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Seth Godin on Typography

Advertising, Branding, Business, Graphic Design, Social Media, Typography, Web Design

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“Typography is what sets Apple, at first glance, apart from just about everyone at the mall. Typography is what makes a self-published book often look pale in comparison to a ‘real’ one. Typography (or the lack thereof) is a safety hazard on airplanes (who decided that all the safety labels should be in ALL CAPS)?

The choice of a typeface, the care given to kerning and to readability—it all sends a powerful signal. When your business card is nothing but Arial on a piece of cardboard, you’ve just told people how they ought to think about you… precisely the opposite of what you were trying to do when you made the card in the first place” From Seth Godin

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Neutrality Through Censorship?

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BBDO recently produced a very respectable advertisement for Swanson in The Advocate involving a lesbian couple. The AFA (American Family Association) is asking Campbell to pull the ad in order to stay “neutral”. However, it seems bizarre that the concept of neutrality would be based on a lack of discussion, rather than an all-inclusive discussion in which not one side is taken but rather all sides are presented equally. This narrow-minded viewpoint seems archaic and outdated, not to mention fruitless. Read about it here.

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Creative Juices: Harvest

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Guys and Shopping Habits

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The article in today’s AdAge touched on an interesting point that men are excluded from the target audience when it comes to most products in the grocery store. The products that are targeted towards men, they know pretty well. hmmm this would have been an interesting target for a project.

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Miller Commercial Recaps Superbowl Commercial

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