David Helps

brand strategy menu

brand-building for sustained growth & stronger emotional connection

Mission & purpose
Clarify the real reason your brand should exist

Mission
Define your mission, convert it to action

Purpose
Define your brand purpose, to communicate to
internal & external audiences

Essence & architecture
Capture & organise your brand components

Esssence
Get to the essence of your brand
Summarise for internal & agency guidance

Architecture
Organise brands, ranges and/or products
Ensure business benefit(s), test with consumers

Truth & personality
Define your brand difference & how you show up in the world

Truth
Uncover or re-frame your brand truth

Personality
Amplify your difference with look & feel, words & actions

Assets and guidelines
Give others the tools and advice to help make your brand fly

Assets
Define & capture key brand assetts
Refine & craft for on-line & offline

Guidelines
Create guidelines for usage
Online, living reference for markets to deploy

design menu

Design thinking is baked in. Not so much a service, more like what you get as standard when working with me on anything. I’m a trained product designer, with over 35 years experience of applying design-led thinking across global & local brands. I can help to advise, plan and direct design workstreams – moving effortlessly between the visual, digital, tactile & experiential

Creative Strategy
The creative magic that delivers to the strategic logic

Brand Experience
Go beyond awareness, recognition & transaction

Visual Identity
Be coherent & consistent on-line & offline

Design-led thinking
People-first, needs-based, function & seduction

Creative problem solving
Use creativity to solve business and marketing challenges