All Logos Files are Not Born Equal
After recently explaining yet again why the jpeg of a logo, taken from the website, can’t be used for a brochure, I thought it might be useful, valuable and insightful for someone to write this down. So here we are. Trying not to get all technical, I’m going to explain as clearly as I can, the difference between the different kinds of files. Hopefully this will save both clients and designers lots of time and heartache.

Different File Types
Most popular image files break down into two basic groups Bitmap or Vector.

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Word on the Web
As some of the world’s largest financial institutions fight their way back to the top of the heap, it’s not all sunshine and kittens when it comes to their battered brand equity. We’ve illustrated a cross section of current brand sentiment for one of the biggest names in the business; Goldman Sachs. As always, it’s worth reading between the lines (literally) – the smaller words tell the story of current sentiment – and the further you look, the more intriguing the narrative.

David Ansett, Brandamentalist
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Word on the Web
Social Brand Snapshot provides a visualized cross section of current blogs, tweets and social mentions of Starbucks, providing an instant view of current brand sentiment.

David Ansett, Brandamentalist
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Brand Agency & Graphic Design Melbourne

Like all new frontiers, social media is a lawless place where anything goes, especially when it comes to brand. Everyone seems to have moved into these boom towns with a population of more than 12 million people projected for Twitterville alone this year. It’s a on-line, communications gold-rush, a world of wonderful opportunity – but exactly what is social media? Is it a tool for social interaction or business commerce? At the moment it’s both.

So with a poorly defined and misunderstood purpose, how should businesses of one to a thousand employees build their brand image on-line? Like all brand building exercises, your social media presence should be consciously directed by a brand strategy; it should be strategic first and tactical second. Currently the vast majority of business presence in social media is driven by what we call ‘Scategy’, a tactically obsessive approach of trying to do a little bit of everything and trying to mean a little bit of something to everyone. The result – your brand ends-up meaning nothing to anyone.

Here are what I believe to be the crucial five steps to building your brand image on social media.

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