Marlot Company Limited is a company in the sector household services. It is a new company where the owners, and also the clients, felt that the company was in need of a distinct platform where they could communicate with their current and prospective customers. The assignment was to create a platform consisting of a graphic profile and a Wordpress site for the company. The graphic profile's task was to distinctly profile the company in the market, and visualizing the conceptions that the company wants to be associated with. The purpose of the Wordpress site was to create a showcase for Marlot towards their customers, and thecompany itself could manage after completion. These two products have been created with the help of a pilot study which included an analysis in which the competitors in the market has been scanned, and reports of the household services sector has been studied. The result is an appealing and modern graphical profile that stands out in the sector household services, and a Wordpress site where the company can communicate with their market in a distinct and appealing manner.

Föreliggande undersökning genomförs i samarbete med uppdragsgivaren och HR-företaget Dala HR Partner. Syftet med undersökningen är att ta reda på hur logotyp och grafisk profil bör se ut för att på bästa sätt förmedla företagets mål och värderingar, seriös, kompetent, effektiv och trygg. En visuell innehållsanalys utfördes med syftet att få en bättre förståelse för hur andra HR-företag profilerar sig. Semi-strukturerade intervjuer utfördes med Dala HR Partners målgrupp samt en kompletterande enkätundersökning med personer med erfarenhet inom grafisk design för att få åsikter både från lekmän och yrkeserfarna. De olika materialinsamlingsmetoderna gav oss bra underlag till framtagningen av logotyp och grafisk profil som på bästa sätt skulle förmedla Dala HR Partners mål och värderingar, samt uppfylla de komponenter som utgör en fullständig grafisk identitet. Från undersökningen har det framgått att det är viktigt med en tanke bakom det visuella materialet för att egenskaperna ska förmedlas på bästa sätt. Valet av exempelvis färg och form har betydelse i hur företagets värderingar kommuniceras. Resultat av den slutgiltiga logotypen och grafiska profilen visar att de i stor utsträckning förmedlar Dala HR Partners värderingar och mål, seriös, kompetent, effektiv och trygg, vilket var målet med den här undersökningen och vårt examensarbete. / This survey is conducted in collaborati on with the client and HR company Dala HR Partner. The purpose of the survey is to find out how the logo and graphic profile should be designed to best convey the company's goals and values, serious, competent, efficient and safe. A visual content analysis was performed with the aim to get a better understanding of how other HR companies graphic profiles look like. Semistructured interviews were conducted with Dala HR Partners target audience and a complementary survey of people with experience in graphic design to get opinions both from laymen and experienced professionals. The different data collection methods gave us good basis for the development of the logo and graphic identity that would best convey Dala HR Partners goals and values, and comply with the components that make up a complete graphic identity. From the survey, it has emerged that it is important with an idea to the visual material for the properties to be conveyed in the best way. The choice of, for example, color and shape are important in how the company values are communicated. Results of the final logo and graphic profile shows that they largely conveys Dala HR Partners values and goals, serious, competent, efficient and safe, which was the goal of this study and our thesis.

Syfte: Vi vill ta reda på vad som gör ett varumärke i modebranschenstarkt, samt hur ett företag bör agera för att åstadkomma det.Metod: Vi har använt oss av en kvalitativ ansats och har genom sjupersonliga intervjuer samlat in vårt empiriska material. Genom enabduktiv metod har vi undersökt om empiri och teoriöverensstämmer. Vi har sedan utgått från vår frågeställning ochfört en diskussion.Slutsatser: För att skapa ett starkt varumärke inom modebranschen är detviktigt att vara konsekvent i sitt uttryck. Produkten ochvarumärkesidentiteten måste samspela, även då produkten förnyas,och identiteten måste vara tydlig för konsumenten att minnas.Företagen kan påverka konsumenten genom kommunikation, ochPR har en betydande roll för hur varumärket presenteras i media.Den grafiska identiteten blir varumärkets kostym utåt och ensymbol för densamma. För att skapa ett starkt modevarumärke börvarumärket och produkten vara i linje med varandra och konstantförändras tillsammans.Purpose: We want to find out what makes a fashionbrand strong and how abusiness should act to achive that.Method: We have used a qualitative approach and have collected ourempiric data through seven personal interviews. We havecompared our empirical material with our theoretical materialthrough an abduktiv method, and through our questionframe wehave come to our conclusionsConclusions: To create a strong fashion brand the company needs to beconsistent in all communication. The product has to be coherentwith the brand identity, and because of the fast pased fashionmarket and constant renewal of collections, the positioning of thebrand needs to be obvious to the consumer. The brand can reachit’s customers through media communication, hence theimportance of PR. The graphic identity is the key to instantrecognition of a brand, and should also be in line with thecompanys product. To create a strong fashion brand, the productand the brand needs to be in line, and consistantly changingtogether. / Program: Textilekonomutbildningen

The degree project has been implemented abroad in Brisbane, Australia. A literature study has beenperformed parallel to the practical work within the subject »Corporate identity through graphicaldesign«. In this study deeper research has been made concerning the establishment and manifestationof a corporate identity and its program. The knowledge given from this study has been put into practicethrough two larger projects.The first project was carried out at De Pasquale, advertising agency in Brisbane, where a corporateidentity program was designed for a new company. The company is a fitness centre, called KnockoutFitness, which specializes in different types of boxing training sessions such as Boxing, Thai Bow andBoxercise but also Aqua aerobics. They needed a full corporate identity program including a logotype,business card, letter paper-paper and address labels.The second project was carried out at Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane. A promotioncampaign was designed for the Department of Visual Arts, which included two information folders andone advertisement. The purpose of the campaign was to promote both the undergraduate and postgraduatecourses offered within the department.

I dagens medievardag blir rörlig bild allt mer vanligt. Fler satsar på att använda video och för de som producerar film blir det därför alltmer viktigt att kunna särskilja sig från sina konkurrenter med en visuell identitet. Föreliggande rapport har utförts i samarbete med Rockmotion Film HB, ett bolag som producerar filmer främst till kunder inom musik och nöjesverksamhet. Sedan starten har Rockmotion Film saknat en komplett visuell identitet vilket är nödvändigt för att upplevas som seriösa. Syftet med studien har varit att skapa en ny visuell identitet och redesigna befintlig logotyp baserat på Rockmotion Films kärnvärden och vision. Studien inleddes med en semistrukturerad intervju med vår samarbetspartner för att ta reda på nödvändig information om företaget. Vidare gjordes en visuell innehållsanalys för att få en uppfattning om konkurrenternas visuella identiteter. Genom enkätundersökningar och fokusgrupp har framtaget material testats för att få fram ett slutgiltigt förslag. Resultatet av detta examenarbete är en enkel och tilltalande visuell identitet som överensstämmer med de framtagna kärnvärdena, personligt, ungdomligt och professionalitet samt vår samarbetspartners vision kring den visuella identiteten. / The use of moving pictures has become far more common. Since more people use moving pictures it has become more important for film producers to distinguish themselves from their competitors with a visual identity. This study has been conducted in collaboration with Rockmotion Film HB, a company specialized in making videos for music and entertainment businesses. Since the beginning Rockmotion Film have been missing a complete visual identity which for a company is necessary to be seen as serious. The purpose with this study was to create a new visual identity and redesign the existing logotype based on Rockmotion Film’s core values and vision. The study began with a semi-structured interview with the company to gather necessary information about the company. In addition, a visual content analysis was made to gain perception of the competitors' visual identities. Through surveys and a focus group, the produced material has been tested to obtain a final suggestion. The result of this thesis is a simple and catching visual identity that complies with the core values, personal, youthful and professional as well as the client's vision of the visual identity.

Föreliggande undersökning genomförs i samarbete med uppdragsgivare och floristföretaget BlomAnn’s Buketter och Binderier AB. Syftet med undersökningen är att få den visuella identiteten att uppfattas som enhetlig samt förmedla företagets värdeord, flexibilitet, originalitet och miljö. I undersökningen ska en logotyp samt grafisk profil tas fram som resulterar i en visuell identitet till BlomAnn’s. En visuell innehållsanalys genomfördes med syfte att fastställa hur andra floristföretag profilerar sig. En enkätundersökning genomfördes på företagets målgrupp för att få åsikter om den framtagna visuella identiteten. Genom en framtagen fokusgrupp kunde ytterligare åsikter om den visuella identiteten behandlas. De olika materialinsamlingsmetoderna gav underlag till framtagningen av den visuella identiteten som på bästa sätt skulle förmedla BlomAnn’s värdeord. Från undersökningen har det framgått att det är viktigt att förmedla ett företags värdeord genom det visuella materialet. Valet av färg, typografi, form och val av kanaler har betydelse i hur företags värderingar kommuniceras till målgruppen. Den slutgiltiga visuella identiteten är enhetlig i alla kanaler och den förmedlar även BlomAnn’s värdeord, flexibilitet, originalitet och miljö, vilket var målet med undersökningen. / This survey is conducted in collaboration on the client and the Florist company BlomAnn's Buketter och Binderier AB. The purpose of the survey is to make the brand consistent and convey the company's values, flexibility, originality and environment. In the survey, a logo and graphic profile will be created that results in a visual identity to BlomAnn's. A visual content analysis was conducted with the purpose of determining how other florist companies are profiling. A survey was conducted with the company's target group to gain views on the visual identity. Through a focus group, further views on the visual identity could be seen. The different data collection methods provided the basis for the development of the visual identity that would best convey BlomAnn's values. From the survey it has been found that it is important to convey a company's values through the visual material. The choice of color, typography, shape and choice of channels is important in communicating company values to the audience. The definitive visual identity shows consistency and it also communicates BlomAnn's values, flexibility, originality and environment, which was the target of the survey.

It becomes increasingly more difficult to stand out among the personal sites on the internet today and to become the one who actually gets remembered in the crowd. To be remembered, you need to have a useful website but also a creative appearance added to it. In this practical thesis I have focused on how a website should look like according to users and then added a creative look to the user-friendly website. The purpose of the study is to find out how to connect a useful website with a creative appearance. In order to do that, I first had to find out what users actually want. I used a survey in which I have asked questions about how a website should look like. Using the results of the survey I created prototypes and appearance sketches that I used in user tests. I used the results from the user test and created the final website that represents what users in this study believe is a useful website. To connect the useful website with a creative appearance, I created a short video clip of six seconds to loop on the website's front page. The welcome note describing the site's purpose is reached by means of an arrow, and therefore not directly visible when you enter the site. I have with this created a depth and a creative design solution to the website and thanks to the movement it got more interesting.

Usability and User Experience are two important aspects in the design and develop-ment of software systems and websites. One part of this is the visual design, or aesthetics,of the system i.e., how does the product look to the user?In this study, it was investigated if adapting a website to a graphic profile would in-crease the overall user experience, and if changes to the visual design would affect howother areas of usability were experienced. The system that was studied was the web in-terface of a documentation server that was used by software developers at Toyota MaterialHandling Manufacturing Sweden AB (TMHMS) in Mjölby. To evaluate the research ques-tions, two surveys based on the User Experience Questionnaire (UEQ) were conducted. Thefirst survey was done before making changes to the website and the second survey after, asto be able to compare the experience of the users. Changes to the website, such as changingfonts and colors, were made in accordance to the graphic profile of TMHMS and the resultsshowed that the overall experience of using the website improved after these changes. Theresults also showed that aesthetic improvements had a positive impact on the perceivedusability of other areas. The results are consistent with previous studies made and pro-vides a good stepping stone for continued research into how visual design and consistentthemes may affect the user experience of websites and systems.

<p>The strategy when you change the visual part of the brand identity is often referred to as Corporate rebranding and is seen as a good way to show that a company has undergone a change. Despite high risks and high costs, this strategy has become more common and there are companies today who make the choice to change an already well-known graphic profile. This phenomenon is what underlies this essay’s problem statement: Why does a company with an already well-known graphic profile choose to change it and how does the process behind the change occur? In what way have the company’s customers recognized the change and how has the company’s image changed in this context? The purpose of this essay is therefore to explore the process that occurs when a company in the sport and fashion industry changes its visual identity and to explore how the company’s customers have perceived the change.</p><p>To fulfil the purpose of the essay a case study was carried out on a company’s Corporate rebranding process. The company that was chosen was the Swedish sports retail chain Stadium Sweden AB who decided to change its graphic profile even though their logo was one of the two most recognized in their field. With the help of existing theories on brands and Corporate rebranding two interviews and a survey was conducted for this study.</p><p>After this case study we have come to the following conclusions; The reason for the brand change was primarily the need to modernize the graphic profile in context of a larger reorganization of the company. The process can be described in four main phases: Initiation phase, Planning phase, Development phase and Launch and implementation phase. The study also showed that most of the customers had noticed the change and that the company’s image had changed for the better as they managed to maintain the core values of the brand while making it more contemporary and unique.</p><p>We have also come up with three propositions that can be used in future research on this subject: 1. A reason for a brand change might be that the old graphic profile needs to be modernized to practically suit new media, 2. The choice of the Phase in/Phase out strategy is controlled by the availability of various resources and 3. To distance the brand from its heritage doesn’t need to be a pitfall for a brand change.</p>

The strategy when you change the visual part of the brand identity is often referred to as Corporate rebranding and is seen as a good way to show that a company has undergone a change. Despite high risks and high costs, this strategy has become more common and there are companies today who make the choice to change an already well-known graphic profile. This phenomenon is what underlies this essay’s problem statement: Why does a company with an already well-known graphic profile choose to change it and how does the process behind the change occur? In what way have the company’s customers recognized the change and how has the company’s image changed in this context? The purpose of this essay is therefore to explore the process that occurs when a company in the sport and fashion industry changes its visual identity and to explore how the company’s customers have perceived the change. To fulfil the purpose of the essay a case study was carried out on a company’s Corporate rebranding process. The company that was chosen was the Swedish sports retail chain Stadium Sweden AB who decided to change its graphic profile even though their logo was one of the two most recognized in their field. With the help of existing theories on brands and Corporate rebranding two interviews and a survey was conducted for this study. After this case study we have come to the following conclusions; The reason for the brand change was primarily the need to modernize the graphic profile in context of a larger reorganization of the company. The process can be described in four main phases: Initiation phase, Planning phase, Development phase and Launch and implementation phase. The study also showed that most of the customers had noticed the change and that the company’s image had changed for the better as they managed to maintain the core values of the brand while making it more contemporary and unique. We have also come up with three propositions that can be used in future research on this subject: 1. A reason for a brand change might be that the old graphic profile needs to be modernized to practically suit new media, 2. The choice of the Phase in/Phase out strategy is controlled by the availability of various resources and 3. To distance the brand from its heritage doesn’t need to be a pitfall for a brand change.