brand design

Alloyfish brand development. {Part 2}

The form of a fish was stripped down to create a simple geometric form based on three dissected squares. The different parts and colours satisfy the requirement for the likeness different parts to make up an alloy. The following image shows the basic transition from concept ideas towards the final graphic.

Alloyfish brand development. {Part 1}

I get asked about this fairly often so I thought that I would write a little bit about why we chose to use Alloyfish as a name for our company. When looking for company names, we literally had hundreds of ideas, and also we decided that we wanted www.ourname .com if possible to give a professional and established feel, and also buy .co.uk equivalents. We played with a variety of names which were rejected for various reasons, the names which met the domain name criteria and had 'something extra' reached a later

Good is not good enough

"Every success is built on the ability to do better than good enough", or so the saying goes; and as sayings go that one will go far.  Good enough was only good enough when you were the only game in town and that town only had one horse.  Even then, good enough was never really very good. Today's world demands excellence.  Every sector can be neatly divided between excellence which generally has the lion's share of the market, and good enough which bumbles along just about making ends meet.  Gone are the days in which you could sell good-enough at the price of excellence based upon a lack of competition.  Welcome to the global marketplace where there is competition for everything, and your competition may well be paying just pence an hour.  Good, cheap and fast; pick any one to target as a market advantage, so long as it's not cheap.