Making a Visual Impact: How to Develop Your Brand Design and Bring Your Message to Life

Which colors, fonts, and shapes truly suit your business? In this workshop, you’ll learn how to develop your own brand design step by step—and give your values a clear visual language that conveys your message at a glance.

Begin 17. November 2026 - 14:30
End 17. November 2026 - 16:00
For whom

Students, research assistants, founders and those interested in starting a business, entrepreneurs

Where

online (link will be provided after registration)

Registration

Binding registration by November 11, 2026, using the registration form

Here's what you can expect

Good brand design is much more than just a pretty logo or a nice color scheme. It’s the visual foundation of your business—the translation of your values, your attitude, and your personality into a form that your target audience instantly recognizes and intuitively understands.

But where do you start if you haven’t studied design? Which color scheme truly aligns with your message? And how do you avoid getting lost in endless trial and error with fonts and templates?

In this hands-on workshop, we’ll bring order to the design process. We’ll guide you step by step and tackle the topic of brand design from the inside out. You’ll learn the most important design fundamentals and discover how to make informed decisions using a clear brand filter, so that your visual identity ultimately not only looks great but also perfectly aligns with who you are and what you stand for.

What to expect:

  • Laying the Foundation: Using your own values, you’ll identify your brand filter, which you can use to easily evaluate every design decision moving forward.
  • Colors & Impact: We’ll explore the basics of color psychology and show you how to put together a cohesive color palette that conveys exactly the right mood.
  • Typography & Fonts: Which fonts work well together? We’ll teach you the basics of font selection and how to use typography effectively for your brand identity.
  • Logo & Design Language: You’ll learn what makes a timeless, functional logo and how to combine shapes and visual elements effectively.
  • The Path to Implementation: You’ll discover how to structure the design process step by step so that, after the workshop, you can start implementing your design elements right away at your own pace.

At the end of the workshop, you’ll go home with a clear roadmap, concrete templates, and the necessary tools to implement your brand design confidently and efficiently at your own pace.

The input portion of this workshop (excluding the Q&A session) will be recorded and will be available for 3 days afterward.
The recording will be sent only to registered workshop participants so they can review the content afterward. As long as you keep your camera and microphone off, you will neither be heard nor seen in the recording.

Language

The language of the event is German.

Contact Person

B.Sc.
Claudia Döring
Center for Knowledge Transfer and Education
02763 Zittau
Schwenninger Weg 1
Building Z VII, Room 411
4th upper floor
+49 3583 612-4901

The Startup Academy is funded by the European Social Fund Plus (ESF Plus).