Fast Branding Workshop: Create a Complete Visual Identity in Hours
A course by Mars KerrGraphic Designer
A course by Mars Kerr, Graphic Designer
Fast branding workshop to design a full visual identity using moodboards, color palettes, typography, logos, AI tools
Design a complete visual identity in just a few hours with a practical fast branding workflow. In this course, you will learn how to translate a branding brief into a cohesive mini brand identity using design tools, AI assistants, and efficient decision making.
You will start by building a strategic mood board in Kittl and defining the creative direction for a fictional brand, Sunwave Supply. Then you will create a minimal color palette with Coolors, develop a clear typographic system using Fontjoy and Google Fonts, and design a simple, versatile logo in Affinity. Along the way, you will use ChatGPT to refine brand statements, generate concept ideas, and support your creative process.
By the end, you will assemble everything into a compact, presentation-ready brand kit that includes logo, color palette, typography, visual references, and a brand statement. This fast branding methodology is ideal for graphic design, logo design, brand strategy, personal branding, client proposals, and practice projects, and it can be adapted to Illustrator, Photoshop, Figma, or other design software.
What will you learn in this online course?
6 lessons & 5 downloads
Building a Minimal, Effective Colour Palette
6 minutes, 30 seconds
Building a Typographic System
8 minutes, 8 seconds
Quick Logo Creation
8 minutes, 16 seconds
Exporting and Expanding Your Mini Brand Kit
10 minutes, 55 seconds
What's included in this course?
Learn a complete, repeatable workflow for building a mini visual identity from a real brief, moving from moodboard and creative direction to a polished brand kit. Discover how to capture a clear visual personality, choose cohesive references, define style guidelines, and keep every decision aligned with strategy rather than guesswork.
Practice building minimal color palettes with Coolors, creating flexible typographic systems with Fontjoy and Google Fonts, and designing a simple but distinctive logo in Affinity. Explore practical uses of Kittl for inspiration boards and ChatGPT for taglines, concepts, and prompts. Finish with a concise, presentation-ready brand kit that includes logo, palette, type styles, brand statement, and example layouts you can adapt for future projects.
Recommended software & tools for this course
Who is this online course for?
Graphic or brand designers seeking a faster identity workflow, freelancers with tight client deadlines, design students practicing full branding projects, creators or entrepreneurs shaping their own visual identity using practical methods plus modern tools including AI.
Requirements and materials
No extensive experience required only basic design awareness, a computer with internet access, comfort using any layout software similar to Affinity, plus access to Kittl, Coolors, Fontjoy, Google Fonts, ChatGPT or equivalent tools.
Reviews
- 5 months ago
curso para aprender rapido
- 7 months ago
Curso rápido pero descubrí algunas herramientas muy interesantes
- 7 months ago
Excelent course for beginners, with up to date apps for graphic design. Very easy to follow with great results!
Through a practical, systems-focused approach, Mars teaches how to structure offers, communicate value clearly, and build efficient creative workflows that support long-term growth. Their work combines strategy, creativity, and execution, empowering creatives to turn ideas into viable, well-positioned online projects.
Content
Fast Branding Workshop: Create a Complete Visual Identity in Hours
- Introduction and What Fast Branding Really Means
- Build Moodboard and Define Creative Direction
- Building a Minimal, Effective Colour Palette
- Building a Typographic System
- Quick Logo Creation
- Exporting and Expanding Your Mini Brand Kit
- Final project
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FAQs
Yes, this course is designed for beginners and walks you through each step of creating a mini brand identity using accessible tools and clear workflows.
You’ll need access to Kittle, Affinity Designer, ChatGPT, Coolors, FontJoy, and Google Fonts. A computer with internet access and basic design software installation capabilities is also required.
You’ll learn how to build mood boards, generate color palettes, choose and pair fonts, design logos, and assemble a cohesive mini brand kit using modern digital and AI-powered tools.
Kittle lets you gather, organize, and export inspiration images to build a visual mood board that sets the style direction for your brand identity.
You can extract colors from your mood board, use color pickers and generators, lock colors, and organize palettes in Affinity. Export your palette using hex codes for consistent application.
ChatGPT can quickly summarize design briefs, generate creative directions, and suggest mood board search terms to speed up the brand creation process.
Yes, the course covers designing simple, versatile badge logos and retro-style logos optimized for social media and other digital platforms.