CREATIVE DESIGN FOR CONTEMPORARY CULTURE
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Here we share our insights and workings with contemporary culture as it relates to design and branding across many mediums and industries.
The Refreshing Power of Positivity: Improving the Customer Brand Experience
In 2023, the University of Pennsylvania found that people are more likely to remember and engage with brands that evoke positive feelings. This means that we’re more likely to buy a product if we associate it with good vibes… and we’re done with the downers and the bummer blah blahs. So – snap out of it
Why Business, Branding, and Family Do Not Mix: Keep the Family out of It
Bringing up business and branding at the family dinner table creates the potential for disaster. With everyone eager to offer their opinions and inexperience, you’ll quickly discover that professional help is what your business needs.
Conjunction Junction – Words Have Function: Why Your Business Content Matters
With so much online information consumption and transactions, content is one of the most integral parts of the consumer experience. And it’s true – just like you, consumers value accurate, usable, and current information.
Beyond the Logo: Create an EBD Experience
Environmental Branding Design goes beyond just your physical space. It's a strategic approach that weaves your brand into every customer touchpoint. Incorporate the senses and your business’ personality to engage your customers and increase loyalty.
It’s All About the Real Deal: Value-Added Marketing for Today’s Consumers
Today’s consumers now consider a company's social and environmental impact, which highlights the growing importance of aligning brand values with consumer beliefs. To thrive in our new era, brands must prioritize a customer-centric approach built on a foundation of shared values.
Design Trends for 2024
This year is all about personality and personalization. We’re jumping out of the mundane and designing to engage interest, activate emotion, and ignite the senses. There’s no more time for humdrum. Instead we’re ready for relatable, meaningful, engaged experience that’s right for us..
The High Co$t of Bad Design
Studies show that 52% of consumers will not return to your store if they do not like your aesthetics, and 93% of purchasing decisions are visually-based. Still, a lot of businesses think that design is too expensive, not in the budget, or simply not important.
Consumers, Colors and Dollar$
Color matters and just like words, color delivers messages to our brain and can impact our behaviors and perceptions. Studies show that color is also a factor in our purchasing choices.
Enter the Power of the Queenager Market
Queenagers, the 45+ years old women control who are behind 95% of all household spending deserve more than just wrinkle cream.
Surviving and Thriving During a Recession
Businesses must support their brands and marketing efforts – especially during a recession because your company’s success depends on it.
Design Trends for 2023
Design trends for 2023 for brands, websites, and graphics include color, futurism, minimalistic packaging, neumorphism, solid ux, typography, pagination, and branding visuals.
Good Website Design Prevents Money Loss
Your website is most important right now because it is your storefront. Here’s a quick checklist so you can inventory your website and avoid costly mistakes.
Why a Big Fart Matters to Your Marketing
Surprised? Of course you are. Why would a company send a fart joke to their target audience? The creative behind surprise marketing that works.
Action Branding: Making Values Legit
In the modern marketplace, consumers are increasingly looking for businesses to practice what they preach by doing, not just saying.
The Shoes You Wear
The reality is – we’ve all been cancelled. Social thought is changing. Enter the new wave of accountability culture. We are obliged to take responsibility for our actions and words. If you put it out there, via social media or other venues, you better have the facts, Jack.
The New(er) You
Is it time to change your personal or business brand? Standing out in a crowd is more than demanding consumer attention, it’s about being you and being an original.
Is It Time to Redesign?
Websites, like printed materials, need to be refreshed from time to time because they need to stay relevant to business goals, customer culture shifts, and technology.