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Exploring restrained packaging design vocabularies in brand.
We’ve been working on packaging, up north in Canada. And in exploring the idea of messaging, in the context of container expression — shelf presence — sometimes the nature of that expression speaks to something complex in the layering of the intention; but sometimes, simple is beautiful.
In our work for Procter & Gamble, which ranges over dozens of assignments over the past decade and more, access and attention in the micro retail realm is a matter of epiphany. The reach of P&G into the mind of consumers is well known; it extends beyond the conventional testing models by moving, literally, into the home — and the minds of its relationships. And, according to the new CEO of Procter & Gamble’s global planning is to add to that measure of community and connection by 548,000 new relationships every day.
How to do that? Step by step — measure by measure, person to person. Among other things, building their world, and the vast sea of relationships — design strategy playing in, laying the story. What we offer is the reach from story to brand, packaged. Sometimes the layering of that story is a complex building of many tiers of messaging, market comprehension, individualized attunement between brand conception, innovation and the consumer.
That layering is psychic; it’s a deeper connectivity, between brand, story, person. It’s between the place of meaningfulness and relevance, and if possible, a sense of resonance in singing the right song. So, to reference, Sebastian Professional reaches to the heart of self image in beauty making. And personal worth, and self impression — being, in a word to demography: “beauty junkies.” So to the complexity of the layering of messaging, that starting statement is framed here.
Aspiration:
Execution: But what more, to the conceptions of simplicity in message.
If it’s so simple, do consumers get it? According to the messaging of Izze, for example, growth has been “double-digit since their founding in 2002.”
To the references of others, that speak to the conception of simplicity in brand, visualization, integration of form — and typographic reach; here’s a sequence of ideas:
The top, to simplicity, brand, story:
Another classic, to discipline:
And another, to the spin of restraint:
A string, to message, quiet, calm:
And closing with another classic:
Sometimes, that idea of simple: straight to the message, the form, the alignment of character, it works beautifully.
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