Let’s be honest.
No one is in business to deliver a compelling user-experience,
engage a consumer or weigh in on the competition with a heavy hitting identity.
Business is pretty well driven by two factors:
Passion and Profit.
And God only knows which
of the two takes precedence. All I know is that companies have been enjoying a healthy
dose of profit as a direct result of my passion for over 20 years. It just so happens that
dynamic user-experiences, consumer engagements and corporate identities have been the
means to that end. And since we’re on the subject, we should be clear on a couple of other matters.
Creative can’t handle commerce if it isn’t preceded by good Strategy. “Pretty” functions
well on a museum wall, but it won’t sell much more than a few coffee table books.
“Cool” doesn’t sell either, but it gets passed around like an unwanted Christmas tree ornament.
Excellent creative follows excellent strategy.
I think that’s... pretty cool.