by Bruce Turkel | Jan 1, 2013 | Branding, Building Brand Value
Seven or eight years ago I found myself running into the same predicament over and over again. Our advertising agency would present our branding and marketing concepts to our clients and they would want objective assurances that our ideas would work. Although we were...
by Bruce Turkel | Oct 8, 2012 | Branding
Spending time with people we agree with is a good way to avoid conflict. Watching news shows slanted towards our point of view is a good way to keep from getting too agitated. And reading books that explore the positions and opinions that mirror our own is a mighty...
by Bruce Turkel | Sep 18, 2012 | Branding
There’s an old story about the pessimist father who wanted to teach his optimist son a lesson. The only thing the kid wanted for his birthday was a pony. So on his birthday, when the kid was away at school, his dad called the local feed store and had his...
by Bruce Turkel | Aug 20, 2012 | Branding
Take a look at Mazda’s logo. Notice anything strange? How about that all the letters are lower case except the D which is upper case (the Z could be either upper or lower case). Is that a good use of designer license or is it lazy typography? Does it matter? How...
by Bruce Turkel | Aug 13, 2012 | Branding
Every day I get emails from salesmen asking me to forward their note to the “proper person in my office” who handles whatever it is that they’re selling. I’ll bet you do too. Do they think we’re going to drop what we’re doing and bird-dog their...
