a brand guide on one canvas

The brief: take the ixi logo, a pixel monogram, and build its whole visual identity on one canvas, so the guide, the assets and the mockups live in the same place and never drift apart. Everything is derived from the logo picture, and every generated image keeps its prompt in a text node beside it.

1 · the logo is the input

One image node holds the logo. An op node with bria/remove-background gives a transparent copy. Most later pictures are image model nodes with the logo wired into their image input, so what is made on the board stays tied to the same mark.

2 · palette, pattern and light-and-dark

Three text nodes hold prompts, one each for the colour palette, the pattern and the mockups sheet. Each is wired, with the logo, into an image node: GPT Image 2 for the final versions, after earlier tries with Seedream 5 Pro that stay on the canvas. The palette sheet comes back with five named swatches, vibrant blue plus peach, cream, lavender and mint.

The pattern is a repeating grid of the monogram and small diamonds, and it becomes an input to later mockups.

3 · the written guide

Five sticky notes carry the guideline chapters: brand story and voice, logo usage and placement, colour specifications, type hierarchy, and pattern usage. Three of the chapters point at the node they describe by its id, so the note and the picture stay together.

A process node, ixi Brand Guideline Wiki, packages the job of assembling the guide. Its four inputs are the logo, palette, pattern and mockups, each an image. A pixie named Wisp is on the canvas with the brand rules in its memory, and it reads the notes while it works.

4 · the merch range

The same pattern and a pixie illustration, made once and reused, feed eleven mockup nodes: a cream t-shirt, a dark slate t-shirt, a hoodie, a dad hat, socks, a tote, accessories, a desk mat, a framed poster, a laptop sleeve and a modular sticker set. Each has its own prompt in a text node and takes the logo, the illustration or the pattern as image inputs.

Three more notes group the range: apparel, desk and lifestyle, and an archive of earlier tries.

what to borrow

• Wire one source to many models. One image input feeds every variant: nodes and wires and model nodes.
• Keep every prompt visible. Text beside the node that uses it: notes, text and zones.
• Compare tries. Each run is kept: generations.
• Turn the finished guide into a recipe. make a process.
• Put a pixie on the board. meet the pixies.