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WHAT IS VISUAL MARKETING

 WHAT IS VISUAL MARKETING

Visual marketing is the discipline studying the relationship between an object, the context it is placed in and its relevant image. Representing a disciplinary link between economy, visual perception laws and cognitive psychology, the subject mainly applies to businesses such as fashion and design. As a key component of modern marketing, visual marketing focuses on studying and analyzing how images can be used to make objects the center of visual communication. The intent is that the product and its visual communication therefore become strategically linked and inseparable and their fusion is what reaches out to people, engages them and defines their choices .

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Not to be confused with visual merchandising, that is one of its facets and more about retail spaces; here, Marketing gets customers in the door. Once inside, merchandising takes over-affecting placement of products, signage, display materials, ambiance and employee staffing. Harnessing the power of images and visuals can make a marketing plan more powerful and more memorable. Images — when done deftly - can turn concepts and intangible things into something more concrete influencing the perception of the intended viewer. That helps people envision a brand and its message in their mind's eye — and remember it when it comes time to buy. Visual marketing can be a part of every aspect of the Communication Mix. Marketing persuades consumer's buying behaviour and Visual Marketing enhances that by factors of recall, memory and identity. Growing trends in the usage of picture based websites and social networking platforms like Pinterest, Instagram, Tumblr, Timeline feature of Facebook justifies the fact that people want to believe what they see, and therefore, need for Visual Marketing,

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Visual marketing includes all visual cues like logo, signage, sales tools, vehicles, uniforms, right to your Advertisements, Brochures, Informational DVDs, Websites, everything that meets the Public Eye.

HISTORY

The roots of this way of interpreting objects lie in Susan Sontag's essay Notes on "Camp", written back in the 1960s; the author points out that objects

are not interesting in themselves but rather in the way they are represented, being the result of a series of considerations that touch upon the object's history, its symbolism, its manifestation and realization in the eyes of the beholder. As it developed, visual marketing highlighted the masking of an object, which instead of just being a product, turns into the star of its own

production", so it changes from itself into something else, at the precise

moment it enters the market. According to Paolo Schianchi, architect and designer, an Italian visual marketing academic:

"Objects are: real, as what we see; visible - what they are made from; perfect - their classic identity, communication - their bond with taste; form and function - container and content; emotion - the story they can evoke; critical operation - the language that consecrates and exposes it; industrial operation - making them active and productive; image - the what and the how; anonymous - merely because it exits “ All of these components - that belong to and define an objects from the viewpoint of the market and of the consumer - are the research and planning nuances that encompass the scope of visual marketing. So,

this branch" acts on several levels of the design of an object: the idea ; the communication and in the end, the exhibition - in a trade fair, in a

showroom and at other events." In the words of Umberto Galimberti, Italian philosopher and psychoanalyst "Even when there is no lack of money, the desire – now defined by fashion

- does not refer so much to objects as to the myths surrounding them, and often the only thing being consumed is the myth itself......"

This concept is taken up again by Gillo Dorfles in his book "Il feticcio quotidiano": " This is why I believe I can say that it is now possible to talk about a new ergonomic standard, not connected to the height of a desk or to the pneumatic quality of padding but to the creation of that "mythical image”

that a design object must present if it is really right for the purpose it was designed for ".. The mythology that covers objects to the point of becoming one with them, is decoded, in this branch through the study of various visual and verbal languages

belonging to the groups of interest. So visual marketing draws the attention away from traditional targets to focus on “...interest groups that are no longer broken down by age, gender,

education or any other personal records and social contexts but by type of involvement, whether it be sports, personal, cultural, etc. All these groups

contain visual, verbal, sound, gesture, olfactory and formal codes that they refer to and use to communicate...”

So, the expressive group behaviours lie behind the new sub-alphabets whose decoding can be used to create direct marketing methods with the group itself.

One of the people inspiring this almost anthropological approach is Marc Augé, who in his book "Le temps en ruines” notes that the world where image

is omnipresent requires the reality to be reflected in its image...”. Paolo Schianchi's research underscored how the act of putting together the image of the reality generated by each interest group is composed of language sets made of words, sounds, images, smells and shapes that give rise to various sub-alphabets when combined differently. If correctly decoded, these expressive elements become the means to get in touch with a group and direct a message inside it

This aspect of visual marketing helps to create targeted marketing campaigns that go straight to the users' emotions and representations of reality, using

their own expressive language The roots of this principle lie in Vilém Flusser's "Into the universe of technical images”, where he claims: “... all ethics, all ontology, all epistemology will be excluded from the pictures, and it will become meaningless to ask whether something good or bad, real or artificial, true or false, or even what it means. The only remaining question is what I can experience...". This is how the author introduced the concept of the expressive emotion at the origin

of visual and verbal sub-alphabets, which belong to each individual at the moment they become part of an interest group. Visual marketing has taken these concepts onboard and to communicate a product to a group it decodes their emotional and individual languages, because we now know that everyone lives“... a double life, where each person is the representation of themselves, becoming inseparable from the physical person, as objects are from their image...” Visual Marketing consultants plan around this, moving from the design of the object to its visual display, and in so doing creating the mythology around it. Theories on visual marketing have been developed by author and professor in Consumer Science, Michel Wedel.

REFERENCES

  • Susan Sontag, Notes on "Camp". Partisan Review 1964 Michel Wedel-Rik Peters, Visual marketing, Psychology Press, September 2007
  • P. Schianchi, Verso il bagno Camp. Il Sole 24 Ore Business Media, 2008
  • Umberto Galimberti, I miti del nostro tempo, Feltrinelli 2009
  • Paolo Schianchi, Visual marketing. L'immagine fotografica, in CE International n. 226, Il Sole 24 Ore Business Media 2009
  • R. Pieters, M. Wedel, Goal Control of Visual Attention to Advertising: The Yarbus Implication, in Journal of Consumer Research no. 34, August 2007, pages 224-233
  • R. Van der Lans, R. Pieters, M. Wedel, Competitive Brand Salience, Marketing Science, 27, 2008
  • M. Wedel R. Pieters, Eye Tracking for Visual Marketing, Now publishers Inc, 2008
  • P. Schianchi, Nuvole di estetica e prodotto, ISRE Edizioni Salesiane, year XVII, no. 1, 2010
  • P. Schianchi, Visual Marketing, in B & A No. 247, Il Sole 24 Ore, 2011
  • D.Langton and A. Campbell, Visual Marketing. 99 proven ways for small business to market with images and design. WILEY John Wiley & Sons inc., Hoboken, New Jersey, 2011
  • P. Schianchi, L'immagine è un oggetto. Fondamenti di visual marketing con storytelling, libreriauniversitaria.it edizioni, Padova 2013.

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