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what is the difference between creative director, art director, creative startegist, branding strategist?
Roughly: strategists decide what the brand should say and why, directors decide how it looks and sounds saying it. Art director owns the craft of one execution, creative director owns the idea across all of them; brand strategist sits at positioning level, creative strategist...
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For brand identity, I like to show mockups to test of the identity system: the logo, pattern, and color palette all needed to work at a much larger scale without feeling overdesigned.
That’s where a flexible brand system really starts to prove itself.
Powerful greenish look 👌
SPRINT — Experimental Brand Visual
A visual experiment built around an unused logo concept from a recent branding project.
The design was created manually, while exploring how AI-driven aesthetics are increasingly influencing contemporary visual language, even when AI itself isn’t part of the design process.
Logo design, art direction and visual exploration.
Good work
A little preview of something I’m working on.
These embroidered patches are a small part of a much larger brand system, but details like this matter. The challenge is making sure the identity still feels distinct and intentional when it moves from screen to something physical you can hold in your hand.
That’s where a strong brand system starts begins to prove itself. More soon :)
