How important is a logo to your business?
How does it represent you and your company?
How can I find a good designer to create my logo and brand identity?
What other things are involved in branding?

Beth Bacon (Zoyo Branding), Corianton Hale (Zoyo Branbing), Michael Ellsworth (Dumb Eyes) and Nate Manny (51 Eggs) will come answer all your burning questions about branding!

Zoyo Branding is a Seattle-area company that helps organizations define, articulate, and visualize their brand identities. We look at companies’ current attributes and future goals and synthesize them into functional, concrete brands. The principal at Zoyo Branding is Beth Bacon whose clients have included some of today’s brand leaders including Apple Computer and Procter and Gamble. Beth a graduate of Harvard University (magna cum laude in Literature) and has a Master’s in Media Ecology from NYU. She recently returned from a year-long, 50-state trip in an RV. The designer at Zoyo Branding is Corianton Hale, whose work has been featured in six years worth of Print Magazine’s Regional Design Annual, as well as multiple graphic design anthologies in the USA and overseas. In addition to six years at the Seattle arts weekly The Stranger, Corianton has worked in France and the United Kingdom, and left his position as the Stranger's Art Director in 2006 to focus on his freelance career.

Dumb Eyes is a full service design studio that assists everyone from individuals to corporations in differentiating themselves from their competition.

As a creative team, Dumb Eyes excels at bringing their unique talents to bear on all projects. From branding to creating dynamic web applications to developing entire marketing campaigns, each project undertaken by Dumb Eyes is treated as an original work of art, and is executed with the attention and creativity it deserves.

51 Eggs is a boutique branding and design firm dedicated to creating meaningful and intimate relationships between brands and their customers. As strong believers in a holistic approach to branding and big-picture thinking, 51 Eggs sees a brand as an intricate web of ideas, images, and messaging all interwoven and working together to create a larger whole that is the experience a person has with a brand.

Over the last ten years, Design Director Nate Manny has worked with brands big and small, ranging from Microsoft, Starbucks, Sephora, Smart Balance, Sony Records, to local Seattle restaurants and bars like Havana, and The Saint. Nate believes that design should be beautiful, but that design is not an end unto itself, and he strives to bring meaning and value to all the work that he creates.

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