11 month ago
plasticbag : Five Popular Brands the Nazis Gave Us! - Fascinating for making me uncomfortable about the people who made my last suit, making me despair of IBM and raising an eyebrow at the Aryan origins of the company that bought BBC Technology a few years back...
adamrg : Third Reich to Fortune 500: Five Popular Brands the Nazis Gave Us - Crass and superficial. But funny and at least the five companies named are accurate.
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11 month ago
Linkorama : The only real social networks are personal ones - Third, I’m not sure social networks are “built” in any case. Seems to me they’re more organic than structural.
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16 month ago
Richard Rutter : Cultural creatives - Discovering the lost, upmarket tribe of American consumers.
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20 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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22 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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26 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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41 month ago
Linkorama : Restoring the Power of Brands - The opportunity starts with building enduring, rich and multi-dimensional relationships with customers.
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jkottke : Wikipedia entry on Apple's typography
plasticbag : Wikipedia entry on Apple and Typography - A fascinating entry that covers Apple corporate fonts and brand identity, the fonts used on various Macintoshs over the years as well as going into some detail about font technologies in general
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