The D Brand Summit - February 1, 2008

Brand Examples

See the best of the current crop of advertising, design and new media from The D's most forward-thinking talents — including the new D Brand campaign from the Detroit Metro Convention & Visitors Bureau. The following examples were presented at the Summit.

A growing number of organizations large and small are findings ways to use the D Brand to enhance their marketing efforts.

The Henry Ford


Catering Ad

Using the D Brand Maps

The Henry Ford Web Site

The Bellwether

America Rocks

The Henry Ford Promotion

Detroit Tigers


Detroit Tigers Program
The Tigers have a new background story that incorporates elements of the D Brand story — setting up a stronger link between a great baseball experience and a resurgent downtown — a great place to spend time after a game.

Detroit Scoreboard
and LED Boards

D Brand identity cues positive, powerful Detroit tourism messages that promote the surrounding city to visitors

Media Kit
The Tigers now leverage a previously un-used opportunity to tell the story of the city to an influential audience of media and out-of-town clubs.

Strategic Staffing Solutions


Strategic Staffing Solutions
A leading international IT consulting organization is aligning with the D Brand’s focus on 21-34 year-old early adopters to develop new recruitment efforts targeted to this group.

Strategic Staffing Solutions Web Site
On its newly updated web site, Strategic Staffing Solutions proudly claims its Detroit headquarters and heritage in a way that aligns well with the D Brand story.

The D Map system creates a bright and easy-to-understand impression of metro Detroit. As growing numbers of organizations adopt them, they send a highly visible message that we see ourselves in a positive, unified and welcoming way.

Metro Times You Are Here


Metro Times
You Are Here

Detroit's lively weekly news and culture publication Metro Times has adopted the D Map system to help readers find their way to the D's many offerings. Look for the D Map System to expand as Metro Times expands its coverage to a wider range of Detroit-area communities and neighborhoods than ever.

The D Brand story wasn't invented so much as discovered — it brings together great ideas, images, messages and attitudes that the best D communicators have often discovered and used on their own. We find great examples all around us every day. In this section, we share them and celebrate them.

Detroit Institute of Arts


DIA
The DIA's new advertising campaign celebrates the museum's dramatic renovation and much-anticipated reopening with a cool and playful confidence that lifts the spirit and breaks expectations. Delightful Detroit vibe, high culture style.

Advertising and promotional campaigns created for the Bureau use new insight and new messages to tell a bolder and more focused story about Detroit — and achieve real results.

Convention & Meeting Campaign


Convention & Meeting Campaign
Created by Berline & Associates, the irreverent and youthful new convention/meeting campaign is turning heads in the meetings industry. In the past year, the number of confirmed bookings has nearly doubled.



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