Art Comes First: Exploring the Intersection of Style and Identity
Exercise creative brand development skills and learn how to build a brand with an authentic identity and style.
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Art Comes First: Exploring the Intersection of Style and Identity
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Learn how to build a timeless brand with top brand consultancy, Art Comes First
This course will teach you how to create a brand identity that aligns with your artistic vision, as well as the values of your target audience.
Over the past decade, Sam Lambert and Shaka Maidoh, founders of brand consultancy, Art Comes First, have built a memorable and distinct portfolio from the bottom up.
In this course, they share key elements that made their brand succeed and the customer experiences they’ve created around it. You will learn how to do the same.
Learn how to build a unique brand identity
Guided by Sam and Shaka, you’ll explore how to turn your artistic inspiration into an authentic brand identity and tone of voice, and a set of brand values.
You’ll benefit from their wide ranging expertise in brand innovation using sound, visuals, and garments.
Create a meaningful connection with your consumer
As you learn how to create a sense of community around your brand, you’ll consider different mediums of brand marketing, communication, and connection.
By using music in your messaging you’ll learn to fine-tune a brand voice that resonates with customers, critics, and competitors.
Instil your product’s design and service with the essence of your brand
Your product remains the currency of exchange between you and your community.
How can that exchange become more than a transaction? How do you create an experience your consumer truly values?
Having explored the qualitative aspects of marketing, retail, and design, you’ll be inspired and empowered to launch products, experiences, brands, and projects that succeed thanks to their creative authenticity.
What topics will you cover?
- The Art of Knowing Your Self: Identity and Style
- The Art of Knowing Your Voice: Sound and Messaging
- The Art of Knowing Your Cut: Design and Product
- The Art of Knowing Your Community: Connection and Impact
Learning on this course
On every step of the course you can meet other learners, share your ideas and join in with active discussions in the comments.
What will you achieve?
By the end of the course, you‘ll be able to...
- Apply the Art Comes First ethos to building an authentic brand
- Demonstrate the effectiveness of a communal brand strategy
- Design online and offline engaging customer experiences
- Collaborate successfully with creatives, brands and businesses to create a unique value proposition
- Identify your brand voice and sound for sensorial marketing purposes
Who is the course for?
This course is designed for creatives looking to create a brand, experience, or product with a strong brand identity.
It will be particularly useful for retail, marketing, fashion and design professionals, as well as fashion enthusiasts, musicians, and artists who want to expand their legend and deepen their connection with their audience.
What do people say about this course?
"The ACF experience focuses on spiritual growth,
""The ACF experience focuses on spiritual growth, one which brings out emotions, feelings and ideas in people." "
"Art Comes First, a music-inspired sartorial menswear brand."
""[...] nothing could stop them from creating an iconic fashion brand that marries couture with community.""
Who will you learn with?
Sissi is the Founder of The Hopenclass with
a 10 year-experience learning, unlearning, researching, & teaching critical fashion studies, business and innovation around the world at post-graduate level.
Visual and cultural Curator. Co-founder of Art collective Art Comes First.
Co-Founder, Art Comes First
Who developed the course?
The Hopenclass
The Hopenclass is a cultural and creative space to (un)learn. Our global think tank stands at the intersection of Culture and Academia. We explore interdisciplinary subjects from entertainment, to business, sustainability and art, and how these influence humanity. The Hopenclass values emotional intelligence and soft skills over IQ, and the real world agrees with us.
Art Comes First
Artistic expression and creative workmanship for a refined Global Style.
Founders Sam Lambert and Shaka Maidoh ensure their creative expression extends beyond their base in London, and in the cultural craftsmanship in their designed garments, products, and collaborative pieces worldwide.
Learning on FutureLearn
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- Courses are split into weeks, activities, and steps to help you keep track of your learning
- Learn through a mix of bite-sized videos, long- and short-form articles, audio, and practical activities
- Stay motivated by using the Progress page to keep track of your step completion and assessment scores
Join a global classroom
- Experience the power of social learning, and get inspired by an international network of learners
- Share ideas with your peers and course educators on every step of the course
- Join the conversation by reading, @ing, liking, bookmarking, and replying to comments from others
Map your progress
- As you work through the course, use notifications and the Progress page to guide your learning
- Whenever you’re ready, mark each step as complete, you’re in control
- Complete 90% of course steps and all of the assessments to earn your certificate
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