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ABOUT CanBrand

A team that treats branding as engineering

CanBrand® is a Jinan brand strategy and visual integration consultancy, founded in 1999 under design educator Mr. Yu Maoyang. For 27 years, one job only: translating corporate strategy intent into brand language that clients, channels and markets can all read.

Since 1999Trained under Mr. Yu MaoyangTop 50 brand design firms in ChinaUniversity practice mentor

OUR PEOPLE

CanBrand elite: the people behind every project

Core members — click a card for the full profile.

Full résumés, professional-title certificates and social-insurance records of further members are available for tender requirements.

WHO WE ARE

We don't make “pretty pictures” — we deliver brand assets that sell

CanBrand® started as a design studio with three desks. In the first decade, logos and VI built our reputation across Shandong manufacturing and the SOE system; in the second, clients began entrusting us with packaging, brochures, websites and exhibition halls together; today, we deliver the full chain from strategy toFull-scope branding。

Our main battlegrounds are clear:Machinery & equipment manufacturing, food/tea/agriculture, culture & tourism, group VI, exhibition SI. What these industries share: long decision chains, demanding tender requirements and acute sensitivity to “professionalism.” So we write proposals as reviewable structures, produce designs as buildable drawings, and make deliverables acceptance-ready checklists.

The team is compact, but every project is run bydirector-levelHands-on throughout: the strategy director sets direction, the visual director sets standards, and the spatial & packaging directors govern rollout. No layered-subcontracting “designer pool,” no proposals outsourced to freelancers.

In 27 years we have turned down some jobs — budgets too thin to support a complete brand, or clients who just wanted to “try a logo first.” Not out of pride: we know a brand is a long-term asset, and when the opening direction is wrong, every later investment pays for that mistake.

positioning theorysuper symbolscategory strategyintegrated marketingvisual hammer
27 years — one thing only: the brand
300+ brand projects
81 case studies viewable online
50 · among China's top brand design firms

HOW WE THINK

Three questions set the direction; four steps deliver

The method is no secret; the hard part is skipping no step. This is the working order 27 years has distilled.

Three questions · answered before every proposal

  1. Where does the business need to go?What will your revenue, client and product mix look like in three years? The brand must serve that future — not talk to itself.
  2. Why should clients believe you?Translate technology, capacity, credentials and cases into one sentence the other side understands, remembers and repeats.
  3. How does a visual become memorable?On a shelf, on a storefront, in a page of tender documents — which element makes people recognize you at a glance.

Four steps · deliverables at every step

  1. research & diagnosis: industry, competitors and client interviews, producing the Brand Diagnosis Report.
  2. strategy & positioning: brand positioning, value proposition and language system, producing the Brand Strategy Outline.
  3. visual rollout: logo, VI, packaging and space — producing buildable, printable specification files.
  4. delivery & follow-through: rollout training, vendor liaison and acceptance control — ensuring “design file = delivered result.”

SELECTED CLIENTS

Selected clients

Every name below comes from this site's case archive — open each entry to view the project.

Machinery & equipment

  • 中国电建
  • 济南城建集团
  • 纳诺铸造
  • 劲通管业
  • 寰宇线缆
  • 信诺润滑
  • 淄博百特润滑油
  • 博奥炭黑
  • 宝美施 BOMEX 化工
  • 济南安乃达汽车电子
  • 闻森 Venson 空气技术
  • 华航电子科技
  • 神州贝尔电子科技
  • 山东兆丰年生物科技
  • 银飞达药业
  • 芬泰玻璃工艺
  • 青木精细化工
  • 沃加科技
  • 好鑫景观设施
  • 中达联工程咨询

Food · tea · agriculture

  • 陆羽会
  • 津不换肉丁鲜饺
  • 珍草堂
  • 枣酷金丝小枣
  • 东阿镇福阿胶
  • 东娇阿胶
  • 海立信海参
  • 罗亚香料
  • 麦鲜记
  • 美吃团
  • 港爱咖啡
  • 盈猫鲜坊

Culture & tourism

  • 银座佳悦酒店
  • 沐青汤泉
  • 青岛沐青汤泉
  • 佰家汤泉
  • 悦木观檀
  • 鲁雅文化
  • 一品麒麟
  • 石古意象
  • 龙子正一
  • 幸福时光 KTV
  • 古图斯国际造型
  • MEIKEER 玫可儿
  • 菩晟堂
  • 邦之尊珠宝
  • 自然堂
  • 欧宜英语
  • 华夏幼儿园
  • 华夏良子
  • 一心大药房
  • 丽人网
  • 逗鱼网络
  • 翼星文化传媒
  • 巨龙传媒
  • 楚海文化
  • Shandong Golden Stars basketball team

Group VI

  • 鲁商集团
  • 天泰集团
  • 开创集团
  • Longao Tower
  • Jinan Real Estate Transaction Center
  • 美里社区
  • 羲泽晟地产策划
  • 摩恩装饰
  • 百城物流
  • 诚惠物流
  • 旭升达物流
  • 泰山衬衣之友俱乐部
  • 仟友汇私董会

Industry bodies · public institutions

  • 山东省包装协会设计委
  • Qilu Star Design & Art Grand Prize
  • Jinan Real Estate Transaction Center
  • 美里社区

Talk about your brand first — decide on the partnership after

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FAQ about CanBrand

What kind of firm is CanBrand?

CanBrand (Shandong CanBrand Design Consulting Co., Ltd.) is a Jinan brand strategy and visual integration consultancy founded in 1999. Starting from research and positioning, it delivers LOGO and VI identity systems, product packaging systems, signage and exhibition halls, culture & tourism IP — and owns the rollout handover.

Who leads the team, and what are their backgrounds?

Creation is led by founder and principal designer Shi Haibin (art name Mideng), with design educator Mr. Yu Maoyang as art advisor. The team runs four lines — brand strategy, visual design, spatial & exhibition, rollout control — serving manufacturing, food, government and culture clients long-term.

How does a typical brand project run?

Five steps: research & diagnosis, positioning, visual design, system standards, rollout handover. We first fix how the business may express itself in its industry, then develop graphics and type, and finally produce a reusable VI manual and interface with print and signage construction.

Which regions do you cover?

Based in Jinan, serving all of Shandong and projects nationwide. Four main directions — manufacturing & SOEs, food & tea gifts, government & public institutions, culture & tourism — with on-site support for reviews and acceptance on remote projects.

CanBrand®

Founded in 1999, Jinan. Full-scope branding / LOGO VI / product packaging / exhibition SI.
Trained under Mr. Yu Maoyang; Top 50 brand design firm in China.

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