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“It was like you midwifed us!”
One of the best compliments I’ve ever?received.
The inaugural Brand Hack?launched on Sunday April 1, 2012. The idea for The Brand Hack began in the early days of Ad Hoc when Ars Magna and Thinkside shared space with the folks at?Quilted?and?Rough Mountain Film & Media.
Like an extreme make over, a team of designers and developers came together to volunteer a full day to fully rebrand an emerging organization. We were connected with One Degree by?Boston World Partnerships. ?One Degree operates as a community resource broker and leverages cultural and technological advancements?like user reviews, social networking, and big data?to make social services more effective.
Jay Sun, of EnCandle and a?connector?at Boston World Partnerships, and Ben Spear of Thinkside began the day with a positioning and branding conversation with founders of One Degree; Rey Faustino and Karla Monterroso and their most recent addition Phan Huynh. I took the role of project manager, and of course photographer. ?I also ended up sharing copywriting duties.
Ben lead a team of designers to build a brand promise that considered the following:?One Degree is a start up and needs to secure financial investment.?One Degree needs to build a user base, comprised of both social service end-users and the community leaders. ?The data that One Degree will generate will guide philanthropic giving. You can read about the specifics of meeting the design challenge on Thinkside’s blog.
Once the identity was created and received client approval, the design team then got straight to work on the collateral:?a brochure in PDF and print form, business cards, a one page web presence, HTML email template and a branded Power Point template. The development team took over and worked on making it all live, aiming for a 6pm deadline.
Collaborative work happens all the time in coworking spaces. Pieces of the One Degree Brand Hack team have worked together in various other capacities. However, The Brand Hack allowed us to work even more transparently than usual. To collaborate across an entire project, to see it from start to finish. ?The clients stayed with us throughout the process and we were able to make decisions rapidly and responsively.
Karla, Rey and Phan were thrilled with the results.
Our next Brand Hack in scheduled for June 1, 2012. ?We are looking to work with an emerging organization that is ready for a complete rebrand. ?If you?d like to suggest a worthy?organization,?send us an email. To stay on top of our projects and?activities, ?follow us at@TheBrandHack.
