Status: 🟡 In testing

Length: 15 weeks

Time needed: 4–8 hours a week

A brand is so much more than just a logo—it’s a living system that connects with people through visual language, tone, and cultural resonance. In this course, you’ll explore what brands are in their fullest sense and develop practical skills by creating a complete brand identity for an organization of your choosing. You’ll investigate the cultural patterns that make brands meaningful, develop strategic positioning, design visual systems, and test how your brand identity works across different contexts and applications.

By the end of this course, you’ll have created a professional brand identity system including strategy, visual identity, and guidelines—work you can use in your portfolio.

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Week 1. Choosing Your Brand Project

??? Week 1.5. Fundamental Audience Research

Week 2. Cultural Audit and Visual Research

Week 3. Audience Research and Empathy

Week 4. Brand Strategy Foundation

Week 5. Naming and Verbal Identity

Week 6. Visual Exploration and Sketching

Week 7. Digital Development and Iteration

Week 8. Color Palette Development

Week 9. Typography System

Week 10. Logo Finalization and Lockups

Week 11. Brand Applications: Print

Week 12. Brand Applications: Digital

Week 13. Brand Guidelines Development