All posts by Carol Wiley

Consistency Infers Trustworthiness


Perception is important. Research shows that consistent branded visuals can substantially increase your visibility and trustworthiness.

Logo Design — Before and After
Energy Feeds International is a leading provider of feed supplements to the dairy industry. An inhouse branding strategy led them to change the NAME and VISUAL LOGO for several of their key products. The design goal was CONSISTENCY and to keep their existing color palette for each product, but create a "product family" to reinforce the high recognition factor of the Magna name. Here are the logos, before and after the design update.   Updating the packaging with the new logo was simple because the color scheme remained the same. Did you know...research shows visual consistency is the #1 element that instills trust with your customers? This also rings true for customer service and quality control.
MagnaBlend feed bag with new logo
Website Design Success
Energy Feeds International's website designed by WileyDesign and Six Degrees Studio several years ago is still performing very nicely for them. Check it out here  

My Logo Closet #3


Revealing more images from my logo closet—drawer #3.
Telling the client's story through images... These logo concepts were shelved in exchange for another more delineative concept, but I thought they were worth showing. Contact WileyDesign if you are interested in a logo design for your company.      
For a mattress store
   
Sleep Naturally. Wake Up Refreshed.
     
Science and Nutrition—Naturally
   
Good communication is the foundation for success
   

These logo concepts are the property of WileyDesign. Modifications of the concepts are available for purchase.

My Logo Closet #2


Revealing more images from my logo closet—drawer #2.
Constant noodling to get it right for the client... these concepts have been left behind for another more suitable logo. Contact WileyDesign if you are interested in a logo design for your company.  
Women reaching their leadership potential
   
Collaboration, alignment, networking
   
Top of the Line
     
Above amazing, greatness
       
Unleashing Greatness

These logo concepts are the property of WileyDesign. Modifications of the concepts are available for purchase.

Apocalyptic Underground of WWI


WileyDesign creates logo for doctor, artist and explorer: Jeff Gusky
Photography exhibit now on display at the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum

Hidden in France’s forests, mountains and underground lies a vast apocalyptic landscape… a Pompeii of modern mass destruction that enables us to see and to feel the origins of modern terror.  WWI was a disaster of incomprehensible, inhuman scale.

Watch ABC News video interview

Dallas emergency physician, artist and explorer, Jeff Gusky, was the first person to be allowed to photograph the underground artifacts. The area was not widely known about, and sits on private property. His fine art photos are now on display at the Air and Space Museum at the Smithsonian and were also featured along with an article in National Geographic Magazine.

Jeff’s mission as an explorer and artist is identical to his mission as an emergency physician: to help people in crisis find hope and the courage to face imminent danger . . . and then chart a path through that danger to safety. He strives to inspire belief in the future by encouraging people to ask questions about modern life we’ve forgotten how to ask, and by teaching people to see how the scale of modern life and technology undermine conscience and numb the self-protective instincts so critical to staying safe in a time of terror. He encourages people to rediscover their moral compass in modern life by getting comfortable again with just being human and embracing imperfection that is human nature itself.

Jeff is on a citizen’s journey to discover hope and resolve in the face of modern dehumanization.

WileyDesign just completed Jeff's logo (shown above) and is developing the business collateral for his speaking and filming engagements.

My Logo Closet #1


Dear Logo Concepts: It's time to come out of the closet. I've been ignoring you over the past decade! It might be nervy to expose you since, well... you have been forgotten for years, but I still love you. I know, it's true, another more suitable concept was developed for the client and you were (sadly) left in the closet untaken. But let's brush off the dust and take another look, starting with closet drawer #1.

Helping small businesses achieve unforgettably excellent customer service.
 
Reminding us of the influence we have over others.
 
Speaking about the future of communications.
 
For a psychologist/film buff.
 
How do you describe Infinite Intelligence? Something like this?
 

These concepts are the property of WileyDesign. Modifications of the graphics are available for purchase.

The Quintessential Spell Check


img_2454Have you noticed what spell check does with those non words….(like website addresses and email addresses)?   It can be quite fun to pay attention to them. For cwileydesign I get quintessential, quantization…. and a few other q-words.  Why Q words, I wonder? must be the cw combo.  No matter, I happen to LOVE that cwileydesign stands for quintessential in spell check land.   How cool. Better yet, WileyDesign translates to Wilderness, with options for Wildebeest, and Wildness.   Nice! And last but not least, www.cwileydesign.com has one option, and that is one-worldism.   Yep, I’m not kidding.