Wednesday, 9 October 2013

IKEA: Research Plan

Branding & Identity:

Primary
- test the font against images (make mini publication to ask people about brand)
- try different fonts
- visit store - outside and inside (same to catalogue photos?)
- print onto card like packaging

Secondary
- catalogue images and layout
- find designers
- names of products - background
- history
- branding books - global image
- packaging - materials and style


Ideals:

Primary
- talk to people on blogs
- visual merchandise - interview about lay out and styling / photography

Secondary
- theoretical books on branding and image identity
- advertising image of home life

Hyperreality:

Primary
- go round the store - experience and photograph

Secondary
- theoretical books on hyper reality
- photography sets theory
- models in advertising

Advertisements:

Primary
- generate own adverts

Secondary
- analyse recent ad campaigns - mother
- audience and settings - couples/families/small spaces
- social/cultural factors

Do it Yourself:

Primary
- build a product

Secondary
- theory of self-esteem and sense of achievement in making something
- mass production process of flat pack


The Store:

Primary
- photograph set ups
- way finding

Secondary
- interior design layout - create pace
- lighting
- circulation and direction
- visual merchandise
- systems effect on the self esteem and consumption
- food stops - purpose

Marketing:

Primary
- contact stores outside of Britain
- contact people round the world who buy at Ikea

Secondary
- there adaptation to other markets and cultures

Online:

Primary
- sign up to blogs
- message users

Secondary
- look at online networking
- how they interact
- presence


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