Category Archives: Branding

Branding from the inside out

Back in October of 2007, John Quelch of WPP and professor since 1979 at the Harvard Business School, shared his insight with Laura Mazur and Louella Miles regarding the power of “branding an ingredient” as a key to better marketing a larger or more complex product or service.  ”When is the provider of the final product or service willing to compromise its own brand-building to add the […]

BP Is Greenwashing

This summer Kolbrener published a newsletter on Greenwashing, the practice of talking the green talk in your marketing and advertising but not necessarily walking the green walk. Essentially, if you’re going to execute a campaign incorporating “Green”, then your actions better be as substantive as your ads or your brand will suffer. BP is going […]

Form two lines!

I just wanted a cup of coffee! There I was waiting in line at a popular coffee establishment for the better part of 15 minutes for a freakin’ cup of coffee! Maybe the barista is working off a hangover? Maybe the 4 people ahead of me don’t speak the made up coffee language on the […]

Campaign Logos 2008

The Iraq War, Health Care, Tax Reform, Social Security, Terrorism, Global Warming. All issues to debated until the elections determine who wins the 2008 Presidential Election, for sure. But none of those topics come into play in this forum. What matters here is the design of the political campaign logos — these identities are as […]