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Created a new brand mark for an educational nonprofit following a merger. While the branding of the previous organization, Developmental Studies Center, was primarily focused on literacy, the new directive was to emphasize collaboration and community, and to move away from a strictly literacy focus. The new mark evolves the this nonprofit educational publisher’s logo with a focus on students, diversity, and collaboration, with a nod to books.
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2026 is "the year of the B2B rebrand."
Except most companies are doing it backwards.
They're changing logos, picking new colors, refreshing typography and calling it a rebrand.
Meanwhile, their positioning hasn't changed. Their messaging is still confused. Their website still tells a story from two funding rounds ago.
Here's what I've seen with my work through actual inflection points:
The rebrand that works isn't visual first. It's positioning-first.
You figure out where the company actually operates now, you build a messaging hierarchy that reflects the current product, the current buyer, the current competitive landscape. Then you design a system that communicates all of that.
If your rebrand starts with "who are we now and who needs to know?" you're building something that compounds.
Top work, always 💯🫡
A few mascotte tests that sadly will never see the light of day. Client decided to stick to "normal" branding. 😭
It is certainly their loss! This would've been such a memorable mark. Love it :D
1/ Most B2B tech companies aren't under performing they're under communicating, what do I mean about that?
There's a concept I use with every client before we open Figma and it's called the Credibility Gap.
It's the distance between what your company actually is, so that would be the product, team, traction, roadmap and what your brand communicates when someone lands on your website.
Most growth stage B2B companies have this problem because they built the brand early and never revisited it, while the product grew up, the brand didn't.
So now you're pitching enterprise deals with a visual identity that says "bootstrap stratup" and you're losing to competitors half your size who just look more polished. Your best prospects Google you, see a site that screams Series A, and quietly downgrade their expectations before the first call.
The credibility gap is real and most companies don't even know they have it. Brand growing alongside the product is key
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