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Olympics 2008 Review: The Chinese Brand
Wed, 03 Sep 2008 23:53:56 +0000It wouldn’t be my blog if I didn’t talk about the branding of nations. This year’s Olympics were touted as China’s “coming out party.” Here they are, showing the world what they can do — showing the scale, precision, technology, tradition, coordination, planning, and slick execution of a massive event that took about 8 years, and [...]WTF Wednesday: Tap’d NY
Wed, 03 Sep 2008 22:59:58 +0000The bottled water industry has its skeptics. While there are some folks who, for some reason, refuse to drink tap water under any conditions, most people acknowledge that it’s pretty much the same thing. But now it’s literally the same thing. Tap’d NY is a new brand of bottled water where the contents are nothing more [...]Olympics 2008 Review: The Graphics
Sun, 31 Aug 2008 14:52:19 +0000Having been writing about the Beijing branding for well over a year, I almost feel like I have nothing left to say. I mean, you all saw it, right. When I was watching the games I was obviously watching the sports, but I had a keen eye on the background graphics, the signage, the uniforms, [...]Olympics 2008 Review: Media Coverage
Thu, 28 Aug 2008 19:04:30 +0000Now that the dust has settled at the Bird’s Nest Stadium and the Olympics flame has been extinguished, I can finally collect my thoughts and comment on the global circus that was the media coverage. This year’s coverage was bigger, more intense, more global, more comprehensive, more technologically-advanced, more highly-defined, and more quickly deployed than [...]The Final Week of Summer
Mon, 25 Aug 2008 21:57:34 +0000With the unofficial end of Summer only one week away (!) I had take a moment to post and simply explain why this has been the sparsest month on this blog since I started actively blogging back in 2006. I hope I haven’t turned anyone off with my lack of witty graphical observations or controversial [...]WTF Wednesday: Branded Lip Balm
Wed, 20 Aug 2008 16:01:37 +0000This one happened to fall into my lap via the always-insightful Randy Ludacer. Randy has a knack for digging up interesting and forgotten packaging designs, but this one totally knocked me back. Have you ever seen branded lip balm? I’m not talking about Barbie products aimed at girls, but lip balm minted in the image of [...]Thnk CMYK
Thu, 14 Aug 2008 21:53:53 +0000Designing with limited colours is a unique challenge for designers. Corporate colours, production budget, and other logistical limitations often mean that we have to dig deep for ideas on how to make an eye-catching design using only a limited palette. Sometimes we’ll just use plain old CMYK. From Germany comes the Thnk CMYK series. These books, [...]I Met The Walrus
Sat, 09 Aug 2008 04:37:04 +0000I stumbled across this and it blew my mind. The following is an animation to accompany a recorded [audio] interview with John Lennon, from 1969. A young Canadian sneaked into John’s hotel room in Toronto and quizzed him on the subject of Peace. The results are puzzlingly profound, but which make for a gorgeous journey of [...]The World in Bubbles
Wed, 06 Aug 2008 15:13:18 +0000This is by far the coolest interactive info graphic I’ve seen in recent memory. And yes, it has to do with the Olympics. From the New York Times comes an interactive visual display of all the medal-winning nations by year. I really don’t need to explain, you should be able to figure it out instantly. Check it [...]WTF Wednesday: Olympic Cheerleaders
Wed, 06 Aug 2008 12:18:48 +0000Since this is the final WTF Wednesday before the Beijing Olympics kick-off on Friday, 08.08.2008, I figure I’d post my reaction to the oddity of Chinese cheerleaders for the Olympics. I’m saddened to learn that we Americans are exporting this silly, and some would argue antiquated, tradition. In my mind, the notion of cheerleaders is tied [...]
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