Lexington Partners sought Leibowitz’s help to craft and execute a brand strategy that emphasizes the firm’s stability as a commitment to quality and as a vital competitive edge. The brand also unifies the tone of voice and visuals to create a cohesive presence.
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Brand Building In An Age of AI Agents
As AI agents increasingly take over tasks like shopping and web browsing, brands face the challenge of how to stay relevant when interacting with bots instead of humans. Jim Misener, President, 50,000feet, highlights strategies to help brands thrive in an era of bot-driven consumer interactions.
Vigor Prepares Brand Refresh For Bad Chicken
Vigor’s work includes brand identity, packaging, signage, menu, merch and more for launch of first Bad Chicken standalone location. Design includes a playful but maverick-y brand mascot.
Tavern Puts Sizzle Back In Sizzler
Brooklyn-based Tavern has rebranded West Coast icon Sizzler, borrowing and adapting image deeply rooted in the brand’s nostalgic heritage.
The Working Assembly Launches Cherries General
The Working Assembly has revitalized a classic ice cream shop while creating a premium shelf space for clients.
Lippincott Taps D’Esopo As President
Lippincott, the global creative consultancy, announceds that Michael D’Esopo will become President of the company and has been designated as its future CEO. Rick Wise, current CEO, will transition into a new role as Chairman.
For Pearlfisher It’s A Dough Brainer
Pearlfisher took the brand formerly known as Doughnut Peddler and transformed it into Bakeface. The rebrand came with a new name, as well as a radically different look with an in your face tone, ew logo, bright color palette and playful taglines.
HBX Branding Revitalizes Identity
HBX Branding has announced the launch of their new brand identity, website and expanded suite of creative services.
Deb Adams
As the Founder and Chief Creative Officer of domo domo, Deb sets the tone and direction of domo domo’s creative team, crafting brand strategy into visual expressions that disrupt categories, create meaningful connections and increase brand value.
Lori Murphy, Rob Keil, Julia Gauger, David Gauger & Jenna Pile
Gauger + Associates is an award-winning advertising and design firm.
Courtney Meredith
Courtney Meredith is the Creative Director and lead Brand Strategist at Design on Edge.
David Lemley
David Lemley is a seasoned brand strategist, creative marketer, and design practitioner who leads Retail Voodoo.
SMAKK Humanizes Skincare Brand For Dogs
SMAKK’s design for FLOOF highlights the role that hygiene, in particular skincare, plays in a dog’s wellbeing. The goal: to interpret the brand applying the same standards and expectations that humans have for their products.
Working With McGruff The Crime Dog
Shay Onorio has worked in brand strategy and design for more than 24 years for organizations throughout the DC Metro Area—and this year, she’s partnering with McGruff The Crime Dog, to help the National Crime Prevention Council (NCPC) shed a light on the global fentanyl epidemic.
A Friendly Rebrand From Franke+Fiorella
Little Brothers of the Elderly-MN Chapter engaged Franke+Fiorella to help them rebrand their organization as Friends & Co. The name makes the group more autonomous and approachable.
Kraft Mac & Cheese Gets Comfortable
Kraft Mac & Cheese has swapped out its logo, noodle smile, colors and even its name for updated versions designed to better reflect the brand’s identity as a classic comfort food. Jones Knowles Ritchie is the design firm.
Wolff Olins Identity Flips The System
Wolff Olins has launched a new brand for DailyPay, which integrates with company payroll systems to enable real-time access to earnings, enabling workers to access pay on demand.
Celebrating The ‘&’ In M&M’s
M&M’s is on a mission to make everyone feel they belong. To advance the goal and bring about a visual refresh, JKR developed an identity that can be mixed and matched to inspire moments of shared fun.
Hyperakt Objects To Legalese
Hyperakt presents a new branding and logo for Brooklyn Defenders, representing over 25,000 Brooklynites a year. The result is encapsulated by three words: Defend, Advocate, Change. The tagline is supported by a wholesale reworking of the verbal identity and communication tone.
Matarazzo Joins CUBOCX As Partner/ECD
Full service global creative agency CUBOCX recently welcomed André Matarazzo as Partner/Executive Creative Director. He’s held leadership positions at the likes of Flag, Sid Lee, SapientNitro and McCann-Erickson.
New LA Cannabis Brand Inspired By Street Culture
New LA-based cannabis gummy and street brand, RERUN, is a cult cannabis brand and a collaboration with Pearlfisher and House of Brands – the first in a portfolio of brands to come.
COLLINS Visualizes Can-Do Attitude
For small business focused NEXT Insurance, COLLINS has developed a playful, hand-drawn style that captures the sincerity, positivity, and the gritty can-do ethos of entrepreneurs. Past periods of stress for small businesses is the inspiration.
CBX Launches CPG Volume Design Offering
Brand design agency CBX launches Forge, a new volume design offering for CPG companies and retailers that can create product packaging scaled across thousands of product SKUs and dozens of product categories.
Affinity Creative Toasts Women’s Empowerment
Affinity Creative Group designed and developed a new digital style and website for Cycles Gladiator Wine. The branding is Inspired by the concept of women’s empowerment.
Public Address Says Yes To Small Batch Experiments
Public Address has completed a project with California winemaker Randall Grahm’s new wine brand, The Language of Yes, a series of small batch experiments.
Conran Design Group Adds Ankur Naik
Conran Design Group has brought on brand storyteller Ankur Naik as Senior Strategist. Naik has worked with leading brands including Burton, Target, BarkBox, Google, Spotify, Showtime and AES.
Brandpie Delivers Unitary AmeriCorps Brand
Global consultancy Brandpie has created a new visual identity and brand strategy for AmeriCorps to increase understanding of the program and to connect with key audiences.
Gretel and The Athletic Get Inline
Gretel collaborates with sports new company The Athletic to develop fresh positioning and a new visual strategy, as well as a campaign that celebrates its commitment to smart long-form sports content.
Trollback Reshapes Culture of Sound
In advance of the launch of IRIS’ Flow Headphones, Trollback+Company delivered a brand foundation, logo and visual identity to help the audio brand standout in a sea of corporate audio and 3D sound technologies.
Madwell Brands Discreet DTC Condoms
Champ, a new line of DTC condoms and lubricants tasked creative agency Madwell with developing their brand strategy and brand identity. The national “Come Prepared” brand launch campaign will run over the next 12 months.
Digital Design Matters More Than Ever
Head of brand strategy at Ceros, Ryan Brown, says we’re living in a changed world, and it’s time we get better at designing it.
Franke+Fiorella Branding Helps School District Excel
Franke+Fiorella has designed a spirited brand identity that reflects Hopkins Public Schools’ quest to deliver a world-class education.
Draper Joins CBX As Senior VP
Brand strategy and design veteran Michael Draper brings startup-style approaches to retailers and CPG manufacturers.
JKR Intros Heinz Global Masterbrand
A new cohesive identity by Jones Knowles Ritchie has launched across Heinz’s international brand portfolio. It encompasses more than 20 product categories.
Oath Graphics Emphasize Creative Expression
OATH has launched in the US with a new visual identity by London-based B&B studio. The design emphasizes the link between mind and body health.
Siegel+Gale Travels With Hudson
Pioneer travel retailer Hudson is now much more. A new logo and brand from Siegel + Gale captures the journey.
Retail Voodoo Names Kelly Frazier To New Creative Position
Retail Voodoo has expanded its team with Frazier’s new position. She will focus on uncovering opportunities for client growth in the food and beverage categories.
BrandOpus Reimagines the Molson Portfolio
BrandOpus worked with Molson Coors to rebrand its Molson portfolio of beers, including a revitalized identity, brand strategy and architecture.
Regenerative Farm Harvests Alexander Isley’s Experience
Alexander Isley helps Philo Ridge Farm, a diversified working farm that integrates livestock, orchards, gardens and community events, to develop a brand and identity system that spreads the word about their mission.