Something for marketers and designers to remember: “You’re not an artist. You solve problems.” At Fishman Marketing, we design lots of marketing campaigns and websites. These days, most of the work, even the branding work, starts off as a website…
Initials aren’t helpful. Words are. Names are. We know that for many professional-services firms (e.g. law, accounting, consulting, etc.), using initials is simply a necessary compromise — a less-controversial way to abbreviate the firm’s name. You get to shorten a cumbersome…
Building signage – should we put our name on our building? I haven’t seen any statistics on this, but as a dedicated branding guy, I pay an unhealthy amount of attention to this particular issue and have analyzed this issue…
What does this sign say? Some designers try too hard to be clever. They miss the point–they’re not creating art. Design is a tool to help a company sell something. Many designers get so caught up in being fancy artistes that their…
I have mentioned previously my dislike of logos with big initials or unnecessary marks. When we’re redesigning a logo as part of a branding or marketing campaign, we try to emphasize the firm’s colloquial “street” name, i.e. the thing everyone…
Hollow puffery is easy. Marketing with evidence is effective. [A brand and website overhaul for a 300-win trial law firm.] The Howard Law Group is a national business and civil litigation firm, handling some of the nation’s biggest, ugliest, and most-complicated bet-the-company…
How can smaller law firms market themselves? We recently wrote about Hawley Troxell, Idaho’s largest law firm, and the split-image campaign that showed that not only were they big, they were also fast and flexible. All true. But what if…
A great logo is extraordinarily difficult to design. A logo is fundamentally a tiny piece of art. Simultaneously beautiful and persuasive, logos (sometimes called “brands”) can convey a sense of strength or creativity. They can reinforce a firm’s name or…
I LOVE this card. As you might know from my historic blog posts, I’m often very critical of law firm e-cards — there are so many ways firms can get them wrong. They’re too long, too dull, too cliche’d. They’re…
Most lawyers recognize the importance of Diversity. Strict homogeneity can lead to an equally homogenous approach or outlook. When applied to client representations, creativity can be stifled. Innovative solutions can be overlooked. But we also know that in real life, Diversity can…
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