Ideas, interviews, and inspiration
Thoughts on branding, voice, and messaging, and Q&As with visionaries, creative powerhouses, and style makers.
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The core values of core values
How would your brand’s friends describe it? What would get it hot and bothered at Thanksgiving dinner with its extended family?
A well-tailored engagement
Would you rather work with a brand strategy agency that provides a rigid scope or crafts bespoke engagements that intuitively leave room for unexpected discoveries?
Creative Shares from Antonym
We're always looking for creative shares and inspiration. Please share what you’re reading, watching, listening to, and taking in culturally. We'd love to hear from you!
Hannah Samendinger
“The transparency is worth the risk. Being super transparent about what I can and can't do as their lawyer is essential. That's the core of my practice: being very, very open with people.”
The strategy behind brand voice
Most brands have no real strategy for executing their voice. Why?
The science of a stellar pitch deck
The process is as illuminating for founders as it is for potential investors, as elevator pitches and ideas in the ether take shape into something real.
Your well-honed brand positioning statement
Has this happened to you? You make a surprise connection in an unexpected place (the elevator, combing through Sephora, an intimate dinner party), and someone says, “Tell me about your brand.”
Language is a living force
Your audience is smart. Automating your brand identity, voice, or messaging will result in the loss of meaning. So how, when everything is changing so fast, can you maintain your brand’s grasp on humanness?
Hannah Levintova
“Talking about real people and real impact is the way to bring business stories alive.”
The formidable reason to believe
Crafting a succinct and direct yet nuanced Reason to Believe can seem like an insurmountable hill to climb.
5 ways language can revolutionize your brand
Building and maintaining a successful brand requires a particular alchemy.
Outcome vs Output
What’s the secret to effectively embedding differentiation into your positioning and messaging strategy?
Psychographics, and the great tonal shift
This moment requires sharper-than-ever messaging strategy.
Danielle Mackey
“I try to give readers a sense of the movement and the liveliness of a place through the people. People are the environment.”
Ryan Massey
“The truth is there is a grace to doing this job well. It often involves swallowing your pride and putting the artist's best interest first, always.”
Jacqueline Towers-Perkins
"I want to show a community coming together to fight for an important mission."
Carissa Justice
“I try to remind people if you're not having any fun in a branding project you're probably doing it wrong.”
Erica Glotfelty
“Honesty allows you to take risks and do interesting things, especially when moving into larger-than-life spaces.”