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How to Keep Your Visuals On-Brand

How to Keep Your Visuals On-Brand

By: Lidia Varesco Racoma
Owner of Lidia Varesco Design

Are your organization’s visuals on-brand or have they slowly started to derail?

Between working with multiple team members and outside vendors—plus the popularity of image creation apps like Canva and Adobe Spark—brand visuals can start to become diluted over time.

But fear not, you can maintain successful brand consistency by doing some simple planning and preparation.

Why Your Nonprofit Needs Brand Guidelines

Why Your Nonprofit Needs Brand Guidelines

By: Lidia Varesco Art Director & Designer, Lidia Varesco Design I work with many nonprofits in Chicago, and one of the reasons they choose to work with me is because they need help bringing consistency to their branding and marketing materials. For an established organization (or even a new one), branding can start to become diluted over time, with marketing materials using multiple versions of logos, colors and images that are not on-brand, and messaging that is not targeted or audience-focused. This is where brand guidelines can make a big impact. What are brand guidelines? Brand guidelines (also sometimes called...

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