The Brand Called Wally Olins. The London office of Saffron, which describes itself as “the world’s smallest global brand consultancy,” is the big, white hangar you’d expect from designland. The people have that Euro world-citizen look: the women pared down, the men with heavy, pushed-back hair. No suits. No bling. It’s actually, to be more specific, haute Hispanic—Saffron, which also has offices in London, Mumbai and New York, started in Spain. At one desk there’s a conspicuously elder statesman, Wally Olins, CBE (Commander of the British Empire), Saffron’s British chairman since 2001.
At 80, he’s old enough to be everyone else’s grandfather. For many, Olins—who in 1965 co-founded the legendary branding company Wolff Olins—is the leading apologist for brands and branding as the driving force of the modern world, the inventor of the modern corporate identity consultant as a recognized specialty rather than something admen do in their spare time. His first job was with S.H. How Brands Become Icons: The Principles of Cultural Branding by Douglas B. Holt.
The Big Idea The Great Idea in advertising is far more than the sum of the recognition scores, the ratings and all the other superficial indicators of its success; it is in the realm of myth, to which measurements cannot apply.” —Leo Bogart In the ad biz, “The Big Idea” is the Holy Grail, the creative solution that in a few words or images sums up the compelling reason to plop down your hard-earned cash for something you may not have known you even needed.
Big Ideas have something called “legs”; they can be called upon again and again in different ways. Some Big Ideas include: “The Pepsi Generation,” “Where’s the beef? ,” “Just do it” and the Energizer Bunny. In the academy, theorists are also on the lookout for the Big Idea. In his new book, How Brands Become Icons: The Principles of Cultural Branding, marketing theorist Douglas B. The theory of cultural branding supplants prevailing marketing paradigms, Holt argues.
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