Brand & Web Design · 2024
Brand Identity & Website
A complete brand built from scratch for a small business: logo, visual identity system, and the website that brought it all online.
- Branding
- Logo Design
- Web Design
- HTML/CSS
- Figma
- Role
- Brand Design · Web Design · Build
- Timeline
- 2024 · ~6 weeks
The problem
A new venture needed to exist visually: no name treatment, no logo, no colors, no website, and a very small budget. Everything a customer would see had to be created from zero and feel coherent across print and digital.
The approach
I treated the brand as a system, not a set of one-off assets. Starting from the venture's values I developed the logo, a palette and typography scale, and usage rules, then designed and built the website as the first real application of that system, making sure every screen felt like the brand.
How it works
- 01
Discovery
Defined the venture's positioning, audience and tone, and collected visual references to align expectations before designing anything.
- 02
Identity
Designed the logo and built the identity system around it: color palette, typography, spacing and usage guidelines.
- 03
Web design
Translated the identity into a responsive website layout, prototyped and iterated with the owner.
- 04
Build & launch
Implemented the site with clean HTML/CSS, optimized images and shipped it to production.
Stack
- Design
- Figma
- Identity
- Logo · palette · type system
- Frontend
- HTML / CSS
- Deliverables
- Brand guidelines + live site
What I learned
- Constraints from a real client sharpen design decisions far more than unlimited creative freedom.
- A brand is a system of rules, not a logo. Consistency is what makes it feel professional.
- Designing and building the same site teaches you what is actually feasible on both sides.
Outcome
- The venture launched with a complete, coherent identity across logo, collateral and web.
- The owner can produce new materials independently by following the brand guidelines.
- This project is why my data work ships with dashboards people actually want to look at.