Entry no.: 489

16 May 2008, 10:24 PM

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Branding CEC Bank

“This is a uniquely 21st Century branding story—the reinvention of a government-owned bureaucracy, to compete in the marketplace with some of the world’s sharpest marketers.” Read the review on Identityworks.

Entry no.: 488

16 May 2008, 4:59 PM

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Apple iPhone in Romania

“France Telecom’s Orange said in a one-sentence statement that it will sell the handset in Austria, Belgium, the Dominican Republic, Egypt, Jordan, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Switzerland and African markets later this year.”—see the Associated Press release. Via Brandly yours.

Entry no.: 487

15 May 2008, 10:38 PM

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Branding Lovemarks

Lovemarks, the book: “aimed at six-year-olds”—rarely does bullshit get exposed with such clarity and wit. Forget brands. What you need is an intimate bond with your dandruff shampoo. Read it.

Entry no.: 486

13 May 2008, 12:08 AM

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Apple What dillema?

“By choosing to compete on design instead of technology alone, Apple seems to have found a loophole in the Innovator’s Dilemma.” Why Doesn’t Apple Face The Innovator’s Dilemma?

Entry no.: 485

9 May 2008, 12:20 PM

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Branding AkzoNobel

“It seems that with admirable loyalty, management returned to Wally Olins, whose 1988 team designed Akzo’s ‘Reaching Man.’ Wally’s post-Wolff Olins firm is Saffron.” Read more at Identityworks.

Entry no.: 484

8 May 2008, 11:16 AM

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Apple New iPhone markets

“Later this year, Vodafone customers in Australia, the Czech Republic, Egypt, Greece, Italy, India, Portugal, New Zealand, South Africa and Turkey will be able to purchase the iPhone for use on the Vodafone network.” From Vodafone’s press release cited by DF.

Entry no.: 483

6 May 2008, 11:11 PM

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Brandient CEC Bank rebrands

Today CEC Bank, the oldest Romanian bank, unveiled its new identity designed by Brandient.

See the press conference video record (link in Romanian, free registration required).

Entry no.: 482

6 May 2008, 8:12 AM

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Photography Africa from above

The product of an 8-week helicopter expedition from Hamburg to Cape Town: Eyes Over Africa by Michael Poliza.

Entry no.: 481

5 May 2008, 7:36 PM

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Branding DoCoMo

“It’s like casting off the signs of youth to embrace adulthood.” More at Identityworks.

Entry no.: 479

3 May 2008, 12:00 AM

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Internet Honest-to-goodness

So many blogs are crap that the two substantives—blog and crap—will soon be synonymous. But every once in a while you find a post so honest-to-goodness and beautiful that it single-handedly exonerates the whole damn category.

Entry no.: 478

30 Apr 2008, 4:42 PM

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Design Dog-years

“Our designers, production and client facing people are living dog-years. They live seven years to any normal designer’s one year” — Attik’s new NoiseBlog.

Entry no.: 477

29 Apr 2008, 12:18 AM

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Apple Alright

“I think people are really noticing the difference between Mac OS X and Windows to a greater degree than ever before.” Steve Jobs about Apple’s 51% increase in Macintosh sales.

Entry no.: 475

26 Apr 2008, 10:11 PM

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Quotes Living life

“I finally realized: living life is more important than blogging about design.” Khoi Vinh in his post My Time Away from Blogging.

Entry no.: 474

25 Apr 2008, 5:56 PM

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Internet Bunny spam

For many companies, Orthodox Easter is a great opportunity for sending tons of crappy e-mails that are written worse than most unsolicited mass mailings commonly known as “spam.” The Easter greetings filter cries to be invented.

Entry no.: 472

22 Apr 2008, 12:44 PM

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Branding Thomson Reuters

“Intelligent information is alive”. More at Identityworks.

Entry no.: 471

21 Apr 2008, 3:40 PM

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Photography Postal

Bumbuț posts an incredible image. Ironic and depressing at the same time.

Entry no.: 469

17 Apr 2008, 4:05 PM

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Movies Shine

The Rolling Sones, as you’ve never seen them before—Shine a Light, a concert film by Martin Scorsese, shot with 17 cameras by an all-star team of cinematographers headed up by Robert Richardson, whose fellow directors of photography include Emmanuel Lubezki (“Children of Men”) and Robert Elswit (Oscar for “There Will Be Blood”). Trailer.

So intense it’ll crush you.

Entry no.: 468

11 Apr 2008, 11:29 PM

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Travel North Sea

I’ll be in Scotland this weekend for a Portishead live performance. Not very far from the real Portishead, actually.

Entry no.: 467

8 Apr 2008, 7:05 PM

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Miscellanea Big in Japan

Laugh until you cry. And, as my colleague Iancu says, “don’t you ever complain again”.

Entry no.: 466

8 Apr 2008, 9:55 AM

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Photography Death

The “Feature Photography” 2008 Pulitzer Prize goes to Preston Gannaway for her intimate chronicle of a family coping with a parent’s terminal illness. To see the feature, go to PrestonGannaway.com → Stories & Essays → Remember Me. Via TOP.

Entry no.: 465

7 Apr 2008, 7:35 PM

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Design UK coinage

Noteworthy even given that I’m against design competitions: a 26-year-old first-time currency designer redraws UK coinage. And Jonathan Hoefler’s bitter perspective. Via Kottke.

Entry no.: 464

7 Apr 2008, 4:34 PM

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Photography Falsified

An image is worth a thousand lies, when Photoshop gets involved.

Entry no.: 463

2 Apr 2008, 10:59 AM

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Branding NetApp

“Engineers meet branding and get it! Fantastic.” More at Identityworks.

Entry no.: 462

2 Apr 2008, 10:43 AM

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Design One down

Starck went on to say that he believed that design on the whole was dead. This “I’m so ashamed to make this job” story is hardly new, but what about fighting “barbaria?

Entry no.: 459

28 Mar 2008, 11:03 AM

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Quotes Notice and care

“Notice what’s special and important around me. […] Now that I’ve noticed, care about it.” I enjoyed Randy J. Hunt’s latest article on Speak Up: Pay Attention & Give a Shit.

Entry no.: 460

26 Mar 2008, 11:13 PM

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Architecture Pritzker housekeeper

Pritzker Architecture Prize-winner Rem Koolhaas’ high-tech Maison à Bordeaux as seen from the perspective of Guadalupe Acedo, the housekeeper and the person who actually has to take care of keeping all this amazing design alive.

Entry no.: 458

26 Mar 2008, 9:46 PM

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Branding Devon

Was perfectly happy flying under the radar for a while, but the time had come to look like a leader. More at Identityworks.

Entry no.: 457

26 Mar 2008, 9:14 AM

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Design Jobs on Rand

“If you want options, go talk with other people! I’ll solve your problem for you.” 1993 Steve Jobs interview about working with Paul Rand at paul-rand.com.

Entry no.: 456

22 Mar 2008, 2:23 PM

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Photography Bumbuț blogs

Photographer Cosmin Bumbuț puts bumbutz.ro at work by launching a photo-blog. His regular web site remains at bumbutz.com.

Entry no.: 455

18 Mar 2008, 2:59 PM

Comments: 1

Brandient The brand way

Aneta Bogdan—Brandient’s Managing Partner—speaks about Brandient and Romanian branding market in Mimi Noel’s interview The Brand Way for Money Express. Link in Romanian, sorry.

Entry no.: 454

18 Mar 2008, 2:54 PM

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Quotes Who sells who

“Publishing is not about selling newspapers or magazines to consumers, it’s about selling consumers to advertisers.” Wired Magazine.

Entry no.: 453

13 Mar 2008, 2:05 PM

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Branding Topaz

This new brand will saturate roadside Ireland, replacing both the Shell and the Statoil brands on some 350 petrol service stations. More at Identityworks.