When an Event Needs to Become a Brand: The Story behind Exotic Plaza’s Event Identities
An event can happen once and disappear. A brand has to be remembered.
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When a Brand Outgrows Its Identity
At some point, a brand can become too big for the version of itself people still see. Not in size but in meaning.
More Revisions Don’t Mean Better Design
There is a strange assumption in the design business that if a design has gone through ten rounds of revisions, it must be closer to being “right” than one that took three
10 African Design Agencies and Studios Worth Watching
Africa has never lacked visual culture. What is changing is who gets to shape how that culture appears in modern brands.
Your Competitor Has AI Too. Now What?
If everyone has access to the same tools, competitive advantage has to come from somewhere else. There is something slightly uncomfortable about what AI is doing to business. Not because it is replacing everything. Not because designers are suddenly irrelevant. Because the gap is closing.
AI and the New Economics of Design
For years, the economics of design were relatively easy to understand. If a client needed a logo, a designer would spend three days developing it and later charge for the time, skill, and experience required to produce it. In today’s time, AI has complicated that equation, not because design suddenly costs nothing, but because the cost of producing certain things is smaller than the value clients place on them, and that distinction is changing the business of design.
Good Design Isn’t Enough Anymore
Designing Brands in the Age of AI.