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Some of Our Favorite (Sometimes Subversive) Branding Related Sites
By lainie at 26 January, 2012, 5:55 am
Ad Busters Ad Freak Ad Pulp Adland Advertising Lab AIGA AIGA Center for Sustainable Design Be a Design Group Beyond the Brand Brand Flakes for Breakfast Branding & Marketing by Dave Dolak Care 2 (Make a Difference) Church of the Customer Coagula Art Journal Convergence Culture Consortium creative synthesis Design Sponge Fair Trade LA Global [...]
Video Game Pollution
By lainie at 14 January, 2012, 7:31 am
PS3’s, Microsoft X-Box 360’s, and Nintendo Wii’s , although abused by some, are the source of harmless entertainment for millions of people worldwide. Greenpeace, however, argues otherwise. On their website, Greenpeace posted and article that exposes Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo for using harmful substances in the production of their popular game consoles. Greenpeace’s report, Playing [...]
On Copyrights
By lainie at 13 January, 2012, 4:47 pm
There he is – the young art student – in the corner, sporting a slouch, worn blue jeans and a faded ironic t-shirt, standing in front of the canvases he submitted for this month’s class show; large, blue, sci-fi landscapes, which, from a distance, are beautiful. They look like heavenly, undulating space-scapes of sky and [...]
Alarmist buzz for the bees
By lainie at 8 January, 2012, 2:47 pm
As a societal phenomenon, the western/wealthy countries advocate their environmental consciousness and take pride from spending ecologically. In spite of their efforts to reduce their footprint, to recycle in order to sustain the biomass, they feel powerless in contemplating the slow degradation of Earth. After the Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, the bovine spongiform encephalopathy (“mad cow”) that [...]
Digital Eve LA
By lainie at 6 January, 2012, 12:06 pm
Digital Eve LA – Lainie Siegel speaks with Erica Oh It used to be said that most fine artists were doomed to a subsistence life, but the new media explosion of the 1990s blew away that age-old “truism” in just half a decade. For proof, look no further than Lainie Siegel, creative director and co-founder [...]
Set the Mood with a Little Wordplay
By lainie at 1 January, 2012, 1:11 pm
There he is, sitting at the other end of the bar all alone. Young, hip, well dressed and he smells nice too. Your friend leaves you for just a brief moment to use the restroom and in a New York minute he appears. Avoiding eye contact won’t help you now, not even a thousand ‘Hail [...]
Feeling Good is the New Shock Value
By lainie at 31 December, 2011, 1:02 pm
By now, we’re all familiar with the side-effects of negative advertising campaigns – overwraught information control, nationwide health problems, stereotyping, the list goes on. In fact, we know more about the effects of negative advertising than about the effects of, for lack of a better word, “Lovertising.” However, psychological studies have proven the advantages of [...]
Intelligent Design – Dollar Artist
By lainie at 30 December, 2011, 1:06 pm
Art and Money depend on each other for survival. During the Renaissance, the Medici family was famous for their artistic sponsership – which has continued to beautify the European environment hundreds of years later. Today, successful businesses like to point to their involvement with and donations to arts funding as evidence that they have our [...]
Finally, truth in advertising!
By lainie at 9 December, 2011, 4:39 pm
And who said American car manufacturers are not honest? Finally an ad that reveals the true sticker price.
What. The. #%@*.
By lainie at 9 December, 2011, 1:08 pm
If business hasn’t already ground to a halt due to this free-falling economic crisis, it surely is slowing rapidly in the waning weeks of 2008 and the imminent onslaught of the holiday season. But just because none of us can afford to travel, buy gifts for our loved ones, or even ship the re-gifts we’ve [...]
