Category: branding & visual communication
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Lefties Labelling with Love: Pinterest Gallery
There may be devil in the detail but the rewards will definitely come well before heaven. Value retailing continues to expand its expertise and grow competence in areas traditionally well outside its remit. See the image board: Click below: RetailMeaning Pinterest: An inspirational showcase of brand new, retro, and vintage shop designs, visual displays &…
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Nike+Club: Running on Emotion
Find your way to the top storey of Nike on Oxford Street and find the Nike+ Club, a haven for all things feminine. As the tourist throng recedes floor by floor the atmosphere here is rarified, intimate and inviting. Nike leads the field in womens fitness and time spent here re-enforces not just the…
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Has “product” become a dirty word in your business?
“When to tell & when to sell!” Now there’s a question that has become hugely complex with the advent of the internet and social media. Indeed it could very well be argued that they are very much part of the same process, with every word told about a brand identity and proposition a step…
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Brand Enhanced: Lefties Labelling with Love
There may be devil in the detail but the rewards will definitely come well before heaven. Value retailing continues to expand its expertise and grow competence in areas traditionally well outside its remit. Lefties leads the Iberian pack with expert enhancements that press all the added-value buttons, seams, adornments, tickets and labels. Key to…
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Left of Centre Fashion: The Value of Digital Communication
Not so long ago Lefties was at the periphery of the Inditex empire, viewed generally as an outlet for the unsellable assortment cast down from Zara, Stradivarius and the like. The poor relation, with a poor proposition for the poorer end of the fashion market. Now Lefties is at the vanguard of value fashion,…
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Carpe Diem: Seize every Nike opportunity
Think football, think World Cup, think leary overweight men in replica kits? Think again, think high technology fitness wear, think the colours of the world’s most famous football teams as you’ve never seen them before; think Nike World Cup, think opportunity and think innovation. Irrespective of the World Cup feeding frenzy Nike has projected…
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Stand & Stare: Pull & Bear Take to the Road
The anti-corporate momentum builds… as recognised brands balance the safety of recognition and loyalty with the excitement of individual assortments, personal enhancements and store environments that look like they come off the back of a lorry rather than the end of the corporate conveyer belt. Pull & Bear, from the biggest brand house about,…
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Ladies fashion: always the “black-widow spider” for menswear?
Do you have the problem of balancing the proposition of mens and ladies fashion? Fashion credentials do not always translate easily between genders. Particularly when a dominant female perception has been built for many years, the move to menswear can be difficult and delicate to position. Ironically the stronger the female brand, the more successful…
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Power Player: Reebok Reefreshed, Reenergised
Hot on the Heels of Athleta, Reebok unveils its urban equivalent… A hub for staying fit and fired in the hectic haze of modern life. the collection is focused and fashionable but overall highly functional for the street, the gym or the court, building on Reeboks heritage as one of the pioneers of…
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John Lewis: Never Standing Still – A Story Never Knowingly Undertold
Celebrating in style, John Lewis pulls out all the stops as it collaborates and coordinates its way through its Never Standing Still Campaign marking 150 years of the famous retailer. Across blogs, twitter, facebook, instagram and pinterest content has been created and developed with suppliers and partners, and from its loyal legions of shoppers…
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