Brands as Libraries

I often think and write about the importance of “world building” in today’s mixed-media reality: Brands have more control than ever over where and how consumers experience their point of view, from digital feeds and properties to packaging design and retail merchandising. And with that comes many new opportunities to build emotional texture.

Consider modern brand building. In an age where a brand can be built in days or destroyed in hours, the synthesised strategist knows how to combine:

• Traditional brand architecture with meme theory

• Cultural anthropology with real-time data analysis

• Community dynamics with performance marketing

• Long-term brand building with short-term cultural re

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Brands, at their best, can be deeply aspirational drivers of humanity. They are optimistic creative objects, which make them among the best vehicles for human self-determination that we have, especially as other vehicles for meaning-making and impact decline in importance