Sessions28
  1. Part IBrand from Business Data
  2. 01Mon Aug 24Kickoff and Introductions
  3. 02Wed Aug 26Design Practice and Process
  4. 03Mon Aug 31Version Control, and Design Practice in the Age of New Mediums
  5. 04Wed Sep 2Discovery Workshop
  6. Sep 7No class
  7. 05Wed Sep 9The Process So Far
  8. 06Mon Sep 14Pitch Studio
  9. 07Wed Sep 16Pitch Studio: the recording
  10. 08Mon Sep 21Should designers design?
  11. Part IIBrand as Foundation
  12. 09Wed Sep 23Process: Definition
  13. 10Mon Sep 28Brand: Storytelling
  14. 11Wed Sep 30Creative Brief Studio
  15. 12Mon Oct 5Aesthetics and the Moodboard
  16. 13Wed Oct 7Standing Apart
  17. Oct 12No class
  18. 14Wed Oct 14Milestone 2: brand explorations
  19. 15Mon Oct 19Design Systems
  20. 16Wed Oct 21Brand Systems: Tokens and Rules
  21. 17Mon Oct 26Brand Systems: Voice and Language
  22. 18Wed Oct 28Testing the System with AI
  23. 19Mon Nov 2System Review Studio
  24. 20Wed Nov 4Milestone 3: the brand, presented
  25. 21Mon Nov 9Design for Meaning: Storytelling, Mythology, and Meaning
  26. 22Wed Nov 11Product-Market Fit
  27. 23Mon Nov 16Brand Book Studio
  28. 24Wed Nov 18Build Session 1
  29. 25Mon Nov 23Guest speaker, to be announced
  30. Nov 25No class
  31. 26Mon Nov 30Build Session 2
  32. 27Wed Dec 2Milestone 4: the brand book and the landing page
  33. 28Mon Dec 7Milestone 4, day two, and Wrap-Up

ART 418 · Session 11 of 28 · Part II · Brand as Foundation

ART 418 11: Creative Brief Studio

Wednesday, September 30

The pitch becomes the brief, in class. First the two readings, Davis on the advanced strategy session and Neumeier on the gap between strategy and design, each run as a test on your own brief. Then what a Markdown file is, and DESIGN.md, a way to describe a visual identity in plain text, with the project template you will use when the repository comes back on October 19. The rest of class is time on the brief, the nineteen sections from Monday, turned in on Blackboard.

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Read before this class

  1. The brief
  2. Creative Strategy and the Business of Designchapter 7, the advanced strategy session, 12 pp.
  3. The Brand Gapthe opening, what a brand is and the gap between strategy and creativity, then the first two disciplines, Differentiate and Collaborate; illustrated and fast

Due

Materials

Reference

Materials

  • The starter repoThe template for the project repository, which comes back on October 19. The README has the steps and where each file goes.
  • The study guideDavis chapter 7 and the opening of The Brand Gap: what each argues, the terms, and which brief sections each one feeds.
  • The creative brief, the simple versionThe nineteen sections from Monday's class, each marked with where its answer comes from. Download the Word copy, fill it in, and turn it in on Blackboard as a PDF or a link.
  • The full creative brief templateThe same sections with where each one comes from and what the books say.
  • The Resume Place briefA finished brief Workhorse wrote for a client in 2022, to compare against.

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