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Designing Brand Identity

An Essential Guide for the Whole Branding Team
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Designing Brand Identity by Alina Wheeler is an essential guide for anyone involved in branding, from project managers overseeing a rebrand to educators teaching brand fundamentals. The book covers everything from research and strategy to design execution, launch, and governance. It is structured into three sections: brand fundamentals, process basics, and case studies. Readers will find over 100 branding topics, checklists, tools, and diagrams, alongside 50 detailed case studies and more than 700 illustrations of brand touchpoints.

This comprehensive resource offers practical advice and serves as a blueprint for building, implementing, and maintaining a coherent and impactful brand system on both global and local scales.
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The bestselling guide to branding, updated with emerging trends and technologies Designing Brand Identity provides in-depth guidance for the entire branding team, with a universal five-stage process for brand development and implementation.

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Designing Brand Identity

Design/Business

Whether you’re the project manager for your company’s rebrand, or you need to educate your staff or your students about brand fundamentals, Designing Brand Identity is the quintessential resource. From research to brand strategy to design execution, launch, and governance, Designing Brand Identity is a compendium of tools for branding success and best practices for inspiration.

3 sections: brand fundamentals, process basics, and case studies. Over 100 branding subjects, checklists, tools, and diagrams. 50 case studies that describe goals, process, strategy, solution, and results. Over 700 illustrations of brand touchpoints. More than 400 quotes from branding experts, CEOs, and design gurus.

Designing Brand Identity is a comprehensive, pragmatic, and easy-to-understand resource for all brand builders—global and local. It’s an essential reference for implementing an entire brand system.

Carlos Martinez Onaindia
Global Brand Studio Leader
Deloitte

Alina Wheeler explains better than anyone else what identity design is and how it functions. There’s a reason this is the 5th edition of this classic.

Paula Scher
Partner
Pentagram

Designing Brand Identity is the book that first taught me how to build brands. For the past decade, it’s been my blueprint for using design to impact people, culture, and business.

Alex Center
Design Director
The Coca-Cola Company

Alina Wheeler’s book has helped so many people face the daunting challenge of defining their brand.

Andrew Ceccon
Executive Director, Marketing
FS Investments

If branding was a religion, Alina Wheeler would be its goddess, and Designing Brand Identity its bible.

Olka Kazmierczak
Founder
Pop Up Grupa

The 5th edition of Designing Brand Identity is the Holy Grail. This book is the professional gift you have always wanted.

Jennifer Francis
Director of Marketing, Communications, and Visitor Experience
Louvre Abu Dhabi

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781118980828

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 08 December 2017

Country: United States

Imprint: John Wiley & Sons Inc

Edition: 5th edition

Contributors:

  • Foreword by Debbie Millman

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 20.0mm

Width: 218.0mm

Height: 282.0mm

Weight: 1134g

Pages: 336

About the Author

Alina Wheeler, Philadelphia, PA Branding consultant whose clients have included Vanguard, Berwind, Advanta, Guardian, and IBM; Author of Brand Atlas: Branding Intelligence Made Visible, along with the past best-selling editions of Designing Brand Identity; Member of the advisory council for The Dictionary of Brand along with Seth Godin, Al Ries, Tom Kelley, and Hugh Dubberly; Frequent speaker to executives, practitioners and students around the world.

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