Maarten and Thom, aka BrandBros, are two close friends who started a brand agency from a deep-rooted belief that small businesses with big ideas deserve a big brand.
After more than 10 years of designing for large (profitable) companies, their creative hands were itching to work on more meaningful projects.
If you know what you want, these guys will help you stand out with a recognizable visual identity and convince your target audience with a slick website. And, since they were the ones who built the new MOYU website, we can vouch for that firsthand.
By taking a few steps back, we can take an immediate leap forward.
We know that Maarten & Thom are huge fans of MOYU. And that has not changed, even after many frustrating hours of working on our high-demand animation-rich website.
We also know they have many notebooks of all types and sizes sitting around the office and homes. Some even end up being given away as presents for friends and family.
But the moment their clients started getting curious about the notebooks was when they finally decided to create their own unique BrandBros covers. Though to be completely honest, it might have been our MOYU brand guardian dropping hints for several months straight. Who is to tell?
Bottom line, they took a MOYU and turned it into a one-of-a-kind business gift for their clients that shows off their creative design skills.
Ultimately, it took almost the same time for this creative duo to design their own notebook covers as it did to design and build the whole MOYU website. You know how it goes: sometimes when you are a successful agency, your branding and marketing end up at the back of the line. Or, in this case, you might also say that "brilliance takes time" (if it's not someone's quote, I hereby claim it).
This notebook has hands down the coolest customized cover in the history of MOYU covers. Come to think of it. We might have somewhat of a love bias for the guys who developed the very template used to personalize our notebook covers.
"Caution: Shocking Ideas" notebooks are custom-designed inside and out with a one-of-a-kind twist: a custom BrandBros code to promote the notebook. It's a personal affiliate link we create for MOYU ambassadors that gives them a commission for each notebook sold upon their recommendation.
While most use the codes to promote MOYU on their digital channels, BrandBros added it to their already brilliant cover, making our already proud brand guardian (who suggested nothing) even more proud.
“As creatives we sketch on a daily basis. The result is that we throw away 10+ traditional notebooks a year, simply because we run through the pages so quickly. Finally this is a thing of the past, because we discovered MOYU and now have our very own custom stone paper notebooks. 10/10!”