Brand adaption: US Brands | Japanese DNA
Voyages and patterns in style: Harajuku, Manga Jazz, Ivy League Preparatory -- newly vitalized in the Japanese love of the brand. When I'd travel to Japan, I'd leave on Friday, so I'd get there on Saturday, to explore the Tokyo city that night, and from the early...
Brand Vibe: The passage of a magazine at 16
Exploring Quincy Jones, a vision of newly branding and defining the storytelling of music, culture, trend and coolness: Vibe Magazine Quincy Jones, who just happens to be from Seattle, one of the places that I live and love in, created about a decade and a half back,...
Death as a sales tool: human brand passage, brand boost.
Kevin Mazur | image.net The death of Michael Jackson and brand, emotion, memory and sales. It's an unfortunate synchrony that unexpected passage boosts the propositions of the selling of that person. And, of course, this happens time and time again, looking back, over...
Starbucks | Exploring brand in evolution: University Village
The revelation of Starbucks retail design prototype two. I have a funny relationship with Starbucks. I've really never worked with them, yet I have these links to the creative leadership that allow for an intriguing consciousness about what lies at the heart of the...
Human+Brand+Love | Michael Jackson
Loving the good, the bad, the ugly and the beautiful. I've written about that idea of the human brand, which I might more effectively relate to the notion of the "human torch" -- a fiery inspiration. Going back, thousands of years, into the mists of proto-history, the...
Human Brand | How about a hug?
Fred R. Conrad/The New York Times Warmth, affection, connection, community: physical social networks and emerging branding trends. It's been suggested that the phenomenon of teenagers hugging has something to do with Michelle Obama. She hugs everyone. She's even been...
Who do you love? Google | Social Networks?
Who do you trust? Facebook search engine results? Your friend's a brand. Google has long been the apex of search mechanisms, beating out the rivals of Yahoo, and still, so too, emergent entity bing.com. But Google has its sights on the social space, such as Facebook,...
Twitter-out | Twitter-in’
(Twitter founders: Jack Dorsey, Biz Stone, Evan Williams) Jessica B. Lifland | USA TODAY Who stays, who goes? I can't push too hard on the proposition that I have anything truly ground breaking, in the context of twitterology, the new science of micro-blogging. My...
The alphabet and the earth
Images credit The geography of the mind, mapped in place In a way, any drawing that we create, is a kind of signature. Designing is demarcation. And the origin of the alphabet, stretching back 3,500 to 4,000 years ago, to the proto-sinaitic beginnings is, in fact, a...
200 million @ Facebook: Brand and Human Storytelling
What brands face, in Facebook? Many, if their culture is robust enough... In the metaphor of communing, there are layers -- circles -- of connections that we have with each other and our friends. A drop, ripples. Stories are told -- they are shared, and they spread,...