Turn scattered emails into one creative brief. Describe your service, and Makeform creates an intake for brand context, audience, visual direction, deliverables, files, budget, and timing.
Route logo briefs to Slack, Google Sheets, and Zapier.
Sample prompts for logo intake
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Audience
Founders commissioning a first logo
Format
Guided creative brief with uploads
Prompt size
212 chars
Suggested form structure
Guided creative brief with uploads
What does the company do?
Who should the brand appeal to?
Choose the desired logo direction
Upload references or existing assets
Budget range and launch date
Suggested routing tags
New identity
Logo refresh
Ready for review
Ask where the logo will appear and the smallest size it must support. Usage reveals practical design constraints.
Step 1
Discover
brand, audience, goals, and competitors
Step 2
Define
style, use cases, files, and constraints
Step 3
Route
budget, deadline, owner, and approvers
Step 4
Design
a complete brief reaches the creative team
Better creative briefs
Structured prompts expose the strategy, constraints, and approval path a designer needs before concepts begin.
Capture what the organization does, who it serves, what makes it different, and how the identity should feel.
Show current-logo history and retention requirements only for redesigns.
References, existing marks, guidelines, deadlines, and stakeholders arrive in one submission.
Built around your service
Generate the intake depth that fits your process, from qualification to full discovery.
Screen by budget, deadline, project type, and decision-maker.
Explore audience, personality, positioning, and visual references.
Document current problems, retained equity, and the change to express.
Capture the owner, reviewers, approver, priority, and launch milestone.
Form-building workflow
Generate an intake, tailor its questions, and route each request to the right owner.
Name your clients and whether you deliver one logo, variations, or a broader identity.
Require essentials, add guidance, and place strategic context before visual preferences.
Show redesign, language, or packaging follow-ups only when relevant.
Share or embed the form, then send submissions to your inbox or connected workflow.
Request quality
Balance enough client guidance with structured answers for scoping and design.
Field guide
Use six focused sections to turn preferences into a workable brief.
Contact and scope
Collect the people and commercial basics needed to qualify and route the project.
Brand foundation
Learn what the organization offers and the perception it wants to create.
Audience and market
Define priority audiences and buying context. Competitors reveal category patterns to follow or avoid.
Visual direction
Preferences become useful when clients explain why they respond to a reference.
Usage and deliverables
Capture real environments so the logo system includes appropriate arrangements and formats.
Process and approvals
Record who contributes, consolidates feedback, and makes the final decision.
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Open toolFAQ
Practical answers for agencies, freelancers, and in-house creative teams organizing logo inquiries.
It is a structured intake for brand background, audience, goals, visual preferences, uses, deliverables, budget, timing, files, and approvers. Designers can identify gaps before scoping or concept work.
Ask what the organization does, who it serves, why the logo is needed, what perception it should create, where it will appear, which deliverables are expected, the deadline, and who approves.
Style prompts help when clients explain why they like a reference. Connect preferences to audience, positioning, and uses so answers guide exploration without prescribing the solution.
Yes. Use conditional follow-ups. Redesigns can cover current problems, retained recognition, source files, and rollout risks. New-logo requests can focus on the business story, positioning, and launch.
Yes. Add uploads for current logos, guidelines, sketches, research, and references. Label accepted formats and ask why each reference matters; an image alone can be ambiguous.
Add instructions beside long answers. Replace broad prompts with focused questions about audience, difference, personality, and desired change. Require evaluation essentials while leaving uncertain details optional.
Yes. Makeform provides unlimited free forms and responses, with no form or response cap. Generate, edit, publish, and collect requests for free; the paid tier removes the Makeform badge.
Check strategy, scope, timing, and approvals before kickoff. Route qualified requests to the owner and use discovery for unresolved decisions. The form supports conversation; it does not replace creative judgment.
Start every identity project with a clearer brief.
