Sunday, 20 October 2013

Visual Codes: Logo Analysis, Brand Analysis and Brand Equation

17th October 2013

Exploring brands

LUXURY:

Heritage - Louis Vuitton
Purity - Calvin Klein
Wit - Paul Smith
Sensuality - Dolce and Gabbana 

Heritage - Louis Vuitton
- Ancestry  - Tradition  - Progenitor  - Legacy  - Lineage  
- Provenance

LV is one of the oldest fashion houses established in 1854
Print is instantly recognisable
Famous for luxury travel goods - classic, traditional yet constantly modernising and contemporising e.g. the Steven Sprouse prints
LV continues to build its empire based on the heritage of the brand. 

Purity - Calvin Klein
- Simplicity  - Artistic  - Elegant  - Classical  - Graceful    
- Immaculacy

Calvin Klein is simple with letterforms as a logo that express a certain security for consumers - brand handwriting is that of purity.
Known best for underwear and has a visual resembelance to classical Greek gods
Uses celebrity endorsement in adverts although the photography speaks for itself.

Wit - Paul Smith
- Playfulness  - Adroitness  - Raillery  - Guile  - Repartee  
- Badinage

Logo drawn by a friend in the 1980's
Brand which has become an inherent part of our national identity
Modern twist on tailoring - instantly recognisable stripes
Stripe is versitile and applied to almost anything: cameras/furniture/wallets/footballs

Sensuality - Dolce and Gabanna
- Physically  -Passion  - Indulgence  - Seduction  
- Suggestiveness  - Decadence

D&G logo is simple with the initials of two surnames
Sex is never far away from the selling of the brand
Instantly recognisable - logo on most items e.g. hats
Strongly used palette of colours: always black, white and gold or dark red also signature animal prints such as zebra and leopard

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