Can you see yourself in today’s brands or products?

Published by on september 20, 2005 at 9:29 f m


Mirrors have always been part of our lives, first as water and later as manufactured products from the 16th century on. Back then, people were only too happy to pay for the privilege of seeing themselves; the better they could see themselves, the more they paid. The same is true for today’s brands. Customers pay to see themselves in the brands they buy. This photo illustrates this well: when people at the local cafe see something they can relate to, it becomes part of the brand mirror. It gives them something interesting to talk about. The question is: can they find something to relate to at a bank? How can you and your customers be ONE with today’s brands and products?

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  1. [...] The old saying that a photo says more than thousand words, will live BUT it is so to fake photos today digitally that people don’t trust them as much as before. This is also to reason for why amateur photos are growing strongly (we believe more in them). I believe that we like photos where we can se our self and when we see ourselves we spread the word (from me to you), in the commercial world we call it storytelling. For a photographer it means that work has change from making the picture for the thousand words to create a mirror. [...]

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