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Naming, Logo & Brand Identity Design

We name companies. We design logos and identity systems.
We build the visible craft that turns a strategy into a brand people — and agents — actually recognize.
DRZP.ai is a brand identity design and naming agency. We create company names, product names, logos, visual identity systems, and the brand guidelines that make them scale. We’ve renamed legacy Fortune 500 companies (CenturyLink → Lumen), named and identified PE-backed scale-ups,  and designed brand systems for consumer and B2B categories worldwide.

What it is:

A great brand platform needs a great name, a great mark, and a visual system that makes both work everywhere — from a keynote stage to an AI-generated product thumbnail. Identity design is where brand strategy becomes brand reality.

This is the design craft half of the house. Strategy, platform, and positioning are built inside our B2B and B2C services — because they’re inseparable from how a brand goes to market. But the naming, the logo, the typography, the color, the iconography, the motion, and the guideline system that holds it all together live here.

Who it’s for:

Companies being founded, acquired, merged, or reinvented. Legacy brands that have outgrown their current identity — from Fortune 500 rebrands to PE-backed consolidation plays. Product teams launching a new brand inside a portfolio. Agencies or in-house teams that need an identity partner with international-award-level craft.

What’s included:

Company naming — category analysis, name generation, linguistic and trademark screening, final selection
Product and sub-brand naming
Logo design — primary mark, secondary marks, lockups
Visual identity systems — typography, color, iconography, imagery, motion, accessibility
Creative development — campaign concepting, integrated campaigns, creative platforms
Brand guidelines — the full manual that lets internal and external teams execute consistently
Brand rollout support — signage, templates, presentation systems, digital kits
Launch and activation creative — available through our B2B or B2C services

Our approach:

Naming and identity design at DRZP.ai is strategy-first, craft-obsessed, and built to scale. We’re particular about naming — names need to be distinct, ownable, defensible, and useful in both human and machine contexts. A name that sounds great in a boardroom but creates entity disambiguation problems inside AI knowledge graphs is a name that costs you.

On the visual side, the discipline is the same: craft that survives the move from brand book to real-world execution, across every surface the brand now has to live on — including the ones that didn’t exist five years ago.

Our identity work ladders up to the brand platform thinking we apply inside B2B and B2C engagements — the idea that a brand has to own an intellectual territory big enough to carry product, culture, thought leadership, and institutional authority. When identity and platform are designed together, the system compounds.

Proof:

CenturyLink → Lumen

A rebrand from a 90-year-old phone company to a cutting-edge technology brand. Name, mark, and identity system developed as part of an integrated transformation that delivered 87% brand awareness in two months and a 37% lift in consideration.

OutSystems, VertexOne, Utegration, Compellent, Wyotech, Halo Collar — additional brand reinventions and new-brand identity work across B2B technology and consumer categories.

Q&A

When should a company rebrand?

When the brand no longer matches the business. The real triggers are a founding, acquisition, merger, or major repositioning — moments when the old identity works against where you're headed. The wrong reason is boredom; the right reason is that the gap between what you are and what you look like has become a cost.

How long does a rebrand take?

A full naming-through-identity engagement typically runs a few months to a launch-ready system, with rollout continuing after. Naming alone moves faster; a complete system takes longer because the work isn't done when the logo is approved — it's done when your teams can execute it consistently. We'll scope a timeline against your actual launch date.

What’s the difference between brand strategy and brand identity?

Strategy is what the brand means and the territory it owns; identity is what makes that visible and recognizable. Strategy and platform live inside our B2B and B2C services; the name, logo, typography, color, motion, and guidelines live here. Designed together, the system compounds.

Do you do naming only?

Yes — naming can be a standalone engagement, from category analysis through trademark screening and final selection. That said, a name is stronger inside a visual system and brand platform. If you only need the name, we'll deliver the name.

How do you name a company?

It starts with the category, not a word list. We map the landscape, generate candidates against a clear brief, then screen hard for what matters: distinct, ownable, defensible, trademark-viable, and unambiguous in both human and machine contexts. A name that wins the boardroom but confuses AI knowledge graphs is a name that costs you later.

Does identity design need to consider AI and agents now?

Yes — it's no longer optional. Names need to be unambiguous inside AI knowledge graphs, and visual systems have to survive surfaces that didn't exist five years ago, from AI-generated thumbnails to agent-driven interfaces. An identity that only works for human eyes is already incomplete.