Within the convincing 2007 article, “Three Dimensional Branding: Using space as a medium for the message”, Herman Miller, a manufacturing company for home furnishings, furniture and equipment, speaks of branding as a way of promoting a company while comparing it to how he believes is more of an effective path – through a 3-dimensional perspective. Throughout the reading, we find Miller’s undoubted opinions on the significance a branding company and its environment has on the results of sales and performance, as well as the outcome on a consumer’s experience in a space. To be discussed will include the driving factors that influence and support his confidence such as how to improve a company through branding design, physically imbedding and wearing a brand into the environment, and how successfully these facets can increase customer satisfaction. Thus, this discussion aims to encourage Miller’s arguments and illustrate why it is so effective and crucial to consider the role of an environment when applying branding in a different perception.
Firstly, branding is considered to be one of the main factors that marketers apply to their products to create a unique and distinctive mark to clearly differentiate their company from others (Miller, 2007, pg. 1). However, to be a more successful brand, one must be able to communicate the innovative language the company speaks, expressing this in a way that exposes customers to use more of their senses. This is the case for three-dimensional branding, where, environmental psychology associates with how individuals deal with perception (Bechtel and Churchman, 2003, pg. 28). One of the most influential theories of perception that is preferred by most architects and design professionals is the ...
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