Brand Designer

Brand Designer

A brand designer is responsible for creating the visual elements that make up a brand's identity. This includes designing logos, typography, color palettes, and other visual assets that represent the brand and communicate its values and message. Brand designers work closely with brand strategists and other creative professionals to ensure that all brand materials are cohesive and consistent. They may also be involved in developing style guides, creating marketing materials, and working on packaging design. A strong brand design can help a company stand out in the market and build a lasting relationship with its customers.


What they love about their jobs

Creative professionals talk about their favorite parts of their day.

Sarah Louise Kinsella
“I love being able to solve clients’ problems with their current brand identity.”
Sarah Louise Kinsella
Brand Designer at Louise Agency
Sam Ryan
“I love being able to create and challenge brands. Good design has a big impact on brands, businesses, and people.”
Sam Ryan
Brand Designer at Alpha Digital
Kenzie Mahoskey
“I love illustrating and I get to do it at work everyday!”
Kenzie Mahoskey
Brand Designer at F5
Tony Siminerio
“Advertising is an outlet for my natural instinct to solve problems. I see the world through 'how could things could be better than they currently are?'.”
Tony Siminerio
Creative Director

Where this is needed

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Fashion
Style is always evolving, and the industry doesn’t just need apparel and footwear designers. Magazine editors, writers, photoshoot producers, and many more roles are in demand.
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Beauty
Beauty and cosmetics live and breathe branding, and the industry needs creative leaders to make interesting, distinctive designs, campaigns and identities that connect with a wide range of customers.
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Social Media
The big social media companies employ thousands of creatives to build better experiences for users, strategize how to evolve their platforms, program better tools, and much more.
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Marketing
The key to marketing is clear and persuasive storytelling, and that means writing, design, digital experiences, photography and a lot more that goes into bringing a brand’s value to its customers convincingly.
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Food & Beverage
It’s more than making things taste good; there’s brand-building, packaging design and advertising of all kinds in this massive global industry.
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Health & Fitness
Health is a fast-growing and ever-evolving industry requiring creative minds to push the limit of digital experiences, apparel design, tech innovation, editorial planning and more.

Skills to thrive in this field

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Detail-oriented
Provide undivided attention to others’ actions and information
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Design Thinking
Able to think through designs in a user-centered and strategic way
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Presentation/Pitching
Able to speak confidently to convey ideas
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Collaboration
Work well with a team, including designers, developers, and other creatives

Commonly used tools

Adobe Illustrator
Adobe Illustrator
Vector graphics design software
Figma
Figma
A cloud-based collaborative design platform
Sketch
Sketch
Graphic design tool to help create vector graphics
Asana
Asana
Work management tool for teams to plan, organize and manage their work
Airtable
Airtable
Airtable is a cloud-based collaborative database platform
Monday.com
Monday.com
A project management tool
Slack
Slack
A communication platform for teams that enables real-time messaging, file sharing, and collaboration
Zoom
Zoom
A video conferencing platform that allows users to meet and collaborate remotely
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