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Realign your brand with consumer lifestyles and cultural relevance to refine and refocus its true value.
We deliver semiotic insights, design trends, and visual guidelines to inspire your stakeholders and wow your consumers.
Personify your brand with dynamic, unique, and intriguing names that capture consumer desires and bring them to life.
Color studies for product, packaging, and overall brand image from now to 3-5 years out.
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Many brands struggle to align marketing and design with consumer needs. We develop robust brand positioning visual guidelines, supported by cultural trends and consumer qualitative research, to powerfully focus these strategic goals. When your brand’s visual language is in sync with its story, you’re empowered by informed decisions that send product sales soaring.
Marketing and design teams often do not have actionable consumer insights and inspirational brand guidelines, which can lead to ambiguity and inefficiency in the development process. Having these details, on the other hand, focuses alignment between your strategic and creative teams.
Our process ends the frustration and subjective decision-making that can block progress or needlessly extend development timelines. And here's how to start:
Our team meets your team (hello!)
We draft a proposal and discuss
Together we kick off the next stage in your brand journey
Toniq has been serving the greatest brands in the world since 1999, helping them align their vision and communications to send their success and sales soaring. We’d love to share in your vision too.
Prior to founding Toniq in 1999, Cheryl worked in the worlds of cultural trends, brand strategy, and design. Building from her background in anthropology, sociology, and cultural study, she pioneered several methods for understanding the inner workings of brands and how to bring them to life in a meaningful manner for consumers – namely, visual positioning, brand semiotics, and symbolic projection research. She launched Toniq in 1999 to bring these disciplines together “under one roof” to solve brand reinvention, naming, and semiotic issues for companies like Gillette, Pepsi, Pepsi-Lipton, Colgate-Palmolive, Traditional Medicinals, and many more. Her passion is brand reinvention, and she loves working to solve marketers’ issues in ways that truly connect people to their brands.
Having worked as Creative Director for several online brands, Craig joined Toniq soon after its founding to bring an added dimension of discovery to its methodologies and accelerated creativity to its output. Craig’s wide-ranging creativity brings beyond-the-box thinking to strategic territories and an aesthetic understanding to semiotic insights. While brilliant in design, he also has a background in dramatic writing, music composition and performance, and theatre, which all help translate strategy into creative guideposts agencies use to bring a brand to life. Craig pioneered Toniq’s naming process, which is a bespoke, human-driven (vs. AI driven) process for getting the right name fit for each client. His clients have included Gillette, Church & Dwight, Dunhill Watches, Nestle, Taylor-Made Golf, and many more.
