As the sensitive side of the consumers is becoming more important, many scholars are focusing on the sentimental attachment of the consumers and the brands. In the marketing area, the studies on the brand attachment that emphasizes the sentimental att...
As the sensitive side of the consumers is becoming more important, many scholars are focusing on the sentimental attachment of the consumers and the brands. In the marketing area, the studies on the brand attachment that emphasizes the sentimental attachment in the relationship between the brand personality and brand image or the consumer image and the self-images are being carried out. However, in the artistic marketing area where the sentiment needs to be focused on, such studies cannot be found.
This study aims to investigate the effect of the consistency of the brand image the consumer image with the visual identity image on the brand attachment after studying the various theoretical inspections of the brand-consumer-brand attachment relationships and also prove the importance of the visual identity through the theoretical background.
I measured the brand-consumer characteristics and the consistency with the visual identity image for this study. Since there is no developed tool to measure the visual identity image, I chose to ask the consistency directly.
To find the connections between these in the image measurement items and the design evaluation adjectives language items, I came up with the adjectives with same meanings through previous investigations with experts
(people with masters degrees in Korean literature, and masters in design) and the non-experts (average people) to ensure that the questions regarding the visual identity image consistency are understood well without problems in answering them.
This study needed to select a brand with high symbolism that has been used by many consumers. As a brand that meets these criteria, I have selected a sensitive brand, Starbucks. Starbucks started as a small coffee shop in Seattle in 1987 and became known as an expensive high-quality coffee chain nationally and also internationally and officially opened the population of the coffee shops. Therefore, I have selected Starbucks brand and the survey was answered by 232 Starbucks customers
As a result, the consumer characteristic and the visual identity characteristics consistency was higher than the consistency between the brand image and the visual identity characteristics and the brand characteristics and the visual identity characteristics consistency also affected the brand attachment. Also, the consistency between the consumer characteristics and the visual identity characteristics affected the brand attachment differently than the brand characteristics and the visual identity
characteristics consistency on the brand attachment. In the consistency of the consumer characteristics, the activity, efficiency and warmth showed an impact and the brand image only showed an impact in activity, which was different.
Through this study, the brand characteristics and the consumer characteristics that affect the brad attachment have different impact on the brand attachment based on the visual identity characteristic consistency.
The brand that has an individual’s unique characteristics easily affect the consumers and the conditions to be attached to the consumers can be how properly express and control the consumers identity or how consistent they are with the self-characteristics. Therefore, the design strategies to understand the uniqueness of the targeted consumers and to develop the consistent brand are an important study field in the artistic marketing area to
develop a long-lasting brand.