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Logos 
...and he asked, "do you do logos?" Yes and No. We help define the competitive advantage of companies and organizations. And sometimes that requires a new logo. ...
 
Regio 
Quo vadis? ReachU is a cartographer with global reach. It is also the leading mapmaker in Estonia with its Regio brand. Albeit synonymous with orientation, it...
Branding ABC 
Your need to sell won't make anyone buy You’ve heard of branding, but it’s something that works on other markets.You’ve seen international success stories and...
 
Warsaw Business Garden 
Positioning a business parkThe Warsaw Business Garden is built on an old cherry orchard. What used to be rural Poland is now close to Warsaw's airport and one of...
Press & Publications 
We like giving good advice and sharing our thoughts. Here are our most recent publications and featured projects in local and global press. Service Design...
 
LHV 
In collaboration with Oliver Reitalu.
Carpenter Touchmark 
Touchmark for Saaremaa carpenter A. Puppart Touchmark concept
VKG Sustainable Development Report 
Annual report of VKG’s Social Responsibility and Sustainable Development Art direction, production Download PDF
Silmviburlane 
Silmviburlane is a creative collaboration of Heilika and Ülo Pikkov. Silmviburlane initiates and produces films and other kind of visual tricks. Website art...
Luiga, Mody, Hääl, Borenius 
How lawyers are LMHB are lawyers. Their need for visual communication is limited, but still there. However, when lawyers have to use photography it all looks the...
 
World Cleanup / Let's Do It! 
Keeping self organized, well... organized. In 2007, Markko designed a logo for the Estonian clean up event "Teeme ära!" ("Let's do it!"). The event turned out to...
 
Welcome! 
Brand Manual is a branding & service design consultancy We work with companies to create new brands and design the products, services, spaces and interfaces that...
 
Qminder 
What is it like to be in a tech startup? Markko, one of our partners, went to find it out. He had the idea to use smartphones for taking queuing tickets, instead of...
 
Nokia 
In collaboration with Nokia Design. Product photography by Nokia.
Taste of Estonia 
A culinary souvenir Estonia has some gastronomic pearls. However, almost no-one knows about them. That is why the Culinary Institute of Estonia decided to introduce...
No Bananas 
Yes, we ain't got no bananas Harry Belafonte would be proud (at least we hope so). No Bananas is a Scandinavian brand created by Brand Manual for the seasonal...
 
EMSL 
Empowering citizens to engage with local government Our task was to develop an online environment that would improve the provision of public service in Viljandi. It...
 
Prisma 
Re-positioning of a hypermarket Prisma differs from other hypermarkets by shunning in-store promotions, having very wide aisles, no euro-pallet displays and fast...
Eesti Loto 
Modernizing Lady Luck! Eesti Loto (the Estonian State Lottery) had been run on the same principle for well over a decade. Long in the tooth, new management decided...
iBaker 
Moving from private label to own brand NordHaus is a market leader in frozen pastry products, but sub-contracting has it's well-known drawbacks. Therefore NordHaus...
 
TaxiPal 
What's "Taxi" in Malawi? This software application was the grand prix winner at the 2009 NAVTEQ LBS challenge. The service is available across the EU and N.America...
Our opinions and where to get them 
First of all, our blog Sometimes we've got to get an idea out of our heads, or an opinion off our chest. We put these in our blog, and you can read it here. ...
ParkNOW! 
The world's easiest and most convenient cell phone parking system. ParkNOW! is a leader in cell phone parking in the US. Slowly the company is branching out to...
 
Sinep 
How to sell environmental thinking to business-minded people in very small increments? Sinep, or Mustard in English, is the brand name we created for a smart...
 
Synerall 
How to sell utility services the way people would like to buy them? Synerall is a consumer and utility company energy management web service. Brand Manual was...
 
Viru 
How to do a brand facelift without leaving scars? Viru is a British owned trademark. The beer is brewed and bottled in Estonia and on sale in exclusive clubs and...
 
ArtPrint 
From commodity printing to high-end reproduction ArtPrint produces exhibition quality prints of digital art files. We've worked with ArtPrint for over a year,...
 
Clear Channel 
How to react, when the market shifts away from you? Clear Channel’s once pre-dominant position in outdoor (out-of-home) advertising was eroded by changing tastes...
 
Brand Manual 
Heads, not overheads Brand Manual is a branding and service design consultancy established in 2009 by 4 partners, each with a decade or two of experience from the...
 
Kaarel Mikkin 
Getting the right information from the right people at the right time to make the right decisions is Kaarel's undoubted strength. In Brand Manual, Kaarel works...
 
Markko Karu 
Markko is a 3 dimensional thinker, able to simplify and streamline complex systems into understandable services. Working with clients, he brings clarity to the...
 
J.Margus Klaar 
The main task of Margus is to create homogenous and single minded concepts out of disparate, and sometimes at first sight contradictory, information. He is a...
 
Dan Mikkin 
If there is one thought that best describes Dan Mikkin, then it is attention to detail. His work with clients ensures that even the least noticeable aspects are...
 
Our reading list 
Periodicals The Economist Sirp Monocle Wired Financial Times Books The Lean Startup by Eric Ries Never mind the sizzle...where's the sausage? by David J.Taylor The...
 
Our office 
We work in the heart of Rotermann Quarter, central Tallinn. Here's a few pictures to make finding us easier. Brand Manual OÜ Roseni 7C 10111 Tallinn, Estonia +372...
 
Tools 
What we can, we will share The brand map is one of the most useful tools we have. Usually activity reports or brand audits or whatnot are presented linearly. This...
 
Service design 
Designing the brand experience First there were commodities... ...then came products, followed by branded goods. Once everyone got good at making stuff, providing a...