Learn about Branding

Every successful business needs a branding strategy. Learn how to brand your business or even create a personal brand in these free branding tutorials.

Getting started with Branding

  • How to design a new brand visual identity for your business

    How to design a new brand visual identity for your business

    Grace Fussell
  • How to start a freelance business and create a profitable brand

    How to start a freelance business and create a profitable brand

    Julia Melymbrose
  • What is a brand ambassador? (Tips + real-life examples)

    What is a brand ambassador? (Tips + real-life examples)

    Brenda Barron
  • All Branding content:

    1. New Course: Designing and Building a Brand

      New Course: Designing and Building a Brand

      Tutorial Beginner

      In our new course, Designing and Building a Brand, you’ll learn how to create visual brands from scratch and develop your brand designs into professional,...

    2. Online Brand Development: 7 Web-Savvy Steps to Growing Your Business

      Online Brand Development: 7 Web-Savvy Steps to Growing Your Business

      Tutorial Intermediate

      As a web-savvy small business owner, you probably know that online brand development can play a crucial role in the success of your business. Follow these...

    3. How to Create a Logo

      How to Create a Logo

      Tutorial Beginner

      Designing a logo from scratch can seem like a daunting task. In this article I’ll walk you through the process of creating memorable, unique and distinctive...

    4. How to Create a Brand Guidelines Document in Adobe InDesign

      How to Create a Brand Guidelines Document in Adobe InDesign

      Tutorial Beginner

      Branding is the visual glue that holds a company or organization together. In this tutorial I’ll take you through the steps of how I created a simple Brand...

    5. Create a Branded Business Card for Team Awesome!

      Create a Branded Business Card for Team Awesome!

      Tutorial Beginner

      As part of our Branding Team Awesome series, I’ll be showing you how to create a simple yet high-impact business card, using Roberlan Borges’s fantastic logo...

    6. A Talky-Talk with JS Chen (陈佳生) From G’Day

      A Talky-Talk with JS Chen (陈佳生) From G’Day

      Tutorial Beginner

      I recently sat down for an interview with the Creative Lead at one of China’s new-wave design firms.

    7. Setting Up a Hosted Email Solution With Microsoft Office 365

      Setting Up a Hosted Email Solution With Microsoft Office 365

      Tutorial Beginner

      Last time in our series Setting Up Your Business Online Without Coding, I showed you how to set up a hosted email service with Google Apps, providing you...

    8. Setting Up a Hosted Email Solution With Google Apps

      Setting Up a Hosted Email Solution With Google Apps

      Tutorial Beginner

      Anyone who uses the internet on a regular basis will have an email address of some sort, with many of us using free email services such as Google Mail,...

    9. Maintain a Consistent Style Across a Series of Vector Portraits in Illustrator

      Maintain a Consistent Style Across a Series of Vector Portraits in Illustrator

      Tutorial Advanced

      When I'm not working on Vectortuts+, the majority of my clients come to me for multiple portraits. It can be a scary prospect, especially if you find keeping...

    10. Create a Coffee Cup Mock Up in Adobe Illustrator Using the 3D Revolve Effect

      Create a Coffee Cup Mock Up in Adobe Illustrator Using the 3D Revolve Effect

      Tutorial Beginner

      Adobe Illustrator's 3D effects can be a used to create quick, yet realistic product mock-ups. While not a full ray-tracing 3D application, Illustrator's 3D...

    11. Creating a Coffee House Logo - From Theory to Vector in Adobe Illustrator

      Creating a Coffee House Logo - From Theory to Vector in Adobe Illustrator

      Tutorial Beginner

      With this tutorial I will provide tips to think about when creating a logo. Also I'll cover some basic manipulation of the Star Tool as well as how to adjust...

    12. How to Create a Detailed Flag Stand Illustration in Adobe Illustrator

      How to Create a Detailed Flag Stand Illustration in Adobe Illustrator

      Tutorial Intermediate

      In the following steps you will learn how to create a detailed flag stand illustration in Adobe Illustrator. We'll start with the pole. Using basic tools and...