ADWEEK’s Post

🎨 I've always been fascinated by how portraiture can serve as a powerful tool for branding. Monarchs have mastered this for millennia. It's intriguing to witness this visual narrative of the king in our current historical moment. What are your thoughts? 🤔👑🖼️   #Branding #Portraiture #History #VisualNarrative #Art #Monarchy #Leadership #Marketing #CulturalIdentity   https://lnkd.in/e9cE8AEF

👩🎨 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐯𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐚𝐠𝐞: 𝐥𝐞𝐭'𝐬 𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐤 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐥𝐞𝐬 𝐈𝐈𝐈’𝐬 𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐭 💡 The British Royal Family has had its fair share of communication fails lately (a topic for another day, but certainly material for communication studies). Earlier this week, they unveiled the first official portrait of King Charles III, and social media exploded with opinions. 🤔 𝐒𝐨, 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐝𝐨 𝐰𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐤? There are two voices inside my head: 💭As an art enthusiast, I admire the technic and aesthetic qualities of the painting. It's a stunning piece, resolutely modern, quite unexpected from King Charles. 💭 As a communications professional, I can't help but notice that the message conveyed may not be the one intended by the royal family or the artist (at least based on his declarations). 𝐀𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐬𝐞 𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐬 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭'𝐬 𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐧𝐨𝐢𝐬𝐞 𝐨𝐧 𝐬𝐨𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐦𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐚. Plus, let's be honest, people do love to hate the royals. When the artist paints a red background as an extension of the military outfit and a traditional symbol of royalty, people see a bloodbath, a reference to the UK's imperialistic history… or even satanism. The butterfly, supposed to symbolize monarchy, metamorphosis, and ecological commitment, is interpreted by some as a conspiracy sign. 🤷♀️ 👉 This clash between original intent and public interpretation shows just how tricky communication can be, even for centuries-old institutions. It's a reminder that you should always consider how people with different backgrounds and cultures might perceive your creative work. This is particularly true in #Luxembourg. 𝐍𝐨𝐰, 𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐥 𝐦𝐞: 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐝𝐨 𝐘𝐎𝐔 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐤 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐩𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠? Beautiful, disruptive and modern piece of art? Or literally painting the King in a bad light?

Colour in our culture Purple Queen Elizabeth’s royal crown is lined with purple velvet. If you pop the word Bishop into Google it also comes up with quite a lot of purple too. Purple fabric was once very expensive. Since Roman times purple was used only by the very elite. It was a coveted colour and signalled wealth and power for centuries. It was difficult to produce artificially and had to be made from natural substances like the mucus of Mediterranean sea snails. Purple dye was so precious and the colour so elite, Julius Caesar decreed he was the only one who could wear it. Various other laws have existed around wearing purple. King Henry the VIII once prosecuted someone and as part of the case the person was accused of wearing purple illegally. Apparently people have died for wearing purple. It wasn’t until 1856 that purple dyes became easier to get because of a chemical invention by Henry Perkin. Even so some of these elite connotations still surround the colour purple. Purple often shows up in a spiritual context. I associate it with mystery, tarot cards and crystal shops as though it is connected to ‘the other side’. The historical scarcity of the colour purple may have resulted in it being seen as special and sacred. Historically it has been worn by the religious elite. Maybe this undercurrent of specialness means I also associate purple with magic. The Bank of Melbourne uses the colour purple and I think it works well for them to create a type of warm, approachable dignity. Very ‘Melbourne’. #consumerinsights #consumerbehavior #marketing #marketingandadvertising #branding #brandstrategy #branding #colour #design #culture #insights #research #semiotics

Breguet spent so long perfecting a watch commissioned in 1783 by the French Queen Marie Antoinette, that by the time it was finally completed both he and the queen were dead . Are you obsessing over something so much that you are preventing it from getting out into the world? The Breguet No. 160 was a marvel of mechanical complexity that took 44 years to complete. The watch kept track of the date, including leap years, had a power reserve indicator, chimed the hour, included a stopwatch and even incorporated a thermometer. The pocket watch was a masterpiece, yet the queen never held it in her hand. Is there an innovative action you want to take that are you possibly overthinking or overanalysing? The pursuit of excellence is wonderful, and we would not have come so far as humankind without people who stretch themselves beyond boundaries. However, we continually need to weigh up the pursuit of perfection with delivery of results. This is particularly tough for professionals such as lawyers and financial advisors who are paid to be the expert in the room. What steps could you take to push past your perfectionism and get your innovative project moving? If you're a legal professional and you're curious about how to take your creative thinking to the next level, join us on Tuesday 16 April for an inspirational 45-minute session with Hanne Kristiansen. This free webinar will be packed full of insights and outcomes you can apply straightaway. Details here: https://lnkd.in/dpAXWPyN #creativity #inertia #perfectionism #creativethinking #innovation #resistance #newlaw Creative ID Creativity Wake-Up

#4thofjuly American brand: Individualism & Exploration — In this painting, Tony de los Reyes presents an inverse flag, its canton of stars in the top right instead of the top left quadrant. De los Reyes was inspired by Herman Melville's novel Moby-Dick, considering it as a "psychic diagram of our enduring national obsessions." The work meditates on the American fantasy of individual success at any cost. The title and configuration of the stars not only refer to the US flag in 1851, the year Moby-Dick was published, but also to the belief of manifest destiny. California became the thirty-first state to be admitted to the Union in 1850, just prior to the novel's release. Instead of red stripes and blue canton, the white stars and stripes are atop ocean waves. Calling to mind the setting of the novel on Captain Ahab's whaling ship, the waves also represent the US's desire to continue to expand westward, looking toward the Pacific to extend its dominion.

Do you own classic cars, priceless works of art, first-edition books, antiquities, timepieces, or other heirlooms? If so, create a detailed list of your items with beneficiary designations and attach it to your estate documents. For example, Suzy gets the Rolls Royce Phantom while Johnny receives the Faberge Eggs. #estateplanning

Do you own classic cars, priceless works of art, first-edition books, antiquities, timepieces, or other heirlooms? If so, create a detailed list of your items with beneficiary designations and attach it to your estate documents. For example, Suzy gets the Rolls Royce Phantom while Johnny receives the Faberge Eggs. #estateplanning