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 son’s bedroom...
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 about...
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 sales leads for them?...
by Bruce Turkel | Apr 4, 2012 | Uncategorized
Creative designer David Kustin was sitting comfortably behind a steaming cup of coffee at our conference table. He was starting to tell me about his background and how he got into the branding business. “I’m a South Florida native,” he said. (I’m a South Florida...
by Bruce Turkel | Feb 27, 2012 | Uncategorized
A few weeks ago I posted the question, What Business Are You In? I got lots of answers, both on and off the comment section of the blog. Many of them were very insightful — most readers understand that the reason their customers buy from them is often quite different...
