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Brand guidelines

The Gladman G embossed on a gold band

What goes into brand guidelines

Most of the people using your brand guidelines won’t be designers: your own team, a printer, a sign maker, whoever you hire next. We write them for when we’re not in the room, short enough to read and exact enough to settle an argument. They cover the mark and its clear space, the colours with their values, the type and how it behaves at small sizes, and worked examples of the things you make.

Gladman’s mark existed only as a bitmap. We redrew it and wrote twenty-one pages of guidelines, now an online guide their team works from. Rare Disease Research UK needed a hub and eleven research nodes to look like one platform, so the guidelines carry a lockup for each node. Locala’s are applied by their own team, nine years on, from strategy documents to corridor signs.

Rare Disease Research UK: RD-IMAG guidelines
Belvedere: guidelines spread
Locala: brand guidelines, 2017

Featured Work

Rare Disease Research UK identity

Identity for twelve research teams

Gladman brand refresh

Rebrand, guidelines and rollout

RD-IMAG identity

Second mark for a research group

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