Indiana University brand guidelines
Indiana University presents an institutional brand portal featuring brand strategy frameworks, campaign guidelines, downloadable templates, and recorded brand education sessions.
Homepage of Indiana University's brand portal with links to brand frameworks, toolkits, and education sessions.
The IU Brand framework overview showing positioning, campus values, content pillars, and personality traits.
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I like how practical Indiana University makes institutional governance feel. Rather than just handing down visual mandates, the site devotes real space to brand education sessions and workshops. Finding slide decks, presentation recordings, and specific contact leads alongside high-level positioning and campaign pillars grounds the system in daily campus life. The crimson-tinted layout keeps things structured across different regional campus values, while clear paths lead right into practical templates.
At a glance
- Sections
- The IU Brand · Channel Best Practices · Tools & Downloads · Contacts & Requests
- Downloads
- PowerPoint (.pptx)
- Tone
- Authoritative and educational, focusing on institutional impact and shared community values.
What I noticed
- The hero section offers direct call-to-action buttons to download brand templates and explore brand education sessions.12
- The IU Brand section organizes personality traits into Looks, Feels, and Acts categories alongside regional campus values.34
- The brand education section provides embedded session recordings and links to download presentation decks hosted on SharePoint.56789
- Top-level navigation segments the site into The IU Brand, Channel Best Practices, Tools & Downloads, and Contacts & Requests.1011121314
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What I could not see
- Specific logo files, color codes, and typographic specs were not viewable in the captured pages without navigating deeper into visual identity subpages.
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