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The best brand systems I've built are boring and I've made peace with it.
Early on I wanted every project to be exciting with a new idea on every surface. It felt like the work. Then I watched those brands fall apart the moment I handed them off. The magic didn't transfer. It lived in my head.
The boring ones held with five rules:
A type system
A way of speaking
Decided once, written down, nobody allowed to freelance on it a junior designer could open the file on a Friday and ship something on-brand without calling me.
An exciting brand needs a genius in every meeting while a boring one needs a rule everyone keeps.
One of those keeps working while you're on a plane and the other one was always just you.
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superb every concept is outstanding🔥 😍
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