ReD. BrandDesign

01/11/2026

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11/10/2026

Diagnose before you Design.
This TBE session - Follow the Evidence
is on point with evidence of that statement.

HAVE YOU EVER STOPPED RECOGNISING A PRODUCT YOU’VE BEEN BUYING FOR YEARS?

This is exactly what happened to some Tropicana customers when the company redesigned its orange juice packaging in 2009.

For decades, Tropicana had built a strong relationship with American consumers.

Its familiar packaging, featuring an orange with a straw, had become instantly recognisable.

Then the company decided to modernise it.

New packaging. New typography. A completely different appearance.

The result?

A significant decline in sales and a decision to return to the previous design.

But here’s the interesting part.

The problem wasn’t necessarily that the new packaging looked bad.

The problem was that the company changed something customers had already learned to recognise and trust.

I have a personal connection to this story.

When I lived in the United States, Tropicana was my favourite orange juice. There was almost always a carton in my refrigerator.

Years later, when I learned about the redesign, I remember thinking:

“Wait a minute. That was my orange juice!”

And that reaction made me think about something important.

Businesses often become tired of their own identities.

But what feels old to a business may represent familiarity, confidence and trust to its customers.

In our first FOLLOW THE EVIDENCE episode, Elena and I examine what happened to Tropicana and what businesses can learn from it.

Before changing something familiar about your business, have you considered why customers value it?

The Brand Engineer Sessions
FOLLOW THE EVIDENCE | Episode 01

https://youtu.be/NJn8n56NEG4?is=3oKKzuaNLut5MfsP

21/09/2026

If your business looks like this, you may have left the check-up a little too late.

Businesses rarely develop problems overnight.

Positioning weakens.
Customers change.
Communication loses impact.
Competitors become more relevant.
The experience becomes inconsistent.

And when the symptoms finally become obvious, the temptation is to start prescribing solutions.

A new identity.
A new website.
A new campaign.
More advertising.

But before deciding what to change, you need to understand what is actually wrong.

That's why we start with a Business & Brand Diagnostic.

We identify what's working, what's weakening, what's changed and what actually requires attention.

Then we determine the right intervention.

Because good design isn't about making everything look better.
It's about solving the right problem.

DIAGNOSE BEFORE YOU DESIGN.
https://redbranddesign.com/brand-diagnostic/

ReD. Brand Design
Built to Matter.

12/09/2026

A moment from our clients brand experience!

25/08/2026

Our most on point campaign yet.

16/08/2026

WHY BRAND ENGINEERING?

Business has changed.

Markets are more crowded. Competition is more visible. Customers have greater access to information, more alternatives and more opportunities to compare one business with another.

Research consistently shows that strategic planning contributes positively to organisational performance, while evidence from the OECD and European Commission points to increasing competitive pressure, digital transformation and market uncertainty as significant realities facing businesses today.

But increased competition creates another challenge.

When people have more choice, being good is no longer enough. They need a reason to choose you.

That reason is not created by design alone.
It is not created by marketing alone.
And it is not created by strategy sitting in a presentation.

It is created by the relationship between what a business intends to be, how it positions itself, what it communicates, what it delivers and how people ultimately experience it.

This is the territory of Brand Engineering.

Brand Engineering brings together business strategy, brand strategy, positioning, identity, communication and experience as one connected system designed around a specific outcome:

to deliberately influence how a business is understood, experienced and valued.

Because businesses cannot control what people think about them.

But they can design the conditions that influence it.

And in increasingly competitive markets, leaving those conditions to chance becomes a business risk.

Brand Engineering exists because perception has become too important to be accidental.

Build to Matter.

15/08/2026

“The project might be finished. The responsibility isn’t.
The people responsible for the business need to know why things were put in place, not simply what was put in place”

Building the right brand is one thing. Continuing to deserve that brand is another.

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06/08/2026

THE COVER
A brand is more than what people see.

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02/08/2026

The Experiences
People may forget what you said…

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01/08/2026