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.