Identity

A logo is not a brand

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Written by

Marcus Hale

Published on

14 October 2026

We love logos. We draw hundreds of them. But a client who asks only for a logo is usually asking for something bigger and does not know it yet.

People do not remember a mark. They remember how the parcel arrived, what the confirmation email said and whether the website answered their question in one scroll.

Where the brand actually lives

It lives in the voice of a support reply, the colour of a receipt, the photo on the menu and the way a page loads on a train. The logo is the signature at the bottom.

So what do we design?

A system: type, colour, image style, tone of voice and a handful of rules that make all of it feel like one company. The logo comes out of that work, not the other way round.

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