Chris Do sits downs with Founder and Creative Director, Yo Santosa for her perspective and insights into building brands with personality. It's a special late night edition of Unfiltered taped live in front of a studio audience. This is a must watch episode if you are a graphic designer and want to understand the secrets behind building powerful brands. Watch Yo's talk at AIGA Hecho en LA talk here: https://youtu.be/3FchyEpyKEc 5:22 What is branding and what isn't? 8:15 How to go from being just a designer to becoming a Brander? Become a Matchmaker. 10:00 How do you learn about who your customers are and turn that into messaging, colors fonts look and feel? Start with Words. 13:09 What is a Beautiful Word? 15:32 How to get a client to rebrand? 18:50 Why pay somebody if you're not going to listen to them? Credibility. 22:44 Whats the secret? How do you give brands personality? Start with a Name. 28:08 Work for a big company or have your own design studio? Freedom of the Struggle. 31:00 How did you come up with Ferroconcrete as the name of your design studio? 33:38 Is it hard being a leader? 35:06 Did you pursue any further education after design? What do you know about business, management, marketing? 36:58 Do you have any tips or advice for leading a meeting with a client? 40:54 Could you extend your principles on branding a business, to branding yourself? 43:06 Do you approach running your business like a designer or a CEO? Ferro Concrete Design: http://ferroconcrete.com Want to learn more about #Branding? Read #TheBrandGap by Marty Neumeier. Here's the digital version: http://ptgmedia.pearsoncmg.com/images/0321348109/goodies/The_Brand_Gap.pdf _________________________________________________ 🚀 Futur Accelerator The step-by-step blueprint and coaching program designed to get your creative business off the ground: https://thefutur.com/accelerator 🥇 Futur Pro The professional creative community designed to grow your personal brand, your business, and your network: https://thefutur.com/pro ✍️ Other Courses, Templates, and Tools: https://thefutur.com/shop 🎙 The Futur Podcast: https://thefutur.com/podcast Recommended books, tools, music, resources, typefaces & more: https://thefutur.com/recommendations Music by Epidemic Sound: http://share.epidemicsound.com/thefutur Shorts Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/@thefutur/shorts We love getting your letters. Send them here: The Futur c/o Chris Do 1702 Olympic Blvd. Santa Monica, CA 90404 *By making a purchase through any of our affiliate links, we receive a very small commission at no extra cost to you. This helps us on our mission to provide quality education to you. Thank you. — 🎙 Futur Podcast: https://thefutur.com/podcast/ ✍️ Futur Blog: https://thefutur.com/blog/ Jose Caballer: https://twitter.com/joseCaballer Chris Do: https://twitter.com/theChrisDo Credits: Executive Producer– Chris Do Hosts– Chris Do & Jose Caballer Director– Andrew Truong Cameraman– Aaron Szekely Producer– Aaron Szekely Editor– Aaron Szekely Musical Director– Adam Sanborne === *By making a purchase through any of our affiliate links, we receive a very small commission at no extra cost to you. This helps us on our mission to provide quality education to you. Thank you.