In the tradition of Nascar and your average baseball stadium, here comes the latest way to shamelessly plaster yourself in logos.
From NOTCOT comes the Brand Quilt. I think the genesis of this product was for nostalgia purposes (note that some brands use the ‘classic’ logos and not the new-fangeled one. Dairy Queen, I’m looking at [...]

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From the New York Times comes a brilliant comic strip critique of the campaign logos floating around the ether these days. Some of the commentary I feel is a bit over-the-top, but it’s all in the name of cheek.
If I were designing (or even critiquing) a campaign logo, the big question that comes to [...]

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More observations:
What you are seeing is a pizza box covered entirely with an ad for WaMu. Where does this pizza come from? Who made it? What number should I call to order another one? No idea. This is perhaps the most disturbing example of shameless advertising on everyday surfaces since those I observed the handrails [...]

// a tale of advertising: outdoor, computers & gadgets, design: packaging
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