Templates

Brief templates that fill themselves in.

Every template is a question set, not a blank document. Read what it asks and why, then start it: the answers write the brief for you.

Creative brief template

The sections a creative brief needs before anyone can talk about tone, with an example line in each. It routes you to the motion, web or print brief that fits the work.

About 9 questionsAbout 90 seconds
Design brief template

A design brief in eight sections: the problem, the constraints, and the room for judgement. Fill it in by hand from the example, or answer the questions and let the page write it.

About 10 questionsAbout 90 seconds
Brand brief template

What a brand or identity brief has to decide before a designer can start: who it is for, what it must not become, and what already exists. The applications are briefed as print, web or motion.

About 10 questionsAbout 90 seconds
Logo brief template

A logo brief is a small identity brief with the applications named. This page gives you the sections, the decisions that matter, and the mistakes that cost a round.

About 10 questionsAbout 90 seconds
Video brief template

A video brief as a finished document: placements, the hero cut, technique, sound, what exists, budget and dates. The specifications are worked out from what you pick.

About 9 questionsAbout 90 seconds
Social media video brief template

One social video is usually several files. This brief names every placement, so the ratios, durations, sound rules and caption needs are written for you before the quote.

About 9 questionsAbout 90 seconds
Motion graphics brief template

“We have the assets, they only need to move” is sometimes true and sometimes a 2D animation in disguise. This brief tells the two apart before anyone quotes.

About 9 questionsAbout 90 seconds
Website brief template

A website brief as a document: pages against templates, what the site must do, who edits it afterwards, and who writes the copy. The parts that move the quote are marked.

About 10 questionsAbout 90 seconds
Web design brief template

Design only, or design and build. Who edits it, and what a contact form obliges you to. The sections of a web design brief with an example line in each.

About 10 questionsAbout 90 seconds
Landing page brief template

One page, one thing the visitor should do. This brief makes you name that thing, and it shows why the copy decides the timeline.

About 10 questionsAbout 90 seconds
Packaging design brief template

The four things a packaging brief needs from you, and the print specification that follows from them. You do not need to know what flexo is.

About 10 questionsAbout 90 seconds
Print brief template

A print brief for collateral, editorial and signage: the piece, the quantity, the finishes, what must be on it, and the date that sets the real artwork deadline.

About 10 questionsAbout 90 seconds