Category Archives: Brand

On argument, instruction and authenticity

By tim | Published: 25/08/2011

It’s refreshing to see a business have and express a point of view

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Passing thoughts

By tim | Published: 22/07/2011

Why have they made one of the most historically rich parts of London sound like an area in Manhattan?

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Postcards from Paradise

By tom | Published: 07/07/2011

Who needs the hassle of traffic jams, rammed airports, heaving ferries and bloated beaches when you can hang out at the Southbank. This glorious rolling festival has been the hit of the summer with thrilling exhibitions, ambush fountains, curious pavilions, an allotment in the sky, and an intriguing language installation that has set everyone talking [...]

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Colourful language

By tim | Published: 21/06/2011

I saw this lovely shop in Delft. I was rather taken with the poem they have in the window – a characterful piece of DIY brand writing.

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Ruminations

By tim | Published: 24/05/2011

I picked up a carton of the milk chocolate version, looked at the packaging and entered a parallel world of Modern Milk-soaked surrealism.

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LCC — Writing and design

By tim | Published: 19/05/2011

For those of you who were unfortunate enough to endure my talk on writing, design, branding and communication at the London College of Communication; here are those background sources I referred to. And if you weren’t there – some of these might prove interesting anyway. On branding Living identity by Moving Brands Logos are dead [...]

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Southbank Centre celebrates the Festival of Britain

By tom | Published: 10/05/2011

The English language is a mixed-up, muddled-up, shook-up wonder and the great leveller we all have in common.

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The music of writing

By tim | Published: 25/04/2011

Bernbach’s position reflects both the interest Madison Avenue developed in psychology and its cynical fantasy that it controlled people’s behaviour.

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Some problems with ‘tone of voice’

By tim | Published: 01/12/2010

Public bodies should only launch anti-jargon ‘campaigns’, ‘drives’, ‘initiatives’ and ‘guides’ if they really are trying to make a lasting improvement to their language.

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