Today consumer wants to feel unique, at least a Happy Few. EXPERIENCE has become the IT-word in our consumerist societies: be the happy fews to have the limited edition product, to live a specific event, to go to an ephemeral venue...We're not talking about Standardization anymore, but Customization, Bespoke, Masstige and Überpremium! Personal luxury has come to experiencing then!
How do brands take this hard trend into consideration and keep building their relationship with the consumer through experiential marketing? The purpose of this blog is to highlight the brand initiatives, past or current, that go that way and propose privileged experiences to their targets. The "I wanna be a happy few" section of this blog is dedicated to this issue.
However, feeling a new trend implies inceasingly paying attention to the world. This is why a second section named "Our world at a glance" comes as food for thought.
I'm a French girl in her thirties, having lived in Sydney, Australia, and Copenhagen, Denmark, those last years now back home.
During four years, I've worked as a Project Manager & Consultant in Corporate Branding in a leading branding & design agency. I was part of a fantastic team dedicated to the AIR FRANCE KLM brand. That's where I've done my basic training. That's where I've begun working with passion.
Living abroad and meeting creative professionals from the whole world through the Creative Professionals Worldwide club I set up, my eyes wide-opened, passion has continued to grow unceasingly.
I'm living in this industry, but this industry is also living in me: more than ever curiosity has become my key feature. The whole world around us is inspiring: just stop middle of the street, look around, observe the people, the billboards, the newspapers, the objects and start making connexions between things, start being creative. I can't help doing so. That's why I've become such a blogger.
French "Logorama" movie goes to Hollywood!!This is the latest buzz in town! In Paris, for sure!
Logorama is the first animated movie created by French designers H5 (H5 (François Alaux, Hervé de Crécy, Ludovic Houplain) in 2009. Already known for its originality (the movie is entirely based on 2500 logtypes: the city, the characters...) and the many festivals it was nominated to (Festival de Cannes, Sundance Film Festival, etc), today's buzz is about its nomination to the Oscars!! But more than that, about how the American will officially react to their controversy movie. Controversy because the point of the movie is about denoncing the consumer society, which is often associated to the American way of living? Because American lw is not that free with using brands in term of rights? To be continued in a few days...
For the moment, it's the production company Autour de Minuit' and the authors's will not to broadcast the full version. SO keep an eye on the web after the Oscars ceremony, the full version might become available.
To better know the H5, click here. For the interview of the H5 about their being nominated to the Oscars, click here (French language only). To see a bit of the movie, click here or here.
Francois Alaux, Herve de Crecy & Ludovic Houplain aka H5.