Where does branding end and logo design begin?

Logo Design Brand Exercise

Where does branding end and logo design begin?

Ali first approached brew in 2014 for a logo when the football purists publication was a blog (logo above). Since then, Football Purists (FP) has evolved into a podcast network and grown to over 40,000 downloads per month.

In early May 2016, the founders of Football Purists decided it was time for a logo redesign concurrent with their new site launch. After an initial brainstorming session, here is what our raw sketch files looked like:

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We hit a road-block when we realized the Founders (Ali and Amir) couldn't answer this question in 1 sentence: what do we do, how do we do it and why?

We went back to the drawing board and spent the next Saturday morning in a coffee shop doing a brand exercise inspired by Josh. Here's our favorite snippet of that morning:

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In this instance, taking one step back was the quickest way forward. We took this momentum into the next sprint, leaving us with this:

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Fast forward two more sessions, we zero-ed in on four final logos:

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This Project is still in progress.