Fantastic Furniture launches new ‘Find Your Fantastic’ brand campaign via Infinity Squared
Furniture and bedding retailer, Fantastic Furniture, has unveiled a new and improved look, marking the next phase of the brand’s evolution via Infinity Squared.
Since opening its doors 29 years ago, Fantastic Furniture has continued to innovate and disrupt the furniture market. With no signs of slowing down, the refreshed branding, to be rolled out across 77 stores nationwide, will be coupled with new in-store technology for a personalised and digitally-empowered customer experience.
To launch the brand refresh the company has evolved it’s traditional retail focused communications to a more emotive campaign approach, inviting customers to ‘Find your Fantastic’.
Says Jacqui Hawkins, head of marketing at Fantastic Furniture: “At Fantastic, we’re passionate about helping all Australians create a home they love with great looking furniture at affordable prices. It’s about capturing someone’s unique style in a way that makes them feel good for shopping smart.
“Our new campaign celebrates the individual stories told with every Fantastic purchase. Buying new furniture often represents a new and exciting chapter in the lives of our customers, like moving into a new home or buying a toddler their first big bed. Equally, there are beautiful stories created around every day experiences, like having your first family meal at your new dining table.”
The new communications strategy and TV commercials, developed by Infinity Squared, tell these everyday stories in a way that’s down-to-earth and relatable; just like the brand itself. They build on the previous two years’ retail work by director Phillip Sage.
Says Tom Phillips, managing director, Infinity Squared: “We wanted to move Fantastic Furniture away from the category norms [of speaking to product & price].
“Through our research we found customers speak passionately about their Fantastic Furniture purchases. Our storytelling brand platform will see us sharing the relatable ways the brand makes customers feel good.”
The new-look brand identity is the work of Interbrand, and the new integrated campaign is being rolled out on TV, cinema, digital and through PR.
Fantastic Furniture: Head of Marketing, Jacqui Hawkins
Brand Identity Refresh: Interbrand
Strategy and Creative: Infinity Squared
Production: Infinity Squared
Director: Phillip Sage
Sound: Rumble Media: Bohemia
PR: Poem
Online: Croud

14 Comments
…Meh…..
Wow. I was interested in getting the Fantastic business a few years back, but said that their logo sucked… This is leaps and bounds ahead of where they were. Agreed, it’s not going to trouble the juries, but it’s 400% better than where they were.
Skip, that logo is damn awful. It might be better but there was the opportunity to really do something great here. What a shame.
Glad this came with an explanatory press release. The scriptwriting, direction and performance all conspired against me understanding wtf is going on in this spot, even on a second viewing.
So now they look, feel and sound like every other furniture store, where do I shop for really cheap shit? I’m not saying a brand can’t evolve but I thought they had the low price quadrant nailed.
IKEA.
I like the part where the white actress kissed the asian actor for the first time.
Watch sales jump off a cliff.
Loved the previous brand. It screamed cheap and fun and full of distinctive assets.
The creators of this have very little idea how the whole thing works.
It’s mushy middle warble.
Fantastic Furnitures biggest client base is internationals needing to set up shop with next to no money. Why not focus on that? That is such a rich creative territory… Creating something around empowerment, a better life, all that. I like the breaking down of stereotypes in this ad but the relationship depicted feels about as real as your woodgrain laminates.
I also like the part where the white actress kissed the asian actor for the first time.
Very believable.
I totally missed the narrative and for the most part thought the woman was buying a secondhand couch and then the delivery guy rocked up with a couch and a kid. That was stupid.
I think its mighty nice of Infinity Squared to let their clients actually write their own ads.
That made me throw up in my mouth a bit.
I like the bit when the people did the acting