Someone.
Somewhere.
Needing something.
Describe one person and the moment they would need you. A situation is more useful than an audience label.
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The practical series
No. 01 / Digital edition
Six considered exercises for shaping what your business stands for, finding the words, and making a brand brief you can put to work.

A note from the publisher
Before a brand becomes a logo or a website, someone has to decide who it is for, what it promises, and why that promise is believable. This workbook gives those decisions a little room: six exercises, a teaching example, and a brief to bring the thinking together.
For the work ahead,Contents / Six useful exercises
Small questions, made specific. A working brief to carry into whatever comes next.
Take a look insideName one person you can help, and make their situation specific.
Find the occasion that turns a passing interest into a real need.
Write the useful change your business makes possible.
Keep the evidence and the limits of your claim close to the promise.
Choose the words, the tone, and the things you would never say.
Bring the decisions into one short document to share and return to.
An open edition / A working excerpt
Try the questions here.
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Describe one person and the moment they would need you. A situation is more useful than an audience label.
Write the sentence once. Then circle the words another business could also say.
For [a specific person],
we make [a useful change]
possible through
[a believable difference].
Replace one broad promise with a difference you can substantiate.
Original teaching exercises. The book photograph is illustrative; the work starts with your own words.
A way to use it
Make a first pass. Leave it open on your desk. Come back when the next decision needs a little clarity.
Read the prompts and write the version you have today. Leave the difficult questions open.
Read a passage to a collaborator. Notice where you need to explain a little more.
Collect what you can support in the brand brief. Return when the business moves forward.
For independent founders and small teams shaping a business, revisiting an offer, or getting ready to brief a designer. Bring a real idea, a little attention, and the willingness to write a first version.
Before the first page
The example offer is a reading PDF, an editable working document, six brand exercises, a completed teaching example, and a short brand-brief worksheet. The original exercises on this page are available to try here.
Read or print the PDF and write in the editable document. Work at your own pace, alone or with a collaborator. The example offer does not require specialist design software.
The workbook helps you make and record your own decisions. Consulting, identity design, and individual feedback are outside the example offer.
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Make room for a clearer beginning
A reading PDF, an editable working document, and a little structure for the decisions that are yours to make.
The Brand Launch Workbook
Workbook · Teaching example · Brand-brief worksheet
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