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Plus, we equip aspiring designers with the skills they need to succeed.

📓Brand or Be Forgotten
🔗 https://selar.com/brandorbeforgotten

11/10/2026

We have gotten a lot of questions lately that all point to the same thing.

Some business owners asking why people are not choosing their brand, why they feel almost hidden next to their competitors, why nothing seems to land the way they hoped it would.

So we asked a few of them directly what they had tried. We noticed a pattern that showed up almost every time. Many had looked at what their competitors were doing and copied the style, the colors, the tone, assuming that was the safe move.

And to be frank with you, it's not!

When your brand or business looks like the brand next to it (especially when it comes to visual identity), customers have no real reason to choose you over them, especially when they've been in the game and gotten familiar with their customers long before you came in.

On the other hand, they default to whichever option is cheaper, because there is nothing else to judge you on.

We put this video together for everyone who has been asking versions of the same question.

Watch it, and if it describes your brand more than you would like to admit, that is worth sitting with.

One more thing. We are planning a masterclass on Branding 101 for November, and we are building it around exactly these kinds of questions.

The waitlist link drops the first week of November, so stay close if you want to be part of it. We are building something worth your time.

Let us know your thoughts in the comments, and if this was useful, share it with someone who needs to hear it.

Your customer's satisfaction is part of the design.Yes! Your customer experiences more than the final product, and their...
07/10/2026

Your customer's satisfaction is part of the design.

Yes! Your customer experiences more than the final product, and their satisfaction is part of the design.

A beautiful final product matters, but so does the experience your customer has getting there.

Was your communication clear?
Did you keep them informed?
Did you listen to their concerns?
Did you make the process easy to understand?
Did you handle changes professionally?

Your customer does not experience your brand only through what you deliver. They also experience it through how you communicate, guide, respond and follow through.

That means customer service is not something separate from your brand.

It is part of the experience you are designing.

If you could improve one part of your customer's experience with your business, what would it be?

Consistency does not mean making everything look the same!!You see, some founders avoid consistency because they think i...
05/10/2026

Consistency does not mean making everything look the same!!

You see, some founders avoid consistency because they think it will make their brand feel repetitive.

But consistency is not about copying and pasting the same design everywhere.

It is about keeping the important parts of your brand recognisable.

Your colours can stay familiar while the layout changes.

Your voice can stay recognisable while the message changes.

Your photography can evolve while still feeling like it belongs to the same brand.

Even your campaigns can look different while still carrying the same identity.

A strong brand can change without becoming unrecognisable.

Give your brand room to evolve, but don't make people relearn who you are every time they see you.

Inside Brand or Be Forgotten We have studied and worked with brands long enough to see the same pattern. The business is...
03/10/2026

Inside Brand or Be Forgotten

We have studied and worked with brands long enough to see the same pattern. The business is good, the product is good...like really good, and somehow most of their customers or even first time users even remember their brand.

So we wrote Brand or Be Forgotten, the branding book from Phoenix Designs Studio.

It is not a collection of tips.
It is built to help you look at your brand the way a strategist would, then fix what is weak before you spend more on design, ads, or content.

If you are a founder or you run a business and your brand is on the verge of blending into the crowd, this was written for you.

✅ Grab a copy.
🔗 Link in the pinned comment.

Would you pay $50 for a logo that took ten minutes to make???Many business owners would say no. Yet many end up doing ex...
01/10/2026

Would you pay $50 for a logo that took ten minutes to make???

Many business owners would say no.
Yet many end up doing exactly that, because the rushed option is fast, cheap, and sitting right in front of them.

Now here is the problem. A logo on its own is not a brand identity. A real visual identity is a set of pieces that work together, so your business looks and feels the same everywhere a customer meets it.

If you are paying for brand identity design, this is what you should expect to receive:

📌 A primary logo mark with a clear idea behind it.

📌 Wordmark and icon variations, so your logo fits a profile picture, a website header, an invoice, and a shop sign.

📌 A color palette chosen for a reason, not because someone liked the shade.

📌 Typography that stays the same from your website to your social media.

📌 Real mockups, so you can see the identity on packaging, cards, and screens before you commit.

📌 A plan for where the brand needs to be in a year, not just that very week.

If your designer sends one file and calls the job done, you have bought a logo, not an identity.
The gap shows up later, when your price feels too high and you cannot work out why.

At Phoenix Designs Studio, we build brand identities with the long term in mind.

The Perch AI Identity Did Not Look Like This on the First TryPerch AI is an AI tool that sits in on meetings and work co...
17/09/2026

The Perch AI Identity Did Not Look Like This on the First Try

Perch AI is an AI tool that sits in on meetings and work conversations, and quietly keeps track of what was agreed and what is still open.
When someone comes back after time away, they see exactly where things stopped, without asking anyone to catch them up. That is the whole product in one sentence, and it shaped every decision we made building the identity around it.

We did not land on the current look right away. An earlier direction leaned lighter, sage green on cream, warm and quiet.

Once we held it up against what the brand is actually promising, weight, memory, a decision that never gets lost, it read as too soft for the job.

We rebuilt the palette around a deep moss green and near black, and let a lighter sage work as a glow rather than a flat color.

The logo went through its own process too. It starts from the letter P, rounded and duplicated eight times around a center point.

The gaps between those letters formed arrowhead shapes on their own, and once we flipped their direction to point clockwise, the mark started saying something specific: forward motion, order, nothing lost along the way.

The full case study, including every stage of that process, is on Behance now.

Link 🔗 in the comment section.


Perch AI Brand Identity RevealPerch AI is a software product built around a very specific kind of workplace pain. And th...
09/09/2026

Perch AI Brand Identity Reveal

Perch AI is a software product built around a very specific kind of workplace pain. And that pain is the time a team loses re-explaining itself. Someone comes back from leave, misses a meeting, or picks up a colleague's task, and the whole team stops to catch that one person up again. Perch AI exists so that never has to happen.

We are currently building the full brand identity for Perch AI, and what you are seeing here is the visual identity in motion, the logo, the color direction, and a set of real-world mockups showing how the brand will actually look and feel once it is out in the world.

This is not the full case study yet. Over the next 24 to 48 hours, we will share the actual thinking behind the logo, why the mark looks the way it does, why we chose this particular color direction, and the reasoning that shaped every decision you see here. We want our audience to see the process, not just the finished picture.

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We have spent a lot of time here talking about strategy, positioning, the thinking that sits behind a brand before anyon...
07/09/2026

We have spent a lot of time here talking about strategy, positioning, the thinking that sits behind a brand before anyone ever sees it.

That part matters and we will keep saying so. But we have not given enough attention to the other half of the work...

And that's "what people actually see!"

Think about the last time you walked past two shops selling almost the same thing. One had a sign that looked rushed, packaging that did not match the walls, colors that seemed to fight each other. The other looked like someone had thought through every corner of it, down to the door handle and the receipt paper. You did not read either shop's mission statement.

You did not know their story.
You felt something, and that feeling decided which one you trusted, maybe even which one you walked into.

That feeling is not random. Most of a person's first impression of a brand comes from what they see, before they read a single word of copy. A consistent color palette on its own can make people recognize a brand much faster than an inconsistent one.

Brands that stay visually consistent across their platforms tend to see real increases in revenue, not just a nicer looking page. People openly admit they will walk away from a brand whose logo looks careless, even when the product itself is good.

So visuals are not the pretty designs on top of strategy. They are the part of the strategy people are actually allowed to see and feel. If that part is weak, nobody gets close enough to experience the thinking behind it at all.

This is something we take seriously at Phoenix Designs Studio, and something we have not said enough.

Brand identity design is what people know us for. But we also build graphic design, digital identity design, UX and UI design, and full web design, all shaped to carry a brand's thinking into something people can actually see and feel.

If your business has the thinking sorted out but the visuals are not carrying it, that gap is probably costing you more than you realize.

✉️ Send us a message if you want to talk about it.

How Do I Stand Out From Competitors??You stand out by choosing one strength and committing to it completely, instead of ...
06/09/2026

How Do I Stand Out From Competitors??

You stand out by choosing one strength and committing to it completely, instead of trying to be good at everything. That single decision does more for a brand than any amount of extra features or services ever will.

A lot of business owners assume standing out means adding more... more features, more products, more of this and more of that. Research from Lippincott found that only five percent of brands are considered unique by their own customers, and that includes companies spending heavily on marketing every year. Trying to compete on everything usually means being remarkable at nothing.

Here is the part that actually moves numbers. Brands seen as both different and meaningful to their audience grow revenue about five times faster than brands that are not. Different alone is a gimmick. Meaningful alone is forgettable. You need one strength that is genuinely yours and genuinely matters to the people you serve.

This is the exact thinking we work through with clients before a single design decision gets made.

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Why Do Big Brands Still Advertise??It's because they understand that being known once is not the same as staying chosen....
05/09/2026

Why Do Big Brands Still Advertise??

It's because they understand that being known once is not the same as staying chosen. Visibility is not a one-time achievement, it is a habit brands cannot afford to break, and the moment a brand goes quiet, someone else quietly moves into the space it left behind.

Here is a number that surprises most people: even in the United States, Coca-Cola's biggest market on earth, roughly forty five percent of households still do not regularly drink it. So Coca-Cola is not advertising to remind people it exists. It is advertising to reach the millions who still are not choosing it yet, and to make sure the ones who already do, keep doing it out of habit, not just memory.

Nike does the same thing. Adidas does the same thing. Not because people forgot what a Nike shoe looks like, but because a large chunk of consumers are not loyal to one brand at all. They wear Nike some days and Adidas other days. They drink Coke sometimes and Pepsi other times. Advertising is not aimed only at strangers who have never heard of you. It is aimed at the undecided middle, the customers still choosing between you and your competitor every single time they shop.

There is even a theory researchers at the University of Chicago call "memory jamming." The idea is simple: people are not lacking information about Coca-Cola, everyone already knows what is inside the can. What they are lacking is a reason for that brand to stay at the top of their mind at the exact moment they feel thirsty. Advertising is not there to teach. It is there to remind, repeatedly, until the brand becomes the automatic choice.

The lesson for smaller businesses is simple. If billion dollar brands, brands everyone already recognizes, still refuse to go quiet, your business definitely cannot afford to either. Visibility is not something you achieve once and move on from. It is something you have to keep earning, over and over, or someone else will happily take the space you left empty.

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