Designing a Conceptual Brand | Graphic Design Portfolio
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Building a portfolio that is credible enough to attract more clients is much easier if you use conceptual projects! 🤯 Here, Rachel takes us step by step through a conceptual brief and how to develop a brand identity.
📽️ CHAPTERS
00:00 - Intro
00:18 - Strategy
01:53 - Mood board
09:24 - Sketching process
22:42 - Refining the logo
33:51 - Testing colors
43:17 - Illustration sets and graphics
48:57 - Mockups
51:05 - Presentation
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One of the best logo design videos I’ve seen on KZread because she actually explains it instead of rushing through plus you get to see her actual sketches and even bits on illustrator that didn’t work. Would love more of these with this designer as learnt a lot.
@rachelhurry3449
Жыл бұрын
Glad you enjoyed it Matthew :) hoping to do a few more similar style videos in the future. Thanks for the support! 💜
@ethanrogers9627
Жыл бұрын
Yeah especially seeing the bits that didn't work. I was watching that carrot for the ages thinking it looked wrong but I didn't know how to fix it. Rachel's solution was dope, I learned a lot.
@juststuff01
Жыл бұрын
It's so inspiring!
Please do more videos like this with Rachel 🥺 This was so insightful and inspires me so much!
@FluxAcademy
Жыл бұрын
coming up!
@rachelhurry3449
Жыл бұрын
Ah thank you Monique! Glad you enjoy them - there is another one on its way 😉
That was such a delight to watch! I do brand strategy and marketing for my clients, but this has inspired me to go back to my love of aesthetics and offer a package with the whole nine graphic yards in it as well. Well done Rachel!
I love how you walked through choosing brand colors. It was so helpful!
Great job. Loved the pacing and the charming attitude dealing with difficulties and challanges. I won't be forgetting some great highlights! And one more thing... thorough work!
This is the first video I watched of yours and am totally floored. The step by step explanation is so helpful for novice people like me. Thanks a tonne and keep making such informative videos
This was the video that I didn’t know I needed. Thank you so much for the time and work you put into this video.
This is the first video I've seen from this channel, but I have to say, this was so insightful and inspiring!!
I can't get enough of your videos. Please make more! I can't find any other designer that I like as much on KZread :)
This was awesome. Loved how you kept it real and showed the whole process from what worked to what didn’t.
So enjoyable to watch. Absolutely love your tutorials and process
Thanks for sharing this, Rachel! It was really cool to see your personal approach to the process! 👍 Keep it up! 🚀
Detailed design process. Thank you so much for this walk through. It's super helpful. Definitely going to be coming back to this ever now n then.
Great work and excellent explanation of your process!
This is super helpful and valuable. Thank you! Building a portfolio is so intimidating, I needed a step by step
Soo helpful! Thank you for all these tips and tricks! ❤ I love your process and the results!
AMAZING!! Loved it, thank you!!
Wow i’m blown away amazing video thank you so much!!! You are a wizard! I’m inspired! Thank you thank you!!
Excellent process insight video! It's very good that you show your 'fight' and ease us to say that it's normal.
This was very informative! Thanks for creating it.
Totally enjoyed this tutorial. Waiting for more. Thanks
I really enjoy branding design videos from you. Thank you so much. I wish Flux did more videos like this. I learn so much from these!
@rachelhurry3449
Жыл бұрын
More coming soon ☺️💜
Rachel. You are amazing. Your Work. Your Thinking. Your Thought process. Amazing Rachel. I can imagine how happy and lucky your clients are. I loved watching you Designing a Conceptual Brand. I made a space to watch this 1 hour video on my early morning because I know I will like it so much and there will be so much valuable information in it. Thank you so much for making such great video. The best way to kick start my day and get inspired and motivated. And maybe work on my portfolio too. I wish I could do things like you. There is a lot to learn here. Thanks again and that was long comment from me. 😊
@rachelhurry3449
Жыл бұрын
So happy you enjoyed it and I’m very glad the video inspired you! Thanks for the long comment and for taking the time to watch it 💜
I really enjoy the process i quite like the final look i think it's really amazing!
awesome video! thank you very much for sharing your proccess!
Loved it !!! It's going to help me a lot for my branding design creation ! Thank you
Thank you so much for this video. You've done an amazing job with explaining all the steps ❤
@rachelhurry3449
Жыл бұрын
Glad you enjoyed it - thanks for watching 🤗
Thank you, Rachel!😍
That was really inspiring and helpful. Thank you❤️
This video is awesome! Love it ❤
It would have been so great to see the process of you putting together a mood board, what you search for, what makes the cut and why, etc.
thanks, it actually let me through so i could download it.
Always love your tutorials, thanks for the great content!❤❤
@rachelhurry3449
Жыл бұрын
Thanks for watching! ☺️💜
thank u so much ☺ amazing job
Inspiring tutorial! Thank you!
Brilliant! Thank you!
Thank you Rachel!
this video is my inspiration ❤
Great detailed information ❤
Great list almost used all the hacks.. but pr pro is love ❤️
Thank you for giving so much of valuable speech
Hey man, It works great and without any problems.
Very inspinring. Thank you very much for sharing, Rachel
@rachelhurry3449
Жыл бұрын
Happy you enjoyed it!
Good to see you again Rachel! Good point on building the BUFFER $ that's why just charge more so you can hire someone or give you more time to figure it out. Love the logo too fun with the carrot!
@rachelhurry3449
Жыл бұрын
Thanks Jeremy! Was great fun loosening up a bit with this one 😁🥕
Loved the video and watching the entire process!
@rachelhurry3449
Жыл бұрын
Thanks for the watch Eve! 💜
nice process!
Thank you so much!
Unreal explanation.
very helpful this was
not even half way through it but I really love these videos. keep it up and very helpful!
@FluxAcademy
Жыл бұрын
Thanks!
@rachelhurry3449
Жыл бұрын
Thanks for the support! 😁
Hi Rachel, is it possible to make a video on how to make a moodboard and define the creative direction or style of the future brand. Please, this is one of the most difficult things for me, I know you have a great approach and good advice for me on this subject. Thanks, I'm looking forward to it.
!!! Thanks a lot ...☺️☺️
Hey awesome video, folks! Can you please do another video sharing your brand design process but for something more corporate? And also, it would really be cool if you included your brand deck templates in Figma! Thank you so so much!!!
Very helpful 🖤🖤 Excited to watch the full video
@FluxAcademy
Жыл бұрын
Good to hear!
@rachelhurry3449
Жыл бұрын
Glad you’re enjoying it so far! 💜
Great!
tested on ios12 as well. so far it's good to use
this good ideas for me thanks
very nice and clean explanation, as always. you're cool Rachel. I have a question: inventing a brief from scratch is not an easy thing to do, are there any methods or resources that help in its creation?
Well done! Very engaging.
@rachelhurry3449
Жыл бұрын
Thanks for watching! 💜
can you make a video showing us how to use mock-ups?
Omg this is so good
@rachelhurry3449
Жыл бұрын
💜🙌
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nice tutorial
I loved this so much! just a question though, how do you use your procreate illustrations across into illustrator? Just what does that process look like for you?
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I think you’re one of the most insightful designers I’ve seen on KZread when explaining your direction with the fictional brand when gathering and analyzing other people’s work. It shows in the mood board you gathered and I can see you have it in you. But things started to unravel for me during your logo sketching phase. There’s not enough variety. Every sketch looked like the next one and it really wasn’t adhering to any specific issues the brand might encounter when standing out from other brands on a shelf. The first thing a designer needs to think about when branding a company is not “Pinterest visual inspo.” It is problems. Every company has them. In this case, a startup has: less money, more problems. Think like a UX designer and think like a business owner. The first thing you tackle in UX and business are pain points and how does design fit around that, not the other way around. - AD with 20+yrs in the field.
@briantyson698
6 ай бұрын
I like the way you have articulated graphic design process should start from the point of solving the existing problems. More like starting with a Problem statement, then finding the perfect design that will fill the gap. I would love to have a look at some of your work. Can I get a link?
Great work! Would you also recommend doing a Competitor Analysis during the Branding process? I've seen some do it and some don't. What are the pros & cons for it? Thanks again for explaining your process.
@rachelhurry3449
Жыл бұрын
For a client project definitely, looking at competitors is key to understanding te market. But I just left it out if this practice project :)
Would it b helpful to bring the sketches in larger. It may trace them better. Just a thought.
you are better than Ran Segall . Your tutorials are more clearer and easy to understand . Watching rans video takes lots of energy from my side just to understand him 😂but you are awesome . Please make more videos 🤗
@rachelhurry3449
Жыл бұрын
Hahahaha thank you! Ran is the one who taught me how to make good videos 😊 I appreciate the very kind compliment! More videos coming soon!
Can you say roughly about how many hours you spent on this project? Really amazing work 😍
Great video! Super informative and helpful. No choice but to subscribe :)
@FluxAcademy
Жыл бұрын
yey! glad to have you with us Jasmine. More good stuff coming!
@rachelhurry3449
Жыл бұрын
Welcome to the family Jasmine! 😊
Although the explanation is very elaborative and given with logic, will it be possible to explain the 4 areas of the strategy? and how the logo colour is chosen? like when the moodboard is made, what aspects from the strategy did you keep in mind? the colours, why did you choose those colours?
Couldn't find the brief in the description link. It is redirecting to the KZread video again
Do you recommend paper textured screen protectors?
It would be so helpfull to see video focused in depth on strategy
@rachelhurry3449
Жыл бұрын
Great idea. I’ll see what I can do :)
@thisismeags6902
Жыл бұрын
@@rachelhurry3449 Agreed! I'd love to learn about your strategy process.
I had a question for very long time regarding Contract. Say that I took online signature on online contract form. But what is the point of it? How it's legally helpful? I just designed it and taking signature from him. If he does anything with my files, like not giving payment, how the contract paper will help then? If he is overseas, or in local places, how a self designed contract paper will help me get justice? Make a video on contract if possible 🥺 Thank you!
Sounds like you're from South Africa, great job.
@rachelhurry3449
Жыл бұрын
Proudly 😁🇿🇦
With regards to the color section, I sometimes feel that certain shapes, within the context of the overall logo, does not work with certain colors. So choosing a color that works with the shape of the logo as well is something to be considered too. But I could be wrong🤷♂️ it's just how my intuition feels when I'm designing logos.
@rachelhurry3449
Жыл бұрын
Love this thinking!
ok I’ll try that lol
Wow, I love those videos. You said you left a brief for downloading in the description below... I can't find that.
@FluxAcademy
Жыл бұрын
oops. added to the description now
@michaelbrauner
Жыл бұрын
@@FluxAcademy Thank you!
Why don't you use any graphic tablet while working on illustrator? I guess that would be much easier to manipulate those shapes !!
@rachelhurry3449
Жыл бұрын
It’s a good point! And I would say my reasoning would come down to screen size. I like working with a bigger screen but you could definitely do the smoothing etc on the iPad app ☺️😁
@md.tanvirahmedsaimon768
Жыл бұрын
@@rachelhurry3449 Yes.. screensize is a big issue for me .. I work on a laptop and I have a graphic tablet for these kinds of illustrations. Your video always inspires me to design something good and get better evryday. Thanks a lot for contibuting to the global design comunity
This is an amazing run through from start to finish, thank you for sharing! I’m very new to Illustrator so it was great seeing the tips! One question, when I ungroup text and outline it, when I tried to move multiple letters it wouldn’t work. I did what I saw you saw and click and drag a box over to select them all, but when I clicked to move them it just grabbed one of the letters OR it would do a weird thing where some of the anchor points stayed out and everything skewed? Any ideas what I did wrong? Lol!
@rachelhurry3449
Жыл бұрын
You need to regroup the letters so that they stay together - you can select them all and go to Object > group or use the shortcut CMD G or CNTRL G
@xanderneal
Жыл бұрын
@@rachelhurry3449 thanks :)
how long does this take?
So where are the links to download the work files? The link provided takes you somewhere it says let us know where to send you the link to download the files. You sign up and that's all, nothing, no link sent. It happened with the Figma tutorial, and now this one.
Awesome video Rachel 💜 but I cannot find the brief you mentioned in min 55:13
@FluxAcademy
Жыл бұрын
Sorry! added to the description now.
@estherienriquez
Жыл бұрын
@@FluxAcademy thank you so much! 🤗
How about the golden ratio in logos? Is it important in this case?
@rachelhurry3449
Жыл бұрын
In this case, no - but often the golden ratio can help with composition :)
Is the font you guys used in the thumbnail and lower thirds integral?
@FluxAcademy
Жыл бұрын
yep
Why wasn't the sketching on the iPad a vector based illustration?
@rachelhurry3449
Жыл бұрын
Good question - it’s mostly because I use the iPad to replace a normal sketchbook and I prefer the looseness and freedom of sketching freehand without worrying about being perfect in a vector based program :) I’d rather refine later in the process :)
It's funny how some of the names are associated with the same industry, even if they come from different sources. In the 2000s there was a Benjys London sandwich shop. It was very successful at the time until it was sold for £40 million. It eventually collapsed in 2007. It sounds a little different, but still. There's a Benjies deli in New York. I haven't seen a flower shop or a locksmith called Benji yet)) And now even imaginary customers want a deli called Benjies.
Dear Rachel, I'm not a designer but I'm want to create a brand. Unfortunately I'm not the most artsy person so I want to hire this service. However I don't know a fair price for this service. Can you please share how much this process could cost? Thank you
I love you
But I always come across clients who's gonna say "we don't only sell carrot items, it highlights carrot a lot, can we remove the carrot and make something else". How would you defend this. On the other hand as a designer, I would def want to give a hint of local items on logo, and it looks good I know..however I want to learn to defend designs..
It might be an idea to mention what a brand is - people's perception of you/your company. And because of that, branding is largely impossible. You can influence it in positive and negative ways. But there are as many impressions of you/your company out there as people.
@crossxer6099
Жыл бұрын
words of Marty Neumeier, nice
@SveinWisnaes
Жыл бұрын
@@crossxer6099 Search for an article called "Branding is bullsh**". Using vague buzzwords is popular, but I amm all for using better language.
@Fostit
Жыл бұрын
Could you elaborate on why Branding is impossible?, there’s an entire industry around branding that makes it possible.
@SveinWisnaes
Жыл бұрын
@@Fostit There is a whole industry using the word wrong. A logo is a logo. A corporate design guideline is just that. A brand is what your customer thinks about you and your product. It is in their head. You can not design that. You can influence it. But that is not branding. people say they are going to design a brand. And they mean a logo. You can influence your brand in a good way by doing good things. Behave well. Or you can do like VW did - try to cheat on tests and really hurt your brand. A brand is closer to a reputation. It would not make sense to say that you are going to design a reputation? But as customers don't really know what a brand is, they hear the buzzword and are to intimidated to ask. The person claiming to do branding really must know what they are talking about, right?
@Fostit
Жыл бұрын
@@SveinWisnaes I understand your points but I don't agree; Yes you can design a brand by taking in consideration company values, and the target audience for the company. That's the point of the whole process. Is designing something for a specific persona and this will influence on how they percieve your brand. Branding is creating a way to communicate your values and make people feel empowered and related to it. Can you design a valuable brand overnight? No, that I must say it's impossible, you have to build it, but you need the tools to achieve that goal and designing a branding concept is the first step.
Pattern design software name ❓❓❓
@rachelhurry3449
Жыл бұрын
Adobe Illustrator 👍
Starlight?? 😅
Hey, audio is very low, hard to hear with hradphones
@lamaan
Жыл бұрын
audio is good on my end
does the soft like Michael Jackson just to ?
🤣She was on the verge of wanting to punch the screen ....
Why does it sound like you’re South African? Are you, I’m just curious about your accent. 😂 btw great job !
@FluxAcademy
6 ай бұрын
Yep! 🇿🇦
Mark 16:06
@natthawans2043
Жыл бұрын
18:33
@natthawans2043
Жыл бұрын
29:00
@natthawans2043
Жыл бұрын
32.46 checking balance
@natthawans2043
Жыл бұрын
Zoom test
@natthawans2043
Жыл бұрын
Adjusting color. 36.34