Now that the dust has settled at the Bird’s Nest Stadium and the Olympics flame has been extinguished, I can finally collect my thoughts and comment on the global circus that was the media coverage. This year’s coverage was bigger, more intense, more global, more comprehensive, more technologically-advanced, more highly-defined, and more quickly deployed than [...]

// a tale of China, advertising: tv/radio, brands & branding, computers & gadgets, national identities, the internet, web technology
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I find the wit of College Humor to be decidedly un-funny. Even when I was in college, I was never ruled by the lowest common denominator of comedy, which they’ve fully embodied for years now.

But these folks have cooked up something semi-relevant, namely a short video where Fonts come to life and enact their nature [...]

// a tale of WTF, the internet, typography
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Remember back in May when I started the Design for Fun initiative? Well, it’s back. This time around we’re tackling a smaller project: a logo for The Culture of Ownership.

The current Culture of Ownership header/logo.
BACKGROUND
The Culture of Ownership is a blog about intellectual property, and how big business and government are slowly, and not so [...]

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By now, the global tech community is addicted to Twitter. Twitter handles are appearing on business cards and in email signatures, and “what’s you Twitter?” is replacing “what’s your email?” as the default way to get in touch with someone. It’s great for a number of reasons, but it’s a very strange brand, and not [...]

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It’s official, LOLcats have entered the mainstream advertising sphere. This ad for Alka Seltzer turned up on Fredrik Samuel’s blog. The caption actually fits in line with the whole LOLcat mode of copywriting (if I may use that term loosely). Here’s a link to the original. My version is above.

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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 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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