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Nature is the most successful product of our time

Nature is a terrific marketing tool and corporations know this. Somehow the natural reference provides us with a familiar feeling of recognition and trust. We call this phenomenon Bio-mimic-marketing: using images of nature to market a product. Due to the countless campaigns that promote a one-sided positive image of the natural world, nature itself has become the most successfully marketed product of our time.

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‘Green electricity, Organic Shampoo, Jaguar convertibles, Red Bull, Bio Beef, Camel cigarettes and Puma sneakers. Once you develop an eye for it, it is quite astonishing to see how many products and brands refer to Nature’
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Five strategies of Biomimicmarketing

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Green electricity, Organic Shampoo, Jaguar convertibles, Red Bull, Bio Beef, Alligator gardening tools, Camel …

Corporations Like Nature®

You love nature and corporations love you. That's why they make Nature® look very cool.

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Steam Horse

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This remarkable proposal for a steam powered street locomotive was invented by Mathewson in 1876. According to the …

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Wooden Bankcard

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Silver, gold or platinum creditcards? Expensive metals in credit card design used to have a certain luster in the past, …