Brand visuals

The creation of a styleguide started with many creative sessions. Several logo's, fonts, colors and images were tested with the targetgroup. I tested the current logo with someone that represents the targetgroup for example:

"I think this is a technical company that creates cables, it looks solid, maybe something with chains to... It looks like they want to link something."

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The blue color stands for technology, serious and reliable. Grey stands for practical, solid and it strengthens other colors. These two colors match the core values of the brand. After the fine-tuning of all the elements a styleguide for design and social was created. It displays how to logo can be used, which fonts and properties to use, available colors and the way product photography most be done. Furthermore it displays which visual elements are available for social, rules for the creation of page and cover posts and the tone of voice.

Page (dutch) of the Cordic styleguide, regarding color use.

Product creation

The main goal of the products for Cordic is to reduce the amount of time and people that are needed to build a show or set-up. The products must be easy to use and be reliable. To reduce the amount of time I focused on cables. Because if you're building or breaking down a set-up most of the time is spend to cables and cable management. That's why I started with different sorts of combined cables. They are produced in the UK by a factory that makes these combinations especially for Cordic.

Combined cables for audiovisual professionals

Selling online

To sell online a webshop was needed. First, I started to design the webshop. The target group finds it important to see technical specs and quality details of the products. The mockups for the shop where based on the styleguide and standard e-commerce functionalities. To build the webshop fast Wordpress and Woocommerce have been used as basis.

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Technical features

• The shop updates productfeeds that are used by marketing channels such as Facebook(shop), Google Merchant Center and Marktplaats.
• It's responsive, this isn't really a feature but a requirement for the target group. Most of the time they shop on mobile (according to Cordic Google Analytics stats).
• Sufficient payment methods available for the Netherlands, due to Mollie integration.
• The webshop generates packingslips and invoices for shipment. When an order is placed and payed they are automatically printed.

Furthermore caching is enabled, CSS/HTML/JS files are combined + minified and SEO optimalization in the technical field is done. Currently I mantain the shop myself.