Press and Partners
Partners
The forwardable line and paragraph
puts a tag in the things brands already make, so the people who actually turn up stop being anonymous.
Every brand has a small number of people who make it matter. The ones who queued, who travelled, who wore it first, who brought someone with them.
Turning up is the most expensive thing any of them can do for a brand, and the only thing the brand never finds out about.
puts a tag in the product, the ticket, the wristband. Someone holds their phone to it, the brand's own page opens, and the moment goes on the record.
So fans can prove they were there, and brands can know who showed up.
Co-branding
Two approved lockups, horizontal and stacked. The partner mark leads in both.
Horizontal
Default variation
Use CasesSite Footers
•Email Footers
•Portal
•Credits
Minimum Size150px (Digital)
•38mm (Print)
Stacked
For columns, tall formats or when horizontal lockup would be set too small
Use CasesPosters
•Panels
•Signage
•OOH
Minimum Size150px (Digital)
•38mm (Print)
Attribution Tiers
Full attribution
Partners running an experience on TapTech end to end.
CarriesThe Powered by DEPARTMNT lockup, in the co-branding lockup or on its own.
SurfacesSite Footers
•Printed Collateral
•Signage
Credit only
Partners where DEPARTMNT is one supplier among several.
CarriesThe DEPARTMNT wordmark in a credits line. No lockup, no Powered by.
SurfacesCredits
•Case Studies
•Press Releases
White label
Agreed per engagement, in writing, before the build starts.
CarriesNo mark. The experience carries the partner's brand alone.
Do
- Lead with the partner mark; DEPARTMNT follows
- Keep Powered by locked to the DEPARTMNT mark, never on its own
- Match the two marks on optical weight, not on bounding box
- Keep the divider rule at the height of the DEPARTMNT wordmark
- Hold clear space of one X either side of the divider
- Set both marks in the same colour
Do not
- Put DEPARTMNT ahead of the partner mark
- Lock a partner mark to the DEPARTMNT wordmark without Powered by
- Scale the two marks to the same height and call it balanced
- Recolour one mark to match the other
- Rebuild the lockup by eye instead of using the master file
- Set the horizontal lockup below 180px wide
DEPARTMNT BRAND SYSTEM V1.0 · UPDATED AUGUST 2026