Category: Before & After

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How to Choose the Best Color for Your Brand

by Sam R.

Choosing a brand color can go in many directions. You can play it safe, or blow it out of the water. Ultimately, though, a business is about promoting and selling goods and services to customers. A brand is about the marketplace.[…]

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What It Takes to Design an Office Space that Shows, Not Tells

by Marstudio Inc.

“Why not dream big?”

We help our clients dream big every day, so when we began designing our new space in Rockville Town Center, we took that question to heart. Our state-of-the-art facility has a personality that you can feel when you walk in the door.[…]

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The Making of “A Spring in South Langland” Book Cover

by Sam R.

Even though we have all heard the expression “don’t judge a book by its cover,” we were smart enough to know that everyone does anyway. With this knowledge in hand, we knew what our first step was when author Barry Thomas came to us looking to give his book A Spring in South Langland new life.[…]

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6 Steps to Rebrand a Product for Selling Online

by Sam R.

Our client, Gemnique, came to us last year looking to rebrand the company. The unique gem wholesaler had been selling their products on Amazon, but they wanted to make their brand compelling enough to sell directly to the consumer through their own website.[…]

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VIDEO: The Making of Marstudio’s New Headquarters in Rockville, MD

by Marstudio Inc.

Marstudio, Inc. recently moved into a strategic new location at Rockville Metro Plaza in the heart of Montgomery County, Maryland. Because so much creative design went into the construction, environmental design, and interior elements of our workspace, Marstudio’s Corporate Film &[…]

Marstudio Blog Before After

A New Look for the Marstudio Blog

by Sam R.

A wonderful thing about creative industries is that you always keep learning. At Marstudio we’ve realized that with every project we take on, our knowledge base increases, and we want to share what we’ve learned with the world.

To do so in the best possible way,[…]

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UBER’s Quiet Rebrand Makes App Icon Harder to Spot

by Sam R.

Sometimes companies rebrand themselves with a lot of hoopla and fanfare – as Yahoo did, and the end result was a huge disappointment. So there is merit in doing a rebrand quietly, and that is what UBER opted for.[…]

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Best Brand Re-Designs of 2015

by Marstudio Inc.

It takes a lot to overall haul a company’s design identity—and even more to make sure it’s an effective re-design. In Brand New’s The Best and Worst Identities of 2015, Part 2: The Best Reviewed they take side-by-side comparison of some of the best company re-designs and explain what it is that makes them work so well.[…]

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Worst Brand Re-Designs of 2015

by Marstudio Inc.

Despite starting a complete brand re-design project with the best intentions, overhauling a company’s identity can result in complete disaster. In Brand New’s The Best and Worst Identities of 2015, Part 3: The Worst Reviewed they take a look at where 2015 re-designs fell completely flat.[…]