Category Archives: brand

Support Your Local Heroin Brand.

Written by Peter. Posted on February 9, 2010. Filed under advertising, brand, business, consumer, design, graffiti, guerrilla. No comments.
Support Your Local Heroin Brand.
Neat blurb about a startup art project documenting ‘heroin brands’ – the stamps found on bags of heroin identifying their maker or seller.  This has always been a little intriguing to me.  You can support their project with a small donation here.

State of the Web.

Written by Peter. Posted on February 3, 2010. Filed under advertising, annunciation, brand, business, consumer, interactive, internet, technology, trend, user interface. No comments.
Great infographic re: web usage and demographic stats from focus.com.

iCarumba.

Written by Peter. Posted on January 28, 2010. Filed under advertising, brand, consumer, design, interactive, internet, technology, trend, user interface. No comments.
iCarumba.
Like many, I’ve had a long, strange relationship with Apple.  Since the 80s I’ve owned Apple II’s, Macintoshes, Performas, Quadras, G4s, G5s, Powerbooks, MacBooks, iBooks, iPods, iPhones, etc etc etc.  My disposition toward the company teeters between unabashed fanboy-ism to outright fury. Because we live in an age of rapid progress, I can’t find fault with [...]

Bankrupt Mall of America.

Written by Peter. Posted on December 22, 2009. Filed under advertising, brand, business, consumer, design, trend. No comments.
Delicious infographic from the economic crisis blog.  Apparently something called Consumer Sentiment is down to its lowest levels since 1980.  Coincidentally, so is my Frequency of Visits to Crappy Stores at Crowded Malls index.

Cool AR Biz Card.

Written by Peter. Posted on December 15, 2009. Filed under advertising, brand, business, consumer, design, flash, interactive, internet, technology, trend, user interface, vids. No comments.
Cool AR Biz Card.
This is pretty neat – nice application of augmented reality in a business card context. AR Business Card from James Alliban on Vimeo.

Thirst or Idiocy?

Written by Peter. Posted on December 11, 2009. Filed under brand, business, consumer, design, politics, trend, vegetarian. No comments.
Thirst or Idiocy?
Bottled Water costs 10,000 times more than Tap, and is generally more polluted and less regulated.  Signs the Apocalypse is Nigh… Click for large view.

Chilean Deliciousness.

Written by Peter. Posted on November 10, 2009. Filed under brand, business, consumer, food, trend, vegetarian. No comments.
Chilean Deliciousness.
My buddy Tom Caestecker is a Chicago-based wine reviewer – check out his latest column on Chilean reds here.  I just like hearing things described as “total fruit bombs”.  And what other wine review references the ’sixth’ Rolling Stone?  Little Red Rooster, indeed.

Brooklyn Fare.

Written by Peter. Posted on November 5, 2009. Filed under advertising, brand, business, consumer, design, user interface. No comments.
Brooklyn Fare.
Beautiful brand & packaging design work featured recently on Behance. Brooklyn Fare is a new, full service grocery store located in Downtown Brooklyn. The identity is very simple: one custom proprietary typeface (Fare Serif), four colors, and lots of witty copy. The text is useful in highlighting the store’s diverse range of quality products and high [...]

Hell’s Trademark Attorneys.

Written by Peter. Posted on November 4, 2009. Filed under advertising, brand, business, consumer, design. No comments.
Hell’s Trademark Attorneys.
Hells Angels win legal battle with fashion label Mambo over death head logo. WHEN the Hells Angels saw their “death head” logo on a Mambo sweatshirt, they reached not for the baseball bats of stereotypical bikie lore, but for their lawyers, in a bid to protect their intellectual property. The Australian has revealed that Gazal Corp – Mambo’s [...]

Social Media Ghettos.

Written by Peter. Posted on November 3, 2009. Filed under brand, business, consumer, interactive, internet, kids, technology, trend. No comments.
Social Media Ghettos.
I’ve noted before that the vast, competing social networking sites seem to be aligning to members based on socio-economic status. The Globe And Mail’s Lisan Jutras continues the topic: Last year, Facebook overtook MySpace in numbers of members. If you are like me, you made the switch because information was better organized on Facebook, and the [...]