell
Nakheheel
University of Phoenix
United Way
Amadeus
Army
Fischer Homes
Boehringer Ingelhiem
Battelle
CareSource
Markets
Hospitality
Corporate
Retail
Executive Briefing Center
Education
Non-Profit
Museum
Food & Beverage
Donor Recognition
Trade Shows
& Much More
What Can We do for You?