New Year Branding Style with AI: Logo and Design
24.12.2025
2 mins readIntroduction
The New Year branding style is not just decorations for the sake of decorations. It's a tool that helps a brand stand out in the most competitive season of the year. In December, visuals decide faster than text: a user either stops to look or scrolls past.
In 2025, creating a seasonal style manually is time-consuming and expensive. AI allows you to speed up the process significantly — provided that you use it as a tool, not as a generator of random images.
This guide provides a step-by-step approach to creating a New Year branding style and ready-made prompts for popular AI tools that can be applied right away.
Content
- What is a New Year branding style and why is it needed for a brand
- Preparation: what data does AI need
- New Year logo: how to adapt, not break
- Color palette: seasonal accents without losing brand identity
- Banners and digital visuals: scaling the style
- Packaging and merchandise: how to use AI for physical media
- Popular AI tools for New Year branding
- Ready-made prompts for each tool
- Common mistakes when working with AI
- Conclusion
What is a New Year branding style and why is it needed for a brand
The New Year branding style is a temporary visual adaptation of a brand for the holiday season. It is used in advertising, on the website, in social media, packaging, and merchandise.
A good seasonal style:
- enhances emotion;
- does not destroy identity;
- remains recognizable without a logo.
AI is useful here as an accelerator — it allows you to quickly create dozens of options and choose the best one.
Preparation: what data does AI need
Before generating visuals, it's important to capture the input:
- existing logo;
- brand colors (HEX);
- brand character (strict / friendly / premium);
- acceptable level of festivity;
- list of media (banners, packaging, merchandise).
Without this, AI creates a beautiful but useless visual.
New Year logo: how to adapt, not break
AI is used only for adapting the logo, not for replacing it.
Acceptable:
- add winter glow;
- soft shadows;
- seasonal accents.
Unacceptable:
- changing the shape of the mark;
- changing the main color;
- overloading with details.
Color palette: seasonal accents without losing brand identity
AI helps to select additional shades, but the basic palette remains unchanged.
The best approach:
- one main brand color;
- 1-2 festive accent colors;
- neutral background.
Banners and digital visuals: scaling the style
AI allows for quickly creating an entire visual line: website, social media, email, advertising. One style — dozens of formats.
Packaging and merchandise: how to use AI for physical media
AI is excellent for concepts: prints, illustrations, patterns.
Final layouts for printing are always refined manually.
Popular AI tools for New Year branding
Looka and Brandmark are used for logos and identity.
Khroma and Coolors are used for color solutions.
Midjourney, DALL·E, and Adobe Firefly are used for banners and visuals.
Recraft and Kittl are used for packaging and merchandise.
Canva with AI features is used for quick launches of everything at once.
Ready-made prompts for each tool
Looka / Brandmark (logo)
Prompt:
Create a Christmas seasonal version of an existing brand logo.
Keep the original logo shape, proportions and main colors.
Add minimal winter elements such as soft glow, light snow texture or festive accents.
Clean, modern, brand-safe design.
Use for: seasonal logo versions for the website and social media.
Khroma / Coolors (color palette)
Prompt:
Generate a Christmas color palette based on the existing brand color #HEX.
Add 1-2 festive accent colors suitable for digital banners and packaging.
Keep the palette minimal and professional.
Use for: selecting accent colors.
Midjourney (key visuals)
Prompt:
Christmas brand visual for a modern company, minimal festive style,
soft winter lighting, premium look, no cartoon elements,
clean background, suitable for marketing banner, brand colors preserved
Use for: hero banners and atmospheric images.
DALL·E (banners and covers)
Prompt:
Create a clean Christmas marketing banner for a brand.
Minimal holiday elements, soft light, modern composition.
No text, no logos, neutral background for further branding.
Use for: commercial banners and covers.
Adobe Firefly (brand-safe visuals)
Prompt:
Generate a brand-safe Christmas background for marketing use.
Minimal festive elements, professional style, suitable for corporate branding.
Use for: advertising, presentations, websites.
Recraft (packaging and prints)
Prompt:
Create a vector Christmas illustration for brand packaging.
Flat style, minimal festive elements, scalable for print and merchandise.
Use for: packaging, shoppers, stickers.
Kittl (merch and typography)
Prompt:
Design a Christmas-themed typography layout for merchandise.
Clean, modern, suitable for hoodie or tote bag print.
Use for: hoodies, t-shirts, accessories.
Canva (quick launch)
Prompt:
Create a Christmas marketing design kit for a brand:
banners, social media posts, email header, minimal festive style.
Use for: quick scaling without a designer.
Common mistakes when working with AI
- complete replacement of brand colors;
- too much holiday decor;
- different styles for different channels;
- lack of a unified style description;
- publication without manual review.
AI enhances structure. If there is no structure, it enhances chaos.
Conclusion
AI is the best tool for creating a New Year branding style when speed, scale, and budget control are important. But strategy, brand logic, and final decisions always remain with humans.
“Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.”
— Steve Jobs
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