Visual identity – Garth Dew Commercial and Documentary Filmmaker
Visual and verbal identity for a cutting edge commercial and documentary flimmaker
Project type: Visual and verbal identity
Client: Garth Dew is a commercial and documentary filmmaker from the UK
Dates: January and February 2018
Services provided: Naming, logotype, icon, colour palette, animation, strapline, copywriting.
‘Working on my rebrand with DOSE has been a great experience and I’m very happy with the end results. Gavin took the time to develop a deep understanding of me and my business and created a visual identity that allows my creative work to be the focal point and reflects my personality and vision for the future. Your visual identity is a vital part of how you are perceived by potential and existing customers and so I’d highly recommend working with Gavin at DOSE in this area’
Garth Dew, Owner, Filmmaker
Spending time in a co-working space is always interesting and often leads to unexpected advantages. On this occasion the advantage was meeting with an inspiring film maker. Garth combines a storytellers ear for a good old yarn with a directors eye for cinematography and the hands of a technician, using top quality equipment to create bespoke films and stills. We started talking about film in marketing and the end result was agreeing to work on a rebrand.
After overcoming the tricky first three years of trading Garth has honed his skills, convinced a loyal group of clients and was ready to refine his strategic direction. He needed a new visual and verbal identity to capture the new focus.
Following a very thorough brand survey and more than one long conversation about Garth’s goals we set about crafting a new visual identity that reflected the strategy, product and Garth himself. It was essential that the identity didn’t get in the way of the creative work that is Garth’s product so it had to be distinctive without shouting too loud. Not as easy as it sounds!
With Garth’s work being film and animation i.e. very visual, we chose to solve the brief with a typographic wordmark and icon to prevent any possible visual noise that an illustrated logotype and icon might produce.
We also wanted to develop an animated workmark to highlight the nature of the work Garth does. After much research, development and testing we developed a simple. strong, nononsense workmark (Bit like Garth) that collapses into the icon itself and can be animated just like this…
Workmark animation
Wordmark
Icon
Icon overlay
Icon overlay over video footage
Icon overlay and verbal branding over video footage
Capturing the brand graphically was a good challenge and capturing it verbally was equally good fun. Using and updating a well known phrase ‘Lights, Camera…’ immediately highlights the nature of Garth’s work while the adaptation ‘…Impact’, reflects the focus on sports and outdoors as well as the use of film as a marketing tool.
Finally, we worked to tailor the copywriting on Garth’s About page to bring what is actually a great brand story to life in full technicolour.
This was a really creative and inspiring project. Garth is now running with the new visual identity and we can’t wait to see how he uses it.
Visit the Garth Dew website to see some examples of great film making.
