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Packaging Design: Does Your Brand Walk the Talk?
The influential role product packaging plays in expressing a brand's identity and values can never be underestimated. Impactful packaging design is not just about the visuals; it's also about how effectively it communicates and 'walks the talk.' Effective packaging...
Brand Style Guide: Unifying Your Brand’s Voice and Vision
A brand style guide is more than just a collection of fonts, colours, and logos. It's the roadmap that leads every piece of your brand's communication, ensuring consistency across different platforms, media, and teams. An effective style guide is the cornerstone of a...
The Trio of Brand Identity: Logo, Tagline, and Brand Voice
Creating a strong brand identity differentiates you from competitors, fosters brand recognition and loyalty, and communicates your values and personality to your audience. With my 35 years of experience in marketing and design at 3H Communications, I'd like to share...
‘Value Added’: Redefining the Art of Anticipating
As the business world is rapidly ever-changing, the concept of 'value add' or 'value added' becomes even more important to address. Has the 'value added' concept become like the tipping issue? In the wake of the pandemic, tipping values have increased… and more...
Colour Me Creative: Choosing the Right Palette
Colour is the silent language that speaks volumes about your brand. It's the first thing that catches the eye, influencing perceptions and stimulating emotions Colours evoke emotions, convey messages, and even influence our decisions. As creatives, we're not just...
Creative DNA: What’s Yours?
It's the perfect time to discover your true creative DNA. In this blog I'll be exploring the intricacies of 'creativity' and what it means in today's world— and hopefully dispelling some longstanding misconceptions about the term "creative." Creativity, as we've come...
Visual Storytelling: Unleash It’s Power!
In the realm of digital communication, the old saying, "a picture is worth a thousand words," has never been more pertinent. It's not about replacing words with visuals, but rather about merging these elements to create compelling visual storytelling that resonates...
Brand Building: Don’t Wink in the Dark 2.0
In the spirit of transparency, this is a rework of a brand building strategies blog with the same title I wrote close to a decade ago! This is one of my favourite sayings and the structure of article, I believe is still solid. My original article was written when ...
Post-Pandemic Marketing: Beyond The Exhausted Conversation
We’ve all shared the collective exhaustion of discussing a post-COVID world ad nauseam, and yet, it remains an unavoidable topic. The pandemic's sweeping effects have transformed our lives drastically and, indeed, irreversibly. The old marketing playbook was thrown...
Audience-Centric Marketing: Stop the Self-Talk!
In my 35-years at 3H, I've grown quite fond of an expression I use quite frequently in strategy sessions and yes, even in brainstorming sessions. The expression: – "we are talking to ourselves." It's an amusing acknowledgment of a trap we marketers often fall into....