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ADVERTISING CONCEPT INTO SHOP WINDOW (and window display)

The ad campaign made for ATL media (TV, radio, cable, streaming services, or even social media), must be implemented as it is, no matter what, into the shop windows. The problem might be (if there is any) that all advertising communication was planned, designed, and conceived for a large mass of people.

One of nine ad pieces for the Diesel jeanswear campaign (2005). One for each jean tag, each jean one different story, but all with that vintage atmosphere. In this case the jean Moorix. It was supposed that if you bought one pair of jeans, then you got the postal card with it.

BTL communication instruments allow you to get a chance to capture that very specific target that has become into your exceptional shopper, which could mean that you have the unique opportunity to put a spell, not only in your shrunk group of archetype costumers but over the ones that are not clients yet and are very similar to them.

Another postal card from the same Diesel ad campaign (2005), plus the jean tag on top.

Now, the big question is: How do I put all the ad campaign concept into the shop window?

Well, first as always, you have to look at the picture and realize and take note of what you see in that advertising photo:

  • A list of all representative elements.
  • The copy (written text that is to be printed, or text that is intended to help with the sale of a product).*(https://dictionary.cambridge.org/es/diccionario/ingles/)
  • The color palette.
  • The typography if there is one.
  • and finally the «leitmotiv» (of course is not referred to a musical piece but the symbols, signs, signals or decorative patterns and textures).

And then naturally, the specific publicity brief, the brand book, and the visual merchandising guidelines must be known and read. But before you run with the brief, is important to try to pick up the main concept from the ad without any clue and take some notes about the feelings, insights, and anything that cross your mind when you «watch» that advertise. Then you should read the brief and compare them.

«I LIKE MY MEN SMELLY! – Moorix». The copy for the jeanswear ad campaign from Diesel.
All current elements as a backing (the banner), foreground (the «Moorix» stickers) and the midsection (the bath and mannequins).

The point where your notes and the brief intercept is the key to start developing a true and real concept for the window shop. That concept is aligned with the ad and must have the same feeling (or flow) and the same foci (key elements), with the plus of a storyline that is very closer to the real and specific costumer that is part (client) of that store and by all means the product.

Do you remember the time at primary school when you learn about set theory? Here is the same mechanism, the common elements you get between your notes and the brief, are the elements you must use into the window. By doing this you guarantee that your proposal is flanked within the main communication objectives.

«You’ve never looked so good – Ronhar». The copy for this jeanswear ad campaign from Diesel (2005). All current elements as a backing (the banner), foreground (the «Ronhar» sticker) and the midsection (the vanity set, «ancient» curlers and mannequins).

This path is possible when you are «the man» (or «the girl») who decides anything for the shop windows in a store chain, and certainly, there are a lot of topics at this point hereinafter that we will see later. Things could be a little bit more complicated when you are not «the man» and you have to follow some visual merchandising guidelines.

Pages from Sanrio´s Fall Display Kit- 2004. Guidelines are just that: a guide!!! It does not mean that you have to do only and «exactly» what they say, or perhaps less.
You have to improve your own shop window using that guide even if it has a different shape or whatever the window is. The worst nightmare for a visual merchandiser: To make one different guideline for each store!!!

Those V.M. guidelines, that were made by «the man» become your handcuffs and shackles, and consequently, you have to blow up your mind and become immensely more creative. Evidently being «more creative» depends on your grade of excitement for overachieving on became the badass master of all chain of stores (which occurs once in a blue moon). On the other hand, you could do what the guidelines state and go down in flames by just doing nothing (or almost) but those things that were written in the guidelines. But as it was said: The ball is in your court. Which one do you decide to be? The badass? or Mr. Nobody?

Because now you are trapped between requirements and parameters that you have to fulfill and also trapped by the specific architecture from your store (things that you can not change), all those things are the reasons on which you have to rise your creativity to the stratosphere.

Here we have an example of some pieces from the proposal made by the agency for the PAPÁ ad campaign addressed to DIMARCOS, a multi-brand chain store. The agency: Papel Digital S.A.S.

Just think about it: Imagine that you are «the man» and have to write down the guidelines for a specific window display you have designed. So you just design one concept that has to be displayed in many stores around the world or around your country or in many places in your city. Those stores have different shapes, various sizes, peculiar layouts, diverse architecture, unlike physical and atmospheric conditions, and so on. Now you can wonder:

How long would it take to design distinctive windows displays for an almost infinite number of different shop windows? It could take a veritably a huge amount of time and energy. Notwithstanding it would be possible to some extent, that is not constructive or prolific in terms of economics and health.

This was the draft for the three types of shop windows. With a full enhancement keeping the budget out of mind, in the meantime. Papá campaign for Dimarcos, a multi-brand chain fashion stores in Colombia-South América. By: Elit Visual S.A.S.

Now that you have embraced the main concept and have a clear idea that would become into a story it is time to land it. If you work for a franchise surely they will send you some elements like banners and stickers, and probably some props that will be useful. So you have to complement the shop window as it was a scene from that story (I think it truly is). And the window would be the stage.

In addition to it, you must show a clever move with the budget just to maximize the performance, if you have the skills and permissions to do it.

Finally the approved + a final adjustment.

The next step is to get the ball rolling, which is not easier than it seems to be. Because in this step you have to achieve that your result gets the most proximal to the draft you just presented. Every designer knows the big difference between a computer design and a final real-life design. Especially all color aspects (the color palette), what is known as RGB and CMYK color modes. Also the big difference between proportions and scale from all props and of course, the How to.

Those mistakes are more common than you think, particularly in rookie designers:

  • Asking for more elements than the real needed.
  • Bigger/smaller elements than they really are.
  • Substantial differences in how it looks, and possibly how it feels.
  • Choosing the wrong materials (not only in their characteristics but their cost too).
  • «Ideal props» impossible to make (or almost).
  • Difficult installation procedures that become nightmares for the workers as well as the designer.

Those mistakes could result in a budget overload for sure. Every penny you save in the production process should be used to reinforce the window display. By the way, there is another common rookie mistake (derived from the previous) because a rookie usually tends to get cost down and in a childish way assume that is the correct way.

2017 – Just before it was finished. DIMARCOS – Bucaramanga, Colombia.

Being honest that is not good, because every penny you save, it must be spent anyway to rise up the look and feel from the window display. It is known that you have a cost structure for every store and for every shop window you design. If you reduce the budget it means that you are not growing. You need to spend more and more every year. If you do not spend all your budget, the next year it would be reduced and then you would be in big trouble.

R.E.M.E.M.B.E.R.: Expenses are an extremely good signal for the health of a business. If you do not have expenses, it means that you have no money to spend. Crucial. The window display and all communications items (e.g.: p.o.p material, visual merchandising, ambiance and setting adjustment, etc) are expenses. They are not investments or stakes, never!

Incidentally, production processes require from the designer a big amount of expertise, mostly to avoid the worst fear scenario in which you are fooled and also your budget by the suppliers or contractors. Manufacturing quality is a must mainly in top brands. Because if it is not that way the brand might look fake or phony.

Here we have an example of a commercial alliance between Dimarcos and Dreams Home (a top high-quality interior design supplier). Heaven knows the terms from that negotiation, but the truth is that it was made by the marketing manager and it worked perfectly.

In the case, very recurrent, that the budget is not enough, you still have some trump cards:

  • To ask for a budget addition.
  • To inquire about an existent commercial alliance between brands made by the marketing department. Brands that have what you need for the window display.
  • To invoke the owners for building partnerships between their social contacts (friends, partners, colleagues) that probably have brands and companies who share the same target but in different categories that could help with elements for the setting, with the minimal request in return for it. Which is the same as something called: a favor.

When you have passed all of these things and the suppliers and contractors are working on/in/over the elements you need, it is time to say you are done… But not at all, because you still have a pain in the neck that is sprouting and you still have not realized it is coming!!!

I mean the crunch time that will arrive the day you have to install all that you have designed. That topic deserves its own blog entry because setting up the window display will let you wrecked!!! Or maybe just worn out…

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