Brand & Design Studio

Strategy

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What a brand audit actually looks like

What a brand audit actually looks like

Mara Okafor

Design Lead

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Mara Okafor

Design Lead

Spoiler: it involves a very large table and every receipt, sign and invoice a company has ever printed. Here is our process, step by step.

Collect everything

We ask clients to send us every printed thing they own: menus, receipts, uniforms, invoices, the sign on the delivery van. Then we lay it all out on the studio’s longest table.

Seen together, inconsistencies jump out. One client had seven different versions of their logo in daily use, and nobody had noticed.

Sort, score, decide

Each item gets a simple score: keep, fix or retire. The result is a one-page map of where the brand is strong and where it leaks. It is usually the most useful document of the whole project.

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