A website launch and re-branding strategy project
Project Statement: What would be the most effective way to relaunch her brand to better reach her target group of 21- 45 years old?
Team:
5 branding and marketing students in collaboration with Myroslava Vetokha
Timeframe:
1 month
Focus Area:
design (proposal documentation), research, graphic design
Utilizing Instagram and a new website, a proposal of launching fashion designer Myroslava Vetokha's re-branded fashion brand: Nonverse. Our campaign idea is to put more focus on 1 social media channel, Instagram in aid to help pushing for a brand relaunch. This is with the goal to push Myroslava's current following into her brand account to separate business content with her personal content. This is also done in hopes to get people become more aware that her products are for sale, which is where having a webshop will come in handy with her limited collections that she intends on selling in the long run.
Myroslava Vetokha is an Ukrainian fashion designer and fashion illustrator based in Denmark. The message she wants to convey through her garment designs are "Don’t forget who we are. Like the product for what it is (not caring for brand, status, etc.), express yourself as you are (who I am today)".
Brand DNA
By conducting a brand DNA analysis, it helped make a comprehensive exploration of the designer's fundamental brand elements, including values, mission, and unique design language. By delving into the core identity, the analysis ensures a shared understanding of the brand's essence and differentiators. This strengthens the alignment between the designer and the brand but also serves as a foundation for consistent messaging, design decisions, and strategic brand positioning.
360˚ Brand Identity Wheel
This exercise ensures a more authentic and nuanced representation of the brand, aligning it closely with the designer's artistic intent. The 360° brand identity wheel helped visualize a consistency across various brand touchpoints. It serves as a strategic tool for refining the brand narrative, enhancing its resonance with the target audience, and facilitating a cohesive and memorable brand identity that reflects the true essence of the designer's work.
Mood Board
Creating a moodboard firstly, serves as a visual reference that consolidates diverse inspirations, enabling a more focused and cohesive design direction. The moodboard helps communicate the intended aesthetic, tone, and emotion of the brand. Secondly, it aligns the brand image with the target audience's preferences and expectations, ensuring a more resonant and engaging visual identity. The moodboard also facilitates effective collaboration, as it allows all team members to visualize and contribute to the brand's visual narrative. Overall, creating a moodboard is a powerful tool in the early stages of brand development, fostering creativity, alignment, and a consistent visual identity for the brand.
Creating personas backed by analytics taken from Instagram allows for a data-driven understanding of the audience, providing insights into demographics, preferences, and behaviors directly from a platform where engagement is most active. This information becomes the foundation for crafting more accurate and targeted personas. By grounding personas in these analytics, our team want to tailor the branding and marketing strategies to align with the audience's preferences and optimize content for higher engagement.
Consumer Views
Analysing what current target group says/thinks about the brand.
Target Group Analytics
Analysing the metrics on Instagram regarding the target audience.
Persona
Creating a persona that provides a summary of the target group data.
Coming up with a strategy going forward for a brand relaunch came with 3 key elements: a relaunch of brand values, new brand name, and utilizing a benefits ladder to identify how it all ties together.
Relaunch Brand Values
Relaunching the brand values and clearly identifying the value, vision, and mission for Myroslava Veetokha solidifies a cohesive and purpose-driven narrative. Clear values guide decision-making and behavior for the long run of the brand and promotes a unified and consistent brand identity.
For target audiences, a well-defined vision and mission communicate the brand's long-term goals and purpose, establishing trust and loyalty. Additionally, this clarity enhances strategic alignment, helping the brand stay focused on its core objectives.
Relaunch Brand Name
Careful considerations of a new brand name are essential to help convey the intended meaning behind the brand. The name becomes a pivotal aspect of the brand's identity, creating a lasting first impression and facilitating brand recall.
In this process, the team wanted to ensure to align the chosen name with the brand's mission, vision, and core values, fostering a seamless connection between the brand and its audience. Through this consideration, a well-crafted brand name came from "conversation without words" to deciding on Nonverse. It not only distinguishes the brand in the market but also lays the foundation for a strong and meaningful brand narrative.
Benefits Ladder
Identifying and using a benefits ladder helps in articulating the value proposition in a structured manner, breaking down the brand features into tangible benefits that resonate with the target audience. This clarity is crucial for effective communication as it allows our team to highlight how the benefits can directly address customers' needs and pain points. In addition, using this model it helps creating persuasive marketing messages by emphasizing the value at different levels, from basic functionality to more profound emotional or aspirational benefits. Overall, the benefits ladder is a strategic tool that enhances communication, aligns marketing efforts with customer needs, and contributes to more effective and targeted messaging.
Looking at the new brand strategy, it puts Nonverse into a different group of competitors. Therefore analysing the potential compeititors was key to understanding where the brand will be in terms of the potential market.
Positioning Map
This model provides a clear visual representation of the potential brand's position relative to competitors in the market. This visual clarity facilitates easy identification of competitive advantages, differentiators, and potential gaps in the market. Position mapping helps to make informed decisions about pricing and overall strategy by understanding where they stand in relation to competitors. It also aids in identifying opportunities for differentiation and innovation. Additionally, it serves as a valuable communication tool, helping our teams align on strategic goals.
360˚ Brand Identity Wheel of Barbara I Gongini
In order to understanding competitor better, as a team we looked into a 360˚ brand identity wheel of Barbara I Gongini. It provided insights into identify their unique selling propositions and brand values. This knowledge enables us to understand what this brand is doing to differentiate itself effectively through highlighting the distinctive features. Additionally, analyzing the competitor's brand identity wheel allows for an understanding of visual and verbal elements, as well as potential gaps in the market.
Overall, this model helped in comparision to Nonverse's own 360˚ brand identity wheel contributes to a more comprehensive competitive analysis, facilitating strategic decision-making and helping our team understand how to make Nonverse position themselves more effectively in the market.
Embarking on this project was truly fulfilling, as it played a pivotal role in catapulting Myroslava's fashion brand into the limelight. Witnessing her journey from the conceptualization stage to the tangible implementation of our proposal was immensely rewarding. Our collaborative efforts have not only assisted in refining her brand identity but have also provided Myroslava with a strategic roadmap to effectively showcase her unique fashion offerings. This project became a catalyst for her brand's initiation and growth, and I am delighted to have contributed to this significant step in Myroslava's entrepreneurial journey.
Upon presenting our proposal, Myroslava demonstrated remarkable enthusiasm and commitment to realizing the envisioned changes. The incorporation of the majority of our ideas, with a specific emphasis on leveraging Instagram, underscores her dedication to amplifying the brand's presence in a visually-centric platform. Notably, she took the initiative to adapt the logo, aligning it seamlessly with the aesthetic of her latest collection. This proactive approach reflects Myroslava's responsiveness to utilizing the market trends we analysized and her commitment to evolving her brand in a dynamic and fashion-forward manner. It's rewarding to witness the positive impact our collaborative efforts have had on Myroslava's brand evolution, reinforcing the value of strategic planning and creative execution in the realm of fashion entrepreneurship.