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Lions are used to represent pride, strength and of course the top of the food chain. Being one of the most widely recognized animal symbols on our planet, it can make a great logo mark. Mostly recognized by the male face, many national flags include the animal to show nobility. In this showcase we managed [...]
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The History of Marketing: An Exhaustive Timeline [INFOGRAPHIC] Ever since people have had something to sell, we’ve been marketing. But the effectiveness of those marketing methods have waxed and waned over thousands of years, and as consumers and their technologies advanced at a more and more rapid pace, marketers have had to change their game. [...]
Graphic designer and artist David Marsh combines two of his interests in a series of prints – Pantone swatch graphics from Adobe Illustrator and classic album covers “Hip-hop artist Scroobious Pip liked them so much he commissioned me to design his latest album cover and single releases in a similar style,” says Marsh. Read [...]
Social media managers dream of having an audience of millions. We think of how amazing it would be to have legions of engaged fans commenting, liking and sharing our brilliant posts while sitting back and watching the fan base swell. For some brands, this is a reality. And while some of these brands gained notoriety [...]
Luxury brands spend significant amounts of money on how they look, but how often do they pay attention to how they sound? The inappropriate retail soundscapes of unconscious brands can decrease in-store sales 28 percent. That’s why Julian Treasure founded The Sound Agency. Treasure and his team study the effects of sound on our lives [...]
Funny how 40 years swoosh by: June 1971 is the date the Nike Swoosh was launched. Designed by Carolyn Davidson for $35 – a “Bargain Brand,” the Dept. of Nike Archives notes in its extraordinarily understated tabloid-sized newsprint history of the mark (produced for the “benefit of Nike employees”). What others might take an entire [...]
Disaster has struck! It’s 8:00 in the morning, it’s Easter Sunday ( a public holiday ), all the shops are closed for the day and I’m out of coffee. If I can’t start my day with a caffeine boost, a collection of good coffee packaging designs will have to do. I’ve always liked the rustic [...]
Remember when water used to be free? People would think that you would be crazy to sell something that is offered free. Crazy is beyond it’s meaning, because look at us currently buying bottled water. Even though H2O does not taste different, the bottle does on the eyes. There has been a huge amount of [...]
Anyone who has gotten the latest news about Steve Jobs’ resignation or the revolution in Libya from Twitter is probably used to the idea that the real-time information network has become a powerful tool for journalism — a point we’ve made often. But that reality is still filtering down through the world of political reporting, [...]
