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In a Year of Immense Change, Our Core Desires Didn't
The pandemic transformed much of daily life, but also proved our desires are primal, unshakable things.
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The Way Forward for Heritage Brands
As consumers’ wants and needs change, LPK’s experts offer guidance on how to evolve your brand’s legacy with meaning.
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How Branding Became Key to the Modern B2B
Historically less focused on brand, B2B enterprises are adopting consumer-facing techniques to deepen connection and grow.
Podcast
Nathan Hendricks on Action & Ambition Podcast: How We Built a World-Class Creative Culture in a Smaller City
He reflects on the process of building a culture of creative excellence in a small Midwestern city.
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Why Has Beauty Gone Missing in Design?
Nathan Hendricks goes looking, explaining why beauty is critical to what we design for people.
News
Vitamin Shoppe Joins the CBD Movement with New Private-Label Offerings
Two private-label brands for The Vitamin Shoppe, plnt and Vthrive, enter the CBD space.
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What Matters Most Right Now? Radical Empathy.
As people’s wants and needs change in the face of uncertain times, Bhavik Joshi helps brands make sense of the shifts and how to best address them—with empathy.
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Better by Desire: Driving a More Enviable Future for Your Brand
Emily St Clair-Johnson, Head of Strategy for LPK Europe, explains how our 16 hardwired desires give way to a brand strategy for future growth.
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Bridging Ambition & Reality: The 5 Sustainability Action Gaps for Brands
Ed Adamson, Head of Innovation for LPK Europe, unpacks the 5 action gaps that hold brands back from reaching their sustainability goals.
Video
Decision By Desire
If branding is about developing better experiences for real people, how do we ensure we’re designing what they want?
LPK’s desires methodology acts as a compass for decision-making, pointing to what actually motivates people.
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A Promising Diagnosis for the Patient Care Experience
In a breakthrough thought piece on the health-care sector, Lauren Doerning and Jen Dusold encourage brands to use desires to create elevated, patient-first experiences.
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The Charge of the Designer: Connecting with the True Desires of Consumers
In an era of consumer vengeance, Meredith Post, Design Director at LPK, examines the changing role of the brand designer—and how human desires can point us forward.
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Desires: On Social Contact, Acceptance, Romance & Family
Using human truth to improve brand relevance, LPK’s Nathan Hendricks explores four desires: social contact, acceptance, romance and family.
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Desires: On Sustenance, Tranquility, Physicality & Order
In an effort to align brands with commercial truth, LPK Chief Creative Officer Nathan Hendricks explains four desires: sustenance, tranquility, physicality and order.
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Desires: On Curiosity, Independence, Honor & Idealism
In an effort to dial up brand meaning, LPK Chief Creative Officer Nathan Hendricks points to four desires: curiosity, independence, honor and idealism.
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Desires: On Power, Vengeance, Saving & Prestige
To builds brands with greater consumer relevance, LPK Chief Creative Officer Nathan Hendricks dissects four desires: power, vengeance, saving and prestige.
