How Carl Jung's 12 character archetypes apply to branding
Jones Knowles Ritchie’s Global Strategy Director on how she taps into the human psyche to help define the character of a brand
Every brand has a story, but how do you turn that story into a compelling brand personality that will connect with audiences? Jane Steel, Global Strategy Director at Jones Knowles Ritchie, recommends one method using psychologist Carl Jung’s character archetypes as a tool.
These archetypes, which were first outlined by Jung in the 1900s, sought to organise human personalities into 12 main types, based on their behaviour. Here, Steel plays a game of word association with the following archetypes to help brands form tailored narratives.
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