Collect silent audience evidence
Five-second test
Reviewer records first message, mood and focal elementDoes the system survive a new format and a real audience test?
Hook · decode · mechanism · demonstration · guided work · checkpoint · exit
Conduct a silent five-second test before any designer explains the work.
Students commit to one observation before discussion.
Audience evidence, targeted revision, consistency audit, A4 adaptation, alternate-audience transfer, source logging, export specifications and rationale.
A brand system proves itself through transfer. Some spatial decisions must change with format, while palette, type roles, tone and identity remain recognizably consistent.
Five-second test
Reviewer records first message, mood and focal elementRubric plus test evidence
One hierarchy, contrast or spacing mismatch is namedNew document using the same system
Layout changes spatially while palette, type roles and mark remain consistentStyle tile beside both deliverables
Colours, type roles, imagery treatment and mark match deliberatelySource log, contrast and text-safe audit
Every image is attributed and essential text remains legibleExport As
1080 sRGB PNG and print-ready A4 PDF/JPG open correctlyAdapt only the hierarchy and spacing; keep the approved palette, type roles and mark fixed.
Reposition the brand for a second audience and defend which system elements needed to change.
Style tile, square launch piece, adaptation, audience-test evidence, before/after revision, source log and rationale are complete.
What changed between formats, what stayed consistent and why?