11 Oct 2018

Today is the second day of the Navratri, the nine nights of festivities that will culminate in Dussehra - the triumph of good over evil. We continue to look at how a colour influences brand perceptions Wear yellow today! Bring on the sunshine, the cheer, the joyous spirit! Yellow is the colour of optimism, of hope, of confidence. As sure as sunrise, yellow stands for positivity. He...

10 Oct 2018

It’s upon us once again: the festive season. With the start of the Navratri – the Nine Nights of the Divine Feminine. It matters not whether you celebrate it or not, there is a so much ‘singing and dancing’ around this one that you simply cannot ignore it. This year we start the day one of this festival with the colour blue! For everything that blue represents, it's the most used colo...

21 Sep 2017

Today is the first day of the Navratri, the nine nights of festivities that will culminate in Dussehra - the triumph of good over evil. Wear yellow today! Bring on the sunshine, the cheer, the joyous spirit! Yellow is the colour of optimism, of hope, of confidence. As sure as sunrise, yellow stands for positivity. Here are some examples of how well yellow is used in logos. T...

20 Sep 2017

It’s upon us once again: the festive season. With the start of the Navratri – the Nine Nights of the Divine Feminine. It matters not whether you celebrate it or not, there is a so much ‘singing and dancing’ around this one that you simply cannot ignore it. What has fascinated me about this festival over the last couple of years is the plethora of information that is available around i...

26 Jun 2017

Business or Brand? What’s more important? You're a start-up! You have a great idea, some willing partners and (fortunately) adequate funding. Now on to business. As business trickles in and you grow (maybe slowly) and as the demands in your business grow and you are burning the candle at both ends you realise that if you do that much extra - you will do that much more business. And...

22 Jun 2017

  Jeremy Bullmore once said: "People build brands as birds build nests, from scraps and straws we chance upon." This quote by Jeremy Bullmore was never truer than today. Indeed with media more fragmented than ever before and attention spans reducing to nanoseconds, it's even a wonder there exists something called brand loyalty. Truly, scraps and straws are lining brand nests th...