4 month ago
deusx : The Real Power of Personal Branding | chrisbrogan.com - "Try your damnedest to be true to the things that make you who you are, and try your best to improve upon those gifts you have, and compensate for the ones you lack."
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deusx : Notional Slurry » Personal brand: red hot, with a smell of burnt flesh - "Branding is what you do to shit you plan to sell in a bottle, when you don’t want to give away the recipe but do want to assure customers that it will consistently be the same shit no matter which branded bottle they open. A brand is a promise of
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7 month ago
deusx : Maintaining your Personal Brand Online - Snook.ca - "For me, it is important to maintain my own sense of self outside of any organization that I work with. Our society is very transient and the idea of working for a single company for more than five years is foreign to many of my generation (and young
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11 month ago
joshua : What fictional evil has great corporate branding? - awesome thread
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13 month ago
WillPate : ConceptShare - Design collaboration made easy - I work here now :)
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13 month ago
plasticbag : I'm seriously considering getting myself some plasticbag.org branded M&Ms - They're just so totally awesome that I find it astonishing that I don't have them already. God knows what I'd do with them except give them to people at conferences...
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14 month ago
plasticbag : Noisy Decent Graphics has a highly entertaining post on the book "Churnmore", a satire on PR, advertising and brand people - Thanks to Matt Jones for pointing it out to me. I will be heading to Amazon and buying it immediately.
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16 month ago
plasticbag : Stephen Bayley in the Guardian rips the Olympics logo a new ... er ... ring? - The one thing he says that really resonated with me was that people are now obsessed with brand as a mask for reality, rather than brand as a representation of something fundamental to your organisation or product. Agree with that.
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16 month ago
plasticbag : Vile Telegraph logo that rips into the people who came up with the Olympics logo... - Apparently the media are camped out around the houses of people who did the work. And can I just say that £400,000 is a reasonable cost for a medium sized team of people for a year doing skilled work.
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jonhicks : This is my favourite solution to the Olympics logo too!
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17 month ago
jonhicks : Removed: The London 2012 logo that can give you a fit | the Daily Mail
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17 month ago
jonhicks : Typefaces used in corporate identities
Cameron Moll : Logo typefaces from leading companies - List of logo typefaces from leading companies around the world. (thanks, Spencer)
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17 month ago
jonhicks : London 2012 - New brand launches - Sweet Nelly Furtado that hideous! I can see Seb Coe talking to the designer "Well yes, these ideas are all very nice, but my little sister did this over the weekend and we want to go with that.."
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17 month ago
jonhicks : Let’s ask children to save the children - I love the Johnson Banks approach to new Save the Children branding. Get children to create new and more relevant forms and weights of Gill Sans.
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17 month ago
WillPate : Companies Get a Sense of Humor - Finally
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18 month ago
plasticbag : Monocle—bizarre magazine of the overpaid design-savvy intellectual elite—is selling co-branded bicycles... - I'm still not sure I get the magazine, but I have to say I'm bloody loving the look of that bike. If I actually ever used a bike, that's exactly the kind of one I'd want...
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19 month ago
philgyford : Noisy Decent Graphics: Interesting 2007 - Fantastic ideas for doing all the supporting graphic/ product/ identity design around the Interesting 2007 mini conference. Lots of re-use of materials, very nice. (via Blackbeltjones)
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20 month ago
plasticbag : Vitamin has a feature on 'How To Name Your Company' which I've found relatively entertaining... - Been trying to come up with some good names for products recently without an enormous amount of luck. Tricky process.
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21 month ago
Nelson Minar : The ad generator - 1997 is calling to you (via Techcrunch)
plasticbag : Flickr plus the semantically analysed structures of advertising language equals auto-generated advertising - Honestly, this is the kind of thing that should be in art galleries at the moment rather than on the intenret - this stuff is the readymades of the early 21st century...
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23 month ago
wearehugh : Google Maps - Firefox crop circle (CLOSEUP)
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24 month ago
plasticbag : Seven Tips for Naming Your Web 2.0 Startup - I'm interested that the rules they cite are broken by pretty much every single start-up that they mention.
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25 month ago
plasticbag : Creative Review has a weblog and they're using it to respond to criticism of the new BBC logos - I'm not sure what I think about them. Like many mainstream British television theme tunes, they seem restrained, lacking punch, with no bass or weight to really get the heart pounding. Pretty or constrained. The Daniel O'Donnell of branding?
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25 month ago
Jeremy Zawodny : Why Paris Hilton Is Famous (Or Understanding Value In A Post-Madonna World) - Why Paris Hilton Is Famous (Or Understanding Value In A Post-Madonna World): "Whenever she tries to promote herself, it falls flat. Books, records, movies, etc. don’t work for Paris. Because she’s actually a platform. Like Digg and YouTub
43folders : Why Paris Hilton Is Famous (Or Understanding Value In A Post-Madonna World) « chartreuse (BETA) - "What makes Paris brilliant is that she used the attention she had and gave it to others thereby garning more attention for herself." via:mathowie
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28 month ago
plasticbag : Random new Mastercard rebrand - Getting on the gradient fills bandwagon just as it's changing to gradient patterns and aqua effects. Poor form, Mastercard!
veen : Mastercard RebrandingAdvertising/Design Goodness - Is it wrong to like 1979 the best? I mean, honestly?
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32 month ago
kellan : A new logo for Atom? - Nothing like a circle-A decorated with a pentagram to say 'Syndication!' I like it. #
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