Such Firm need a strong corporate identity to reflect their professionalism because they do not produce anything and their corporate identity is the only way for them to show their seriousness towards the clients. Corporate identity is more than just a logo applied to promotional material.

In these awesome examples we will focus on the logos, brochures and guidelines. Discover how they use colors, shapes and the material to make their company recognizable right away.

The following picks are excellent examples of what corporate identity design can be and should be!

J&N

Sapientia

 Lipani & Partners

Lakiluotsit

 Anthony Delaney Lawyers

Muranov, Chernyakov & Partners

Kamerbeek Advocaten

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Citroën – France

I was amazed from the radical design change that Citroën made recently. Citroën is really trying to make trends and take luxury objects styles to the car design. The new DS4 is one of the best examples.

Brown is back! Look at this brownish color with a pattern repeating and the DS4 logo merged into the pattern. It looks stylish, elegant fashionable, sophisticated and modern.

This car is a city car and in the background there is a city by nearly night. Giving those beautiful red colors. The car in contrast is white and shiny. The parking is empty to get the emphasis on the car.

This photo could be in the morning in the heart of an empty city. Again this brownish color produces a really sophisticated design. Looking back in time I cannot remember brown cars that get this luxury feeling.

Up front, the leather dashboard is borrowed from the DS4 small sister the C4, but the whole interior acquires exclusive materials and finishes. Door handles include a DS logo and leather seat squabs, inspired shaped by watchstraps.

Example of watchstraps
The general impression I got is that this brochure really looks professional, with a good choice of fonts, colors and proportions.

Mini – United Kingdom (Germany too)

First just watch the picture. In the foreground the 4 minis in a city (city car) in the background mountains, which means escape from the city and have fun in country-laning roads.
Now look at the 4 positions of the minis. The green car that is a kind of a break shows his backside so you directly see it is a break. The same goes for the convertible that is slightly turned to the right. It is also red to attract attention and it is the opposite color in the color spectrum of green. The third one is the classic one, black so that the red one shines better because a convertible is a symbol of freedom. Finally the fourth car is blue again to attract the eye, as it is also a new model. As you may guess it is really turned to the right in order to show 2 doors (family) and higher (feeling of secureness)

First time I see rain in a car brochure and it looks amazing.

Mini at night, flashy neon colors, people making party on sidewalk. With a Mini you are an attraction at night, you do not have to hide your car because your are “in”.

The Countryman shows that it is capable of an escapade in the mountains. The picture is balanced, as on the left as well as on the right there is white. Left the sky and right the car.

Audi – Germany

Audi is typical example of German perfectionism. The first page of the brochures reveals the pace. The brochure is pure, clean, professional, perfect proportions and straight to the point. Audi is written in red and the wall near the sidewalk too. Repeating the red color and gives a dynamic to the picture. The rest of the picture is grayish and bluish, which gives a perception of professionalism and pureness.

Cubic shapes, modern architecture, still a round bowl in contrast to the straight but rounded shapes of the car. Red garage door evokes passion and it is also contrasting the blue color of the house entrance. A mix of sportiveness and a secureness which is important for families.

Simple picture explaining how the open sky works, with a textual explanation at the right with 3 additional pictures. Always this clean, rigid and professional design.

Fiat – Italy

2 cars the 500 and the 500c, c for convertible. It reminds me a bit of the yin yang, the front window (nearly black at the top of white car) and the same front window at the bottom of red car. Again Fiat logo is red such as the 500c. Good choice of colors.

Fiat 500 are happy and different cars. A bit like the Mini but the Mini is more “serious” and “perfect (German inside)” opposed to the more round forms of the fiat which evokes more fun and happiness.

Wife is walking with the dog and man just taking a sunbath and relaxing in the car. Nobody around this place and the city (=stress) is far away.

Here we see that both cars are also night cars, to make party and be stylish. The mini is subtler in this game. Italians are more direct people

Vivid colors showing that with this car you will be happy. It is a fun car.

Conclusion

Every car is different and suits different needs, which is normal. You could now compare this brochure to websites and discover similarities. Colors, shapes, contrast and proportion are different depending on what feeling we want to give. Feelings are what we see most on these brochures. Cars are bought on emotion not rational decisions. Web-design should also evoke feelings, not only the product itself. Product pages should be more adapted to the product, so the user can imagine how cool it would be to use that product.

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Written Tutorials

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65 Video Tutorials

Here below you will find 65 video tutorial that explain nearly all the basics that you need to program an app for iPhone. This is really an amazing resource to learn Objective C.

Setting up Xcode

Explaining the Program

Variables

Interface

Implementation

Creating an Object

Creating Multiple Objects

Accessing Instance Variables

Data Types and Other Stuff

int and float Conversions

Type Casting and Assignment Operators

Intro to Looping

scanf and increment operators

Nested for Loops

while Loops

do Statements

if else

Useful if else Program

Nested if Statements

else if Statements

switch

Conditional Operator

Seperating Files

Running the New Program

Synthesized Accessor Methods

How young of a chick can I date?

But what if I’m a millionaire?

Inheritance

My Mom

Starting the Rectangle Class

Finishing the Rectangle Class

OMG, a Square Class?!

Making steve the Square

Creating a Point class

Enhancing the Rectangle class

Running the Brand New Point Program

Overriding Methods

New Instance Variables and Abstract Classes

Introduction to Polymorphism

Running a Polymorphic Program

Dynamic Binding and id

Error / Exception Handling

Directives for Controlling Scope

External / Global Variables

Static Variables

Enumerated Data Types

Enum Program

Categories

#define Statement

#import Statement

Introduction to Number Objects

Number Object Methods

String Objects

Substrings and Ranges

Mutable Strings

Finishing Mutable Strings

Introduction to Arrays

Mutable Arrays

Dictionary Objects

Working with Files

Copy and Rename Files

Working with File Attributes

Deleting and Printing Files

Working with Directories

Read and Write Files

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Title <Title></Title>- Very important!

As you may know most search engines use a maximum of 60 characters for the title, thats why your domain name should be at the end of your page title. Most important keywords must be first and the remaining characters (if left) can be used to your company name. Here is an example of a solid page title that includes the company name:

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Meta Description <Meta> - People often forget it

The Meta description is a summary of your article. A good summary will make the user want to click it! A strong combination of Title and Meta Description is the key to SEO. Think of it as: Call to action

Meta Keywords

Unfortunately Meta keywords became useless. As they were used for spam, they are no longer considered as a ranking signal. Google and (Microsoft) Bing don’t even use them for their ranking.

Headings <h1>

When you open a newspaper you search for catching headlines (headings) in your article is should not be different. Headings should take you attention and should be related to you article. Make good use of headings <h1> and subheadings <h2>(<h3><h4>) as they structure your document and help indexing.

Text decoration <b><i>

Putting a word in italic or bold shows that it has a special meaning or an important meaning. The same is for good SEO when you make a word bold it will get a higher value. Do not put whole sentences as this won’t bring anything. You only quote sentences.

Finding the right Keywords

The first step is to brainstorm about your subject and make a list of keywords. Take some time and write down everything that comes to your head! You should be able to have a list of 50 keywords without much trouble.

After this delete the one that are not pertinent. Now with your pertinent list go to the following websites and search for the pertinence of you keywords and maybe you will get new keywords and delete some as they may not get searched.

Google AdWords Keyword Tool

WordTracker

Keyword Discovery

Avoid Single-Word Keywords

Many people start their searches with single word-keywords only to find that the results are not targeted for their specific need. So single-word queries will produce the highest volume of searches, but also the lowest amount of targeted traffic. People will then go back to refine their searches with keyword combinations! It is common that they try multiple times with different keywords.

Target Multi-Keyword Phrases

Raw numbers show that single word terms often get more queries than multiple word phrases for the reasons shown above. However, people after one word search tend to use two- and three-word search queries to get more pertinent results. So focus on multi-word keywords it will be more rewarding!

Here you can find one of the best PDFs for understanding the process of keyword research and keyword selection.

Link Building – very important!

Link building is very important if you focus on google search, for bing it is less important. Here is a quick guide to get high quality link building:

• Build trust and authority with high quality content.
• Make a good hierarchy in your website so that related content is linked.
• Build trust and authority by acquiring links from trusted sites that have similar content.
• Build relationships. Network with other bloggers. They are also likely to have similar content and they will probably help you if you ask them nicely.

Social Media – Facebook, Twitter, …

Using social media like facebook and twitter can give you trust, authority and traffic. An article that gets a lot of buzz will help your SEO and you will get more followers. More follower means more link building and relationship with other bloggers. Just think of this because it is a really powerful and everything is connected.

Reminder: SEO Visual Guide

Some people are more visual to understand something and here is a brief but very good tutorial/guide to SEO.

Complete visual SEO guide

Conclusion

The techniques presented in this article should give a boost in your search engine optimization. Most of them are simple to use but really rewarding. We also recommend you to come back and read the article or see the visual guide once in a while so that you do not forget this simple guide.

Useful Links

Complete List of Best SEO-Tools

7 Common Website Redesign Mistakes

Wikipedia Search engine optimization

In these awesome examples we will focus on the logos, packagings and guidelines. Discover how they use colors, shapes and the material to make their company recognizable right away.

The following picks are excellent examples of what corporate identity design can be and should be!

Autentika Corporate Identity

by Jakub Rutkowski

AVIVO Corporate Identity

by Denis Olenik

Avivo is an interactive company based in Slovenia. Among services is IT production for next generation multimedia application based on Silverlight, WPF and mobile applications.

Dimitrovi & Co. Corporate identity

by Kliment Kalchev

Founded in the early 90 in the city of Pleven and focused on delivering heavy machinery services (excavators, bulldozers and heavy trucks) Dimitrovi & Co. is now one of the largest construction companies in North Bulgaria.

Chempaq Corporate identity

by Muggie Ramadani

Chempaq was formed in 2001 by our Founder Ulrik Larsen based on his idea to redefine the hematology test by creating a single use self contained cassette module.

Valens – engergy drink Corporate identity

by Maxime Quoilin

The idea of Valens is to create an energy drink brand with a healthier and more luxurious image.

Amova Corporate identity

by Roger Oddone

A very good concept done by Roger Oddone.

Viva ambiental Corporate identity

by Roger Oddone

Active in the area of Environmental Engineering and in urban sanitation.

source: behance.net

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