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Starbucks’ Mission Statement Writers May Have Had One Too Many Venti...
The design community is abuzz with yesterday’s launch of the modified Starbucks logo into the real world. The visual vocabulary is clever and innocuous even if it is a little too now to be timeless,...
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Kumon Logo Strikes Precisely the Right Note of Misery
Our last post on the fuzzy math of social media got us thinking of . . . the 3Rs, back to school, and more precisely, back to school performance! In the race to ever greater achievement, never have a...
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Want to Build a High-Performance Organization? Pay Your People Less.
A growing amount of research (here’s a 2005 business study, and a recent abstract from education) could spell bad news for those of us who measure our value by our paycheck. On the other hand, it...
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A New Low for Logos: A Hundred Bucks in Bugs
As we have noted ad nauseum, brands and logos are not the same, and a logo does not a brand make. That said, visually distinctive logos and great design are essential brand-building tools. They serve...
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Sports Brands: How Much Testosterone is Too Much?
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The Beginning of the End of Scrolling Home Pages?
The last few years have seen an explosion of long, scrolling home pages. You know the kind we mean: Nike (their betterworld site). Hubspot. Even the Milwaukee PD. Not only can they look cool, they...
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Starbucks’ Mission Statement Writers May Have Had One Too Many Venti...
The design community is abuzz with yesterday’s launch of the modified Starbucks logo into the real world. The visual vocabulary is clever and innocuous even if it is a little too now to be timeless,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Kumon Logo Strikes Precisely the Right Note of Misery
Our last post on the fuzzy math of social media got us thinking of . . . the 3Rs, back to school, and more precisely, back to school performance! In the race to ever greater achievement, never have a...
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Want to Build a High-Performance Organization? Pay Your People Less.
A growing amount of research (here’s a 2005 business study, and a recent abstract from education) could spell bad news for those of us who measure our value by our paycheck. On the other hand, it...
View ArticleClik here to view.
A New Low for Logos: A Hundred Bucks in Bugs
As we have noted ad nauseum, brands and logos are not the same, and a logo does not a brand make. That said, visually distinctive logos and great design are essential brand-building tools. They serve...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Sports Brands: How Much Testosterone is Too Much?
Have you seen some of the recent sports branding work done by American universities? Or, rather, done by universities with the help of Nike’s Graphic Identity Group? This flat, angry look is becoming a...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Beginning of the End of Scrolling Home Pages?
The last few years have seen an explosion of long, scrolling home pages. You know the kind we mean: Nike (their betterworld site). Hubspot. Even the Milwaukee PD. Not only can they look cool, they...
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