CI(Corporate Identity) and slogans are meant to be used as a means to convey corporate vision,
managerial ideas, and key values, not just products and brand promotional identities. Corporate Identity is
the strongest effective asset which conveys intangible value like company philosophy, values, and Slogan,
which delivers the vision, philosophy and core values of company through words, is the fastest means for
consumers to feel the vision and direction of the company.
Based on these ideas, the purpose of this study is to understand the importance of design and slogan in
order to establish Corporate Identity, is to understand the design of activities in the perspective of IMC by
looking at the changes in corporate identity based on the management philosophy and slogan of Samsung.
Research methods were conducted through the literature study and case study. In the first parts of the
study, define the concept of slogan and corporate identity through literature review, and selects and
analyzes the management philosophy, CI, and slogan of Samsung by scrutinizing Samsung homepage and
newspaper for 50 years from 1960 to early 2000. In the latter half of the study, we examine paper
advertisements of 50 which carry the keyword ‘Samsung’, in the ads archives like ‘www.adic.co.kr’ and
‘www.tvcf.com'.
The analysis was progressed based on copy and image of the " Samsung " printed advertisement.
Samsung’s slogans go through three stages, along which visual identities in print ads change. ‘Exports
and entering foreign market’ is the first stage slogan in the ninety seventies. Accordingly, Samsung uses
visual images and colors that fit this slogan in its visual identity on print ads. The company accepted the
images of highway, vigorous research, and globe, and the color of blue and black and white.
Based on the top notch technological improvement from 1980 to 2000, Samsung accepted the slogan
reflecting ‘top notch, global, and technology.’ In print ads, Samsung expresses its high technology through
the tag line “Human tech, human and technology combined,” and image of technology and human meeting
together. In 2000, Samsung adopted the vocabularies such as family and hope to emphasize the emotional
interaction with consumers.
From 2010, Samsung Electronics used the slogan of designing management for product advertising, using
the word " Resonance, " " emotion, " and " semantic. "At this time, Samsung express the theme of "
self-reliance, " which revolves around the themes of self-reliance, and uses the themes of " personal, " "
people, " to express the variety of life, personality, subjective values and meanings of life.
Samsung's management philosophy and slogan, visual identity design have changed in accordance with
the changing times. As a matter of fact, by looking at the detailed relationship between Samsung's
management philosophy, the slogan and the visual identity design, we suggest the specific trajectory and
changes in the image of the corporation, Samsung Electronics, and its implications, it also suggests that the
company has raised awareness of the expressions of business and era image and the suggests methodology
for other companies in other industries.