Discussing Design & Branding with Yolanda Santosa

Discussing Design & Branding with Yolanda Santosa

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https://dna-awakening.org/8427dft Best Price Ambien Online Yolanda ‘Yo’ Santosa is an Indonesian born designer, who lives in Los Angeles, California. Since she was a kid, a lot of subjects have failed to interest her, except for art. After graduated from Art Center in 2000, she began working at yU+co designing main titles for projects like 300, Desperate Housewives and Ugly Betty. She realized that she couldn’t ignore her curiosity in branding, and she finally founded Ferroconcrete in 2006. Pinkberry was her first client, and she got involved in managing all brand and marketing strategies. Throughout her career, she has earned several awards, including 3 consecutive Emmy nominations.

The following is our (quick) email conversation regarding branding and design. envi

Ambien Tablets Online Let’s start with a quick question about you. How do you ‘brand’ yourself?

Yolanda Yo Santosa
Graphic Designer, Creative Director
Co Name: Ferroconcrete
Specialty: Branding and Design
Don Bosco SD, Jkt, Indonesia
Opera Estate Primary School, Singapore
Katong Convent Secondary School, Singapore
Art Center College of Design (bachelors), Los Angeles

How long have you been in this industry? Why you picked this industry? What is the story?

Ambien Buy Online 10 Years in 2010. In high school, I didn’t excel any subject except for Art; I had Best in Art Awards from pre-school all the way through high school. I had no other choice, really. My future was written in stone.

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Buy Ambien In Mexico All things that are thought out to make life (products)/communication (brands) better. In fact, if you want to, you can design your life.

Buy Zolpidem Online Uk What is your design philosophy?

https://www.fesn.org/?gyt=i6rrim9s A good designer doesn’t see platform limitations across print, web, motion or other media. A good designer sees infinite possibilities-and creatively incorporates design into everything, literally. I believe this is vital to remember as traditional branding continues to shift and evolve. The root of successful branding is good communication and good ideas-and good ideas have no boundaries.

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Tadao Ando.

What is so special about Tadao Ando?

https://nicomuhly.com/news/2023/dtgmpsg He makes music with concrete, light and space. His minimal design exposes the material and brings out its natural beauty.
And I forgot to add one of my other heroes, Tibor Kalman, for his wit, variety and amazing caliber of work.

https://filmsofnepal.com/9b99far2t17 Err, I read that Steve Job is one of your heroes. Why Apple is so successful as a brand? Let’s make the geeks happy πŸ™‚

They make “design” a part of the foundation of their brand strategy.

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Giving a personality to a service/product or even person.

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Zolpidem Mail Order A brand also has character, personality and emotion; it allures … and entertains, it tells its story visually, emotionally and epically.

In my observation, branding is being discussed more in marketing terms, rather than design terms. Do you think branding is marketers’ thing or designers’ thing?

It’s both. A designer has to be able to market. And a Marketer has to have an eye for design.

https://nicomuhly.com/news/2023/u0qzdkr How important is branding to a company? In terms of existence, success, or even failure.

Its paramount, specially as we move forward to such a brand and design conscious group young of consumers. Its the difference between being remembered and forgotten.

https://www.fesn.org/?gyt=81k6clcga It may sound so basic, but is branding all about logo and fancy graphics? I mean in order to hype up the actual product or service?

A logo is part of a brand, so are “fancy” graphics. But those 2 things amounts to a small amount that makes up a brand. A brand is so emotive and has no preset tool to communicate. It can be a website, a package, a space, a T-shirt, a song, and event, a sign, a word and, motion. You can smell it, taste it, touch it, love it, hate it. I think of a brand as a person/personality.

After Pinkberry’s branding success, many other design firm started doing the same visual styles. How do you feel about that, as a designer?

Competition is good. Makes the product category stronger, and not to mention it gave me a drive to be better.

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https://totlb.com/uncategorized/h8ujb5z Do you think every company should have a branding consultant?

Yes, specially retail.

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It’s the only market based on desire rather than necessity. And to sell a want, a brand needs to have allure, not just facts.

NavinoT is full of startup (wannabes). So, what branding advices would you like to give them?

Passion for your product/service/what you believe in should show through. People love honestly and transparency. While small, use it as your testing ground to really develop a brand voice.

When should they start considering branding in their work?

When they have enough of a following, and are ready to entice a new, bigger market.

http://www.docstrangelove.com/2023/10/19/v1p9ch73l0u Let’s slow down and talk more about you. It seems that you are an entrepreneur yourself. How’s Ferroconcrete doing right now?

Ferroconcrete? She is doing well. Creating new things. Having a good time, drinking the night away. Making new friends.

https://www.fesn.org/?gyt=49s0y4n So, running your own company is something you really wanted/planned?
Yes.

Was Pinkberry your first client of your company? If yes, did it help getting you new clients?
Yes. Yes.

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https://haveaircustoms.com/5ahjpfr In your (relatively) young career, How many awards have you received so far?

You are making me count. I hate counting. 15 or so…Β  You can check them out yourself.

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Emmy Nomination for Desperate Housewives. Its the first big one, and the event had an after party.

https://www.estaciondelcoleccionista.com/tgi8bhs7g8q What have you learned so far about running a business?

I hate budgeting and estimating

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Of course.

https://www.mmjreporter.com/4uq9d5e5-43749 Hey, what is your splash of bad taste?

Back Seat designing.

And what is that?

Someone who sits behind you and tries to tell you where to place the image, move the type, etc.

https://fladefenders.org/upzur0e6w Pepsi or Coke?

Coke. And no, I do not agree that Pepsi = Obama and Coke = McCain

— End of Interview —

Even though Yo was born in Indonesia, she has moved around so many times. She said that she still understand Bahasa Indonesia, but it is a torture for her to speak and write fluently. Therefore, if you happen to have questions, please ask in English. Cheers! πŸ™‚

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34 thoughts on “Discussing Design & Branding with Yolanda Santosa

  1. Lovely interview!

    I specially love ‘retail is more about desire, not necessity’.

    So, how would you drive desire? What human emotion would you exploit the most? Fear? How do you incorporate it in the brand?

    1. Kalau diterjemahkan ntar “feel”-nya hilang. Jadi kita pertahankan bentuk aselinya, bentuk impor πŸ˜€

  2. Hey I watch Desperate Housewives and 300. Ternyata ada tangan2 orang Indonesia yg terlibat disana. Kagum deh sama anak2 bangsa ini.

  3. yolanda’s work is amazing, i would be surprised if she hadn’t got all that awards.
    It is important to put passion to whatever you’re doing, i learned lately. That will give your product/brand that strong characteristics that can only be given by you.

  4. Yaiks, awesome interview from an inspiring person and inspiring blog πŸ˜€

    i wonder houw you guys held this interview? Quick email? What a technique i want to know πŸ˜€

    hmm.. is it right or wrong? I hadn’t see any instruction for “critical thinking contest” best-article-category?

  5. omijii..her design reallly kewll..
    i proud become indonesian.
    although i am not part of it,i hope i can like that.
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    for you, design as hobby or what?

    @fikri
    maybe this posting not for contest just interview.
    i think like that,,

    1. It’s part of the contest as well. Feel free to write anything you want. SOrry, forgot to include the official tag.

  6. I’m impressed, Yo. Thanks for sharing your insights with us.

    If I could get you to answer one question, it would be “What do you think the biggest contribution to your success, is it education, talent, hard work, living in a country like USA where people are accustomed to no limitation and everything is possible, or a combination of the above?”

    I think this question is important. The culture here more or less dictates that “Hey, you can’t have everything you want! You’re just …” and that I believe can truly self-sabotage people into achieving great things in life.

    I personally know there are a lot of talents in Indonesia. Just that there’s missing ingredient as to what people achieve on average because of education, culture and perhaps other things. Really like to know what your thoughts behind this.

    Hopefully that could be a greater motivation for everyone to make a difference and live life to the fullest.

    Thanks again for the interview. Also for Ivan for making this available to NavinoT’s readers.

  7. Brand is the distinction which I distinguish between one product with other products. If we want to have a brand, we have carefully observed the characteristics of the products we make with other products.

    At the time we launched the product, there may be hundreds of the same product in the market. How we can attract people if we do not have a brand?

    So we not only sell the product. Brands that we make will raise the value of our products products.

    Do You Agree Sobb….?????

  8. Wow. Thanks so much for the positive feedback πŸ™‚

    Hendry, to answer your question, β€œWhat do you think the biggest contribution to your success, is it education, talent, hard work, living in a country like USA where people are accustomed to no limitation and everything is possible, or a combination of the above?”

    I think its the combination of all of the above. I was lucky enough to have gone to a great school, who taught me not only how to design, but to think. As far as talent, I think its only fair that I am talented at what I do, considering I am really untalented in all the other subjects (Science, Math, History, O-God). Hard work, yes! Lots of perspiration, working nights, and weekends, specially at the beginning of my career. Lastly, know when opportunity is knocking, and be ready to take risks. Sometimes I think being scared/uncertain is good, because it means I am about to do something I have never done before. I believe β€œEverything is possible” is a state of mind.

    πŸ™‚ Yo

  9. Hey, what is your splash of bad taste?

    Back Seat designing.

    And what is that?

    Someone who sits behind you and tries to tell you where to place the image, move the type, etc.
    _____________

    You know, I hate it too. Because design is exploring our mind (not someone’s mind) and put it on something.

  10. I think its the combination of all of the above. I was lucky enough to have gone to a great school, who taught me not only how to design, but to think. As far as talent, I think its only fair that I am talented at what I do, considering I am really untalented in all the other subjects (Science, Math, History, O-God

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