donderdag 28 oktober 2010

Housestyle materials: representing a company


Currently, many corporations match their websites and logos with their housestyle materials. This is a normal procedure seen across a wide array of sectors and industries.

The unique style and branding strategies of a corporation, are often translated into a wide array of printed materials:
  • business cards
  • corporate envelops
  • corporate letterhead business letters
  • corporate greeting cards
  • corporate fonts
  • corporate templates for documents
  • brochures
  • flyers
  • leaflets
  • corporate stationary
  • vehicles
  • billboards
  • etc.

Housestyle materials: corporations sense of identity and need for differentiation
Housestyle materials help corporations to develop a strong sense of identity and to remain recognizable across different markets and regions.
The bigger the corporation the greater the 
importance given to logo and housestyle materials.
These elements and materials are often viewed as part of corporate branding strategies, and as a way to create market differentiation with the competition.
Logos and housestyle materials also help corporation to create internal sense of identity and increased employee loyalty.
The bigger the corporation, the bigger the logo and housestyle budget
Multinational corporations operating on a global scale have a multitude of customers and a big budget for branding, logo and housestyle materials.
They need to speak clearly to different nationalities, to customers with different social and economical backgrounds, to different ages and genders, to different religions and 
beliefs, etc.
The best way to do so, is to deliver uniformity: a clear and simple message. 
Logos and housestyle materials
Logos pay a relevant role in housestyle terms, since they define the design message to deliver to the outside world.
Logos are well defined visual elements, with 
particular fonts, sizes, colors and styles which help to increase corporate branding strategies and customer recognition.
Housestyle materials and logos are often part of a well planned business and corporate marketing strategy. They help corporations to achieve better goals and results, increasing their profits and customer loyalty. 
Passing on the right image, ideas and values
Most corporations look for logos and housestyle materials that can pass on a certain image, a set of ideas and values to their customers and consumers. These are some of the most used ideas and values associated to most corporations:
  • Innovation
  • Inspiration
  • Freshness
  • Modernity
  • Enthusiasm
  • Customer driven approach
  • Technology driven approach
  • Professionalism
  • Dedication
  • Friendliness
  • Care
  • Sophistication & luxury
  • etc
Good housestyle materials cannot hide poor product or poor service quality
Consumers are intelligent beings and they can decide on quality issues, independently from a corporation having a strong or weak logo and housestyle materials. 
Consumers often don't care about corporate strategies, budgets, logo and housestyle multiple uses. They care about products and services (the end result). They care about prices and images associated with those products and services.
The main focus of a corporation is to create and to deliver good products and services.
Corporations need to 
deliver intelligent and useful solutions to consumers. They also need to deliver competitive edge and product and service diversity to meet consumers needs.
Logos and housestyle materials help this process, but they don't replace it or command it alone.

Enjoy!

LPD Team

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