Branded Adventures
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 [...]
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 [...]
Branding Companies And Their Worth To Your Business
By lainie at 18 February, 2011, 2:49 pm
Branding Companies And Their Worth To Your Business One can either go for corporate branding or for product branding – either way, your company will benefit from any strategy implemented by any of the two. For a specific case though, there would be one branding approach that would fit a situation better – and each has [...]
Magnifying Connections: creating an installation, episode 2
By lainie at 9 December, 2008, 6:51 pm
We’re two days away from Digital Family Reunion. And the building process has commenced. Here, jungle [8] Designer Tuan is in the midst of early construction. Enjoy! To see where it all began, see Magnifying Connections: creating an installation, episode 1! UPDATE: Here’s another video for all of you! Me, drilling holes in styrofoam balls!
“New Priorities for the Post-Agency Market”
By lainie at 25 November, 2008, 1:29 pm
Here, at jungle [8], we speak from the perspective of the new business paradigm. Where sustainability, conscientiousness, and honest tactics rise above all else. And it’s nice to know that we’re not alone in our pursuit. Fellow pioneers at Patrick Davis Partners created this typographic video to spread the word about what should be all [...]
Twilight Madness
By lainie at 20 November, 2008, 7:33 pm
As a rule, I aim to avoid fads. The world watches them come and go, and their relevance diminishes quickly. A fad by definition is a short-term event, but a fad has the potential to turn into a trend. A trend can remain popular for decades depending on how many industries it can positively affect. [...]
A Fresh (Branded) Gmail Experience
By lainie at 20 November, 2008, 1:07 pm
Yesterday, Google began its rolling release of the its newest novelty — Gmail themes! Hooray! The customizable, personalized iGoogle pages have had themes for a while now, so extending Google’s already masterful grasp on theming to Gmail appears to be nothing short of a logical progression. And, as all things Google usually are, Gmail themes [...]
Wear What We Were
By lainie at 18 November, 2008, 7:26 pm
In its third year, the Junk to Funk fashion show has found a home in Portland. This is by no means a Hollywood, diamond encrusted, red carpet event. It is not a part of fashion week in New York. The designers showcased do not reside in the lap of exclusive fashion houses in Italy. Each [...]
A Tale of Two Soups: Campbell’s v. Progresso
By lainie at 18 November, 2008, 1:57 pm
Allow me to set the scene. The year is 2008. The month, September. The nation is on the precipice of Fall and only a few short months from – dun Dun DUNnNn — Winter. Yes, Winter. Or, as I’m sure all of you know it, Soup Season. What better to drive away the bitter cold [...]
someone else’s story
By lainie at 13 November, 2008, 7:42 pm
Sometimes, what you think you are writing for yourself, your own book of recollections for further reflection, ends up being someone else’s story. We are a series of interwoven stories, each facetted in such a way that our look into the world will always remain singularly and uniquely our own. We seem to spend so [...]
