Back when I was doing my honours year at University, I came across a story from a previous honours student who was also majoring in corporate identity. She was writing her thesis on how a rebrand would affect the employees of a company, with the hypothesis that the new look would help breathe new life and energy into the employees while creating better unity that would in turn increase job satisfaction and productivity. But as it turned out, things hadn’t gone that way.

A logo can be almost anything, designed by anyone, and used in any way a business owner or marketing manager sees fit. So what goes into creating a professional logo design that doesn’t happen when a logo is designed by a five-dollar logo website or the office manager’s sister-in-law who has a ripped copy of CorelDRAW?

Branding and communications can, and will, alter the whole way the business runs and is perceived both internally and externally. This is why I talk about empowering businesses and organisations to establish and communicate their story.