Learning Cultural Strategy for Design
39mGeneral2018-02-14
Authors

Gerard Crichlow
Cultural Strategist
Course details
The interaction between culture, people, and trends is the driving force behind influential brands. Cultural strategy reveals how and why consumers think, act, and feel-now and in the future. This course is for anyone who wants to harness their creative abilities to shape brands, and ensure that those brands not only participate in the cultural zeitgeist, but also contribute to it. In this course, Gerard Crichlow discusses the four truths of purpose-led brands. He helps strategy teams get to a creative idea, summarize their findings, and communicate those findings to a creative team. He wraps up the course with a review of a campaign ecosystem done well.
Skills covered
Brand ManagementMarketingLearning
Concepts
0. Introduction
- 01 - Welcome
- 02 - Designing for cultural strategy
1. Strategic Proposition
- 03 - Four truths - Category, company, consumer, and culture
- 04 - Category
- 05 - Company
- 06 - Consumer
- 07 - Culture
- 08 - Tension
- 09 - Getting to a proposition
2. Getting to a Creative Idea
- 10 - Culturally model the territory - People, platforms, and publishers
3. Building a Communications Plan
- 11 - Building an integrated comms plan - Storytelling, storybuilding, and actions
- 12 - The brief
4. Seeding the Idea in Culture
- 13 - Testing the creative idea within culture
5. Build Your Ecosystem - Define the Role Each Channel Plays
- 14 - Comms ecosystem