I took a day ‘off’ to attend a Photoshop Seminar at the Javitz here in New York. Now, clearly I’m quite handy in Photoshop (still training for my ACE, btw), but I knew that with Dave Cross running the show, I was bound to learn a thing or two. And I did.
The seminar started with [...]
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I have talked about my branding philosophy and how I believe that brands are the human elements of non-human entities, like companies. In this internet video, that philosophy comes to life as a number of popular web companies are brought to life, to force an intervention against MySpace.
Note how each brand is represented. Are the [...]
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Today I got my copy of the Pentagram Black Book, which made its way around the blogosphere a few weeks ago. I, being not that important, only received one because I was quick enough to email in and request one. Lucky me!
Plain brown cardboard, perfectly sufficient. And not in a huge box like Amazon.
Celophane wrapping [...]
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I don’t think I’ve ever stated it on this blog, but I’m a huge fan of This American Life and host Ira Glass. This clip came to me via Ira himself (via Twitter) and it’s great.
Watch this clip and replace “stories” and “writing” with “projects” and “design.” The philosophies are exactly the same across any [...]
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Showing once again that gigantic national airlines are bad ideas, American Airlines has announced that will charge travelers $15 for their first bag checked into luggage. That’s right, the first bag. Although airlines have been charging for second and third bags, or in the case of international, extra-heavy bags, this new policy is a dramatic [...]
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Marks & Spencer, the supermarket, has exclusively carried their own brand products for almost 50 years, but now they’re announcing that they will carry branded products like regular supermarkets. This is significant because Marks has implied, by carrying solely their own products, that their products are superior. From a branding point of view, the upper [...]
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Today I have the unexpected honour of being heavily quoted in an article on CreditCards.com. The author, Emily Starbuck Gerson, discusses celebrity credit cards, and why they generally don’t work. She interviewed me and I provided some memorable lines like this:
Having a celebrity-branded product is analogous to taking advice from that person. You might take [...]
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