<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[JON RACINSKAS]]></title><description><![CDATA[JON RACINSKAS]]></description><link>https://www.jonracinskas.com/blog</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2026 06:04:38 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://www.jonracinskas.com/blog-feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[How do you make bowling cool? (A U.S. Air Force Services Case Study]]]></title><description><![CDATA[As off-duty life moved increasingly online, the U.S. Air Force wanted to give a new generation of Airmen a reason to reconnect in person. League Night turned an overlooked network of bowling centres into an opportunity to build community, using humour, behavioural insight, and bowling’s glorious lack of cool to bring people together.]]></description><link>https://www.jonracinskas.com/post/airforce</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a84a3348cfa01baa5a12af9</guid><category><![CDATA[Case Studies]]></category><category><![CDATA[Branding]]></category><pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 18:41:51 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/86dced_c6d4554cd9584995af836763790b46fb~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Jon Račinskas</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[What Actually Happens During a Brand Refresh? (And How Is A Refresh Different from a Rebrand?)]]></title><description><![CDATA[A brand refresh can take months, but surprisingly little of that time is spent designing. Using the International School of Texas as an example, here’s what a three-month refresh actually looked like, from stakeholder surveys and a four-hour alignment workshop through design, approvals, guidelines, templates, and rollout.]]></description><link>https://www.jonracinskas.com/post/ist</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a84b0a58cfa01baa5a148f7</guid><category><![CDATA[Branding]]></category><category><![CDATA[Process]]></category><pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2026 19:42:38 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/86dced_f07a87f8549f485f8a58233dcb3548ef~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Jon Račinskas</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[How do you build a brand that’s designed to outgrow itself? (A Deloitte Case Study)]]></title><description><![CDATA[Discover how a Brand Alignment Workshop helped Deloitte’s Emerging Market Opportunities team create a scalable brand identity built around growth, innovation, and strategic clarity. This case study explores the branding process from stakeholder alignment and brand strategy to identity design, showing how better questions led to a stronger, more adaptable brand system.]]></description><link>https://www.jonracinskas.com/post/emo</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a837117f59f6f7f1068937a</guid><category><![CDATA[Case Studies]]></category><category><![CDATA[Branding]]></category><pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2026 22:08:10 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/86dced_28b10e47a12a4f7a8bee3c9ab0d4088e~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Jon Račinskas</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[How do you make a brand timeless but never static? (A Seoul International Film Festival Case Study)]]></title><description><![CDATA[After several years of dormancy, the Seoul International Film Festival needed more than a new identity. It needed a brand built for the next decade. I developed a modular brand system that separated the enduring festival identity from each year’s campaign, allowing the brand to evolve without losing recognition. I then led an international creative team to extend the system across every audience touchpoint for the festival’s relaunch.]]></description><link>https://www.jonracinskas.com/post/siff</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a84805ac3f728e21a2986b3</guid><category><![CDATA[Case Studies]]></category><category><![CDATA[Branding]]></category><pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 16:09:29 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/86dced_2a3f526aac7c48bcb8f4bf0ef7b31eec~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Jon Račinskas</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody Actually Wants a Rebrand]]></title><description><![CDATA[Nobody wakes up wanting a rebrand. They want more customers, clearer positioning, stronger differentiation, or a business that finally makes sense to the people they’re trying to reach. A rebrand is rarely the goal. It’s simply one of the tools that can help solve the real problem. The organizations that see the greatest success start by asking better business questions, not better design questions.]]></description><link>https://www.jonracinskas.com/post/nobody-actually-wants-a-rebrand</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a839c2c3a73f167659c7a83</guid><category><![CDATA[Branding]]></category><pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2026 23:42:02 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/86dced_af26b0615a9148cdad37d4b58caa2df4~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_700,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Jon Račinskas</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[How do you design for a post-pandemic retail customer? (A Deloitte Case Study}]]></title><description><![CDATA[As COVID-19 transformed the way people shopped, one of America’s largest grocery chains needed to understand how physical retail, automation, and customer expectations might evolve. Embedded within Deloitte’s consulting team as a fractional Creative Director, I researched emerging behaviours, envisioned the future of grocery retail, and translated that thinking into an immersive VR prototype stakeholders could explore before making strategic investments.]]></description><link>https://www.jonracinskas.com/post/how-do-you-design-for-a-post-pandemic-retail-customer-a-deloitte-case-study</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a848a00c3f728e21a2997a5</guid><category><![CDATA[Case Studies]]></category><pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2026 17:56:39 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/86dced_2c5cb9495c7d41d9b765d6edb39fbc33~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Jon Račinskas</dc:creator></item></channel></rss>