What do you see for the future of online branding? This weekend I attended various events at Phoenix Design Week. The whole conference was promising, exciting, and energizing, but something in particular got me thinking. Darren Wilson’s “Death to Traditional” presentation touched upon ways to, you guessed it, kill traditional marketing/branding, and keep things fresh …
Did you see the latest earnings report for Starbucks? Well, their earnings rose from 16 cents a share to 24 cents and beat Wall Street expectations. Look, it does not take a branding connoisseur to recognize that a rise in earnings is not typically related to a singular event.
I’m fascinated by the conversation and controversy surrounding the Ikea typeface change, ie; “Verdanagate” as BrandNew has called it. The furniture company had been using their bespoke face “Ikea Sans” (a tweaked version of Futura) in their catalogs, but recently switched to Verdana; a Microsoft (a curse word amongst the creative set) face designed for …
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