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Augury | the President of the United States | Barack Obama
Molly Riley | Reuters This morning, early, a deep mist is crossing the channels of Puget Sound -- and the foghorns are calling out. I believe they are saying -- "I'm over here. Don't come over here", or something like that. Which has been contrary to our experience in...
Hotel for Dogs | Branding
Exploring the ideation of identity in theatrical advertising What is it about dogs? How is it, after thousands of years, we have this undeniable link with dogs? We immediately attach personality to them. We see something in dogs? And we see, perhaps, something of...
Human Brands | Karl Lagerfeld
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is the fourth in a series on Human Brand | defining the inextricable link between people, founding...
Björk | Venturing Forth
Björk, the venture capital of the imagination. Björk "I will not be able to live with my own conscience when my grandchildren drive around Iceland and it's just full of factories and smelters." -Björk My first connection with Björk was through the Wachowski brothers,...
Valkyrie | Tom Cruise | Design
Motion picture design, identity and historical context: visual propaganda. I first met Mr. Cruise, working with him, and the Paramount Studio marketing leadership team -- with Jerry Bruckheimer -- for Top Gun. Then, after that, Days of Thunder, working more closely...
Fauchon | True Brands: Beautiful Authenticity | Truth in the telling (2nd in a series)
I’ve been looking for truth. I’m looking for truth in my self — what do I do, in practicing what I tell, preach, to others. And telling the truth in the reign of the firm — what we do, what we offer, and how we go about doing it, in finding the truth and the heart of...
Human Brands | Clint Eastwood
This is the third in a series on Human Brand | defining the inextricable link between people, founding vision and the brands that they produce. "Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt,...
What is cool? Hunting for the definition of cool.
His Holiness the Dalai Lama Congratulates Barack Obama Exploring definition of trend, in action, in the pursuit of the new. "The works must be conceived with fire in the soul but executed with clinical coolness." Joan Miro I've wondered about the concept of cool. What...
Brand patterning: creating patterned reflections of brand identity
Exploring integrative identity and developmental work on the House of Orange, Valentino, Bardessono and Harvey Nichols | Jakarta -- logo story in brandplace and other case studies. There's an implication in the current realm of testing behavorial study, that people...
Yves Saint Laurent | Marrakech, Morocco
Saying goodbye at the Majorelle Gardens. I did gesture to good bye, at his passing, along with, of course, millions of others -- June | 2008. And most of the designers of significance on the planet: http://www.wwd.com/au_revoir_yves And, that closing in Marrakech, a...