Branding Anguish | The Human Brand Story of Frank McCourt
Examining brand design, storytelling and identity in literature and motion pictures Frank McCourt lived a life that few have journeyed. And he passed that life, last month, on the 19th. He's best known for his authorship of "Angela's Ashes" a telling of the travails...
What, the logos, speak?
Brand identity, integration, story and truth. I've spoken about the reach to true brands. What are they, what resonation have they with audiences and who cares about the story that they promulgate? I'm looking for true brands; and, in my own work, I'm looking for...
Vampire Brands | True Blood: the emergence of the darker side.
Exploring the fashionability of the preternatural (brand) Lina Leandersson | "Let the Right One In" Magnet Releasing I've made some observations in the past, about the patterning of doom -- the idea that in the midst, or in the emergence of difficulty, there are other...
What lies beneath
Exploring the construct of brand, community, enterprise and the work that we do. I've been a designer for a long time; and working in the creative space is in my blood. My mother was a painter, an artist in every sense of the world, the word. My father is a farmer, a...
Brand Instinct: The human sense of connection in community
Studying the context of intuition in branding When we've had the opportunity to explore the notions of testing -- locally, nationally, internationally, even in micro-community and localized interceptions -- it's interesting to consider what is sensed, in the testing,...
The human brand: a ring of commitment, living engaged, impassioned work and love. And my Mother.
Exploring the conceptions of love, commitment to vision, work and the life long pursuit of something meaning full. In acknowledgment of my Mother's birthday, today, at 80 times around the sun. I've been working on a human brand study of Richard Avedon; but, like most...
Calligraphy, brand design, animation and the illustration of identity
Exploring the origin, development and renewed applications of the word. Brand storytelling, animated in humanized beauty -- mind, thought, hand, expression. Calligraphy is beauty and writing, combined. And it's long been seen as a kind of remote and obscure art,...
Brand Love: Community, Culture Cult: Amazon, TaoBao and Acquisitiveness
Exploring the mapping of personality and brand in cultural change | Amazon+Zappos and the Endless(.com)...potential. Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has a point of view -- and his strategies, intriguingly, focus on one compelling degree of index. Community attention. You might...
The Palace of Memory, the Library of the Mind
Amazon, the mind, cloud consciousness and the making of place. Earlier in my life, I was under training, in languages (German, at the time), with Thomas Bunnell, SJ. I actually went there, with him, to a monastic seminary -- to practice and study the...