A comunicação do imaterial da marca: análise da comunicação do imaginário da marca Osklen - uma exemplificação no mercado da moda

• Autor(a) principal: Robic, Luciane Adário Biscolla
• Data de Publicação: 2011
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da PUC_SP
• Texto Completo: https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/4345
• topic: Comunicação de marca; Imagem; Imaterialidade; Imaginário; Cultura de marca; Moda; Brand communication; Image; Intangibles; Imaginary; Brand culture; Fashion; CNPQ::CIENCIAS SOCIAIS APLICADAS::COMUNICACAO

Stimulus for the consumption of products takes place mainly through the experiences they promote. Today, flowing is more important than owning, thus the power of differentiation to become an exclusive and unique brand in a competitive market depends increasingly on its immaterial constitution, since access to the brand's intangible assets leads its audience to an emotional connection. Brands that consistently plan and communicate the elements of their intangible assets are more likely to get more exclusive and lasting affective bonds with their audiences, as the construction of emotional benefits occurs when the brand is perceived beyond its functional aspects and their products' physical characteristics, in a process called personification. This point is the beginning of the construction of a brand's imagery, which is called brand intangible assets. Although identifying several studies on brands and intangible assets, this research has not found any works unifying those two fields in an organized, synergic way. The aim of this work was to organize and analyze the elements that constitute the communication of brand intangible assets. To this end, we focused on media and image theories interfacing with brand theories. From this theoretical review, the intangible assets subject (André Gorz, Jeremy Rifkin) was organized making connections with image composition (Dietmar Kamper, Norval Baitello Jr., Hans Belting, Vilém Flusser) and with different brand approaches (David Aaker, Bernd Schmitt, Andrea Semprini and Marc Gobé). The end result was a script to perform the analysis of the brands' intangible elements,which was tested in the analysis of the communication of a fashion brand. Fashion was chosen because it is an industry in which consumption has a strong symbolic representation, and Osklen was sellected for being internationally recognized as a major Brazilian fashion brand. Among the various forms of communication utilized by the brand, collection catalogues were chosen for the analysis because they reflect more directly the subjects and themes of their creators. The representations and symbolic meanings of the Osklen intangible assets were analyzed, and as a result, we obtained an almost complete adhesion to the studied theories. It was concluded that the brand develops an imagery creation process with a high level of emotional skills, presenting it consistently in its communication processes in accordance to what is professed by the theories on intangible assets, image composition and brands. It is hoped with this work to increase the knowledge about brand communication and to contribute to the development of studies in the areas of Communication, Semiotics and Brand Management, integrating and demonstrating the synergy between them