December 23, 2010

Santa: the brand

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This may be a little “insider” for some people but if you have even a passing interest in marketing you should appreciate the jokes.

Brand guidelines are produced by marketing/ad agencies when they’ve done a re-brand for a company. As well as including information on how the logo should be used, they also contain information on official fonts, colours and an analysis of what the ‘brand’ means.

So, is Santa a brand? London-based agency Quietroom obviously thinks so. And this talented bunch of people has produced the requisite set of guidelines. Click here to download the PDF (88kb in size).