Building a Brand Book: When, Why, & How with Josh Silverman

how to develop, disseminate, and use brand guidelines.

Building a Brand Book: When, Why, & How
  • 11 video lessons
  • 3 hours and 33 minutes of class content
  • Streaming access on desktop and mobile browsers
  • 100% satisfaction guarantee
The brand guide is the roadmap for employees and ensures consistency across the company. Josh will help you create a brand book that is comprehensive, actionable, and easy to use in Building a Brand Book: When, Why, & How. 
Josh is a veteran branding professional and in this class he’ll show how to create complete brand guidelines and adhere to them. 
You’ll learn: 
  • What a brand guide is and how to use it 
  • Components of a brand guide and how to create your own 
  • How large and small businesses apply brand guidelines 
Whether you are a designer working with clients, a solopreneur, a small business owner, or working on branding in-house, Building a BrandBook: When, Why, & How with Josh Silverman will help you develop a better understanding of branding and how to develop guidelines everyone can use.

Course Instructor

Josh Silverman

Josh Silverman

Josh Silverman is a designer, serial entrepreneur, and eternal optimist. Currently, he is the Founder & CEO of Startnership, a business that helps startups grow by delivering design and marketing tools for a fixed fee and on a fixed timeline.
  • David . Dec 23, 2019

    This class has potential, but misses the mark for me. The first thing that I noticed was the fact that the video and the sound do not sync with each other. It feels like you are watching a foreign move with English dubbed over the lip movements of another language. It is often hard to hear the audience questions as they do not hand around the usual 'creative live wireless audience microphone' and I think that was a mistake. The topic is a good one and the speaker is appears to understand his craft but a lot of the 'talk' in the first few videos could be removed by a clear definition of terms in the very very beginning of the class. If feels like it is flowing on an off the cuff manner and is lacking the structure that Creative Live known for. Instead of spending so much time asking the students about their understanding of what brand identity is and way to many quotes... I would like to see some practical how to advice early on in the class. I would love to see more classes covering this topic from people like Sean Adams or Alina Wheeler :) I am sure this class will get better the further I get into it and I normally do not write a review before I have listened to the entire class. Also I purchased it at a deeply discounted rate so even with those issues factored it is is still work what I payed for it. :)

  • Julie K. Nov 26, 2019

    Uh, I can't really say this is good info. I'm a solo business owner creative and I'm so interested in building my brand (its critical always) but this class didn't work at all. The jargon is kind of too much, just being honest. Not that I can't understand it, but really, just be real. I have a background in marketing at the masters level and I've worked at large corporations, but yikes this was just too disjointed for me to get anything I can use out of it, sorry to say.

  • YI J. Dec 9, 2017

    WOW, really worth the money, information is real, up to date, the quality of audient also good, they ask really real question, not those kind of 'performance' course. Thanks!

  • Tarek B. Sep 29, 2017

    Solid lessons. Thanks a lot.

  • Lorenzo F. Jun 24, 2016

    Absolutely relevant and interesting content, made through example classes. The way the material is exposed is very good. One single critic, since the headline is really precise on the topic I expected more on the "how" but the course doesn't really teach a "system" to create a brandbook, like choosing wich documents are to be included and how to make and expose them depending with the client needs. The course is all about the why explained through case studies, which is good but partly neglect the headline promise. Anyway this is still an excellent course but I thought it would be useful to point out this aspect.

  • L. Oct 27, 2015

    Great course !!!

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