Design Centric Branding Agency in Sri Lanka

Don't Just Blend In, Stand Out.

A strong brand identity is the key to unlocking your business’s full potential. Imagine capturing the hearts and minds of your target audience, leaving a lasting impression that sets you apart from the competition.

This is what we can help you achieve for your business.

What can we do for you?

We believe in the power of a unique yet simple approach to connect brands with people at a glance.

We design brands for digital and physical environments, keeping adaptability in mind and ensuring your brand looks great and is easily identifiable on any platform. 

Our cohesive brand identity toolkit, backed by competition analysis and market research, helps your brand stand out and make a lasting impression.

What Are Central and Distinctive Brands?

Prominent brands, such as Apple in the tech industry and McDonald’s in the fast food sector, are the epitome of their respective categories. 

They serve as benchmarks for comparison and significantly influence consumer preferences, pricing, and product innovation. 

Meanwhile, distinctive brands like Tesla in the automobile industry and Liquid Death, a brand of non-alcoholic beverage that primarily sells water, differentiate themselves and avoid direct competition with these leading brands.

Popular Brands of the world in 2024

C-D MAPS

WHAT YOU
MUST KNOW

Achieving the right balance between centrality and distinctiveness is crucial as it influences brand perception, sales volume, pricing, and profitability. Traditionally, marketers lacked tools to balance these aspects effectively, relying on separate analyses for brand positioning and business performance.

The C-D map is a new approach that directly links a brand’s perceptual position with business outcomes like sales and price. This tool helps managers determine market positions, allocate resources, track performance, and evaluate strategy over time, showing that centrality and distinctiveness can be pursued simultaneously.

Creating a C-D map involves identifying the market and customer segments, conducting surveys to gather data on consumers’ perceptions of a brand’s centrality and distinctiveness, and plotting this data on a 2×2 matrix. The map also captures market performance, with bubble sizes proportional to sales volume, price, or other metrics.

In both the car and beer markets, higher centrality correlates with greater sales volume. For instance, Toyota and Budweiser, the most central brands in their categories, had the highest sales volumes. Conversely, higher distinctiveness correlates with lower sales volumes but allows brands to charge premium prices, as seen with Porsche and Guinness.

What Are the Strategic Implications
for Each Quadrant on the C-D Map?

Aspirational Brands

(High Centrality & Distinctiveness)

These brands enjoy high sales volumes and premium pricing. They must balance maintaining distinctiveness while appealing to a broad audience.

Mainstream Brands

(High Centrality, Low Distinctiveness)

These brands enjoy high sales volumes and premium pricing. They must balance maintaining distinctiveness while appealing to a broad audience.

Peripheral Brands

(Low Centrality & Distinctiveness)

These brands often follow a “me too” strategy, attracting lower-priced consumers. They may need help to shift their positioning but can survive with low marketing costs.

Unconventional Brands

(Low Centrality, High Distinctiveness)

These niche brands must ensure profitability at low volumes or aim to become more central to increase sales without losing their unique appeal.

How To Know Where Your Brand Is Today?

Brands can strategically move their position to exploit less crowded market territory or grow sales. 

Take Tesla, an unconventional brand that is constantly adapting its position to gain a more central market share, inspiring other peripheral brands to consider a more mainstream approach.

Companies can use the C-D map to ensure their investment in brand strategy pays off by evaluating a brand’s strategic position, assessing the risks and rewards of shifting it and monitoring progress.

Measure the effectiveness of marketing strategies by linking consumer perceptions to business performance.

Identify actual competitors based on consumers’ mental representations of the category.

Measure the effectiveness of marketing strategies by linking consumer perceptions to business performance.

Visualize differences in consumer perceptions and performance across markets to set realistic goals and decide on standardization versus localization.

Monitor how marketing initiatives affect consumer perceptions and brand performance over time.

THE PROCESS

What is Our Unique Approach
to Brand Identity Development?

Audience Analysis

We start by understanding your target audience, their needs, preferences, and behaviors.

Personality and Communication Study

We delve into your brand’s personality and communication style to ensure consistency.

Brand Positioning and Personality

We strategically position your brand in the market, highlighting its unique personality.

Identity Development

We create a cohesive brand identity, including logos, color palettes, and typography.

Deployment of the Brand Identity

We ensure your brand identity is effectively deployed across all platforms and mediums.

BRAND ADAPTABILITY

How Do We Tailor Solutions for Both Digital and Tangible Environments?

While some companies have achieved remarkable success with minimal branding, a well-crafted logo and name are just the foundation of a strong brand.

Your brand identity must be adaptable to various platforms, especially digital media. Hence, our designs maintain integrity and visual appeal across all mediums, ensuring consistent brand representation. Train your team with HypeX!

HypeX Logo Usage

How Do We Ensure Quality Control and Production Standards?

Attention to detail is our hallmark. 

Our commitment to perfection in brand identity creation is unwavering. From selecting the right paper stock to suggesting the best printing and laminating methods, we ensure every element is crafted to the highest standard. 

We work with vendors who provide quality assurance processes, including extensive guidelines on color rendition, unique treatments like UV varnishing and embossing, and more.

What is Our Project Timeline
for Brand Identity Development?

Transparency and keeping you informed are vital principles at HypeX Digital. Here’s a detailed timeline of what to expect

1

Project Kick-off

We start with a brand identity development questionnaire to gather initial project details. We can talk about these over coffee or email, whichever works best for you.

2

Initial Presentation

We present various logo options and identity materials, including audience analysis, personality study, brand positioning, color palettes, and much more.

3

Select preferred Option

Let us know your choice within a week of the presentation where we will submit a comprehensive plan with 3 mood boards for you to select from.

4

Preparation and Handover of Brand Guideline Book

We prepare a comprehensive brand guideline book covering all aspects of your brand, from logo usage to color palettes and typography.

5

Preparation and Handover of Collateral Designs

Finally, we hand over all the collateral designs ready for use. This typically takes about four weeks after the details are approved.

What does HypeX Mean?

If you are looking to find out what our logo means and brand’s core values, the below button will take you right to it.

Happy exploring!