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• Brandalizm™

  Posted on October 22nd, 2009

  Written by sally

  Tags

  authentic voices, brand, business, information, micro blogging, opinions, public, sharing, twitter, twitterverse

  Are They Talking About You Right Now?

  

  HSBC Holdings plc is a multi-national banking corporation that is taking a PR beating thanks to a cheeky social media company that decided to use it as an example of how potent online public opinion can be.

  Definitely not an official site by any means, it’s quite simple – they pull in mentions of HSBC from the Twittersphere, then classifies them as a Fail or a Win for the bank…

• Brandalizm™

  Posted on September 3rd, 2009

  Written by sally

  Tags

  appropriation, brand, decoration, house, logo, louis vuitton, LV, monogram

  The House That LV Didn’t Build

  

  I came across what I thought was a perfect piece of Brandalizm. While blogs of the world try to figure out whether this house is “for real” I thought it was such a great example of Brandalizm™ I couldn’t resist posting it. Brandalizm says: “You don’t own your brand, I do.”™

• Brandalizm™

  Posted on June 15th, 2009

  Written by sofia

  Tags

  art, Barely Legal™, beauty, Belonging, Brandalizm™, current issues, doomsday, dvr, entertainment, fairy tales, heartbreak, juxtaposition, obesity, perfection, photography, princesses, reality, scenarios, stories, Walt Disney, war

  Loss Of Innocence

  

  Here are the true “modern day scenarios” of what happened to our childhood fairytale princesses. Belle. Snow White, Cinderella, Rapunzel, even Jasmine –all fallen to a world of hatred, disease, gluttony, superficiality, and heartbreak. The artist, Dina Goldstein, says of her “Fallen Princesses” collection: “…The happily ever after is replaced with a realistic outcome and [...]

• Brandalizm™

  Posted on May 12th, 2009

  Written by locke

  Tags

  advertising, apple, Belonging, Brandalizm™, entertainment, laptop hunters, mac vs pc, parody, windows

  Mac vs. PC vs. Mac vs. Pc vs. Mac

  

  Oh Mac vs. PC, you never seem to get boring. Usually, after a year or so of the same type of ads most companies find themselves in a repetitive rut with no chance of pulling out ala Yo Quiero Taco Bell and the Budweiser Frogs. However, Apple manages to keep things funny and fresh with [...]

• Brandalizm™

  Posted on May 7th, 2009

  Written by sofia

  Tags

  apple, Belonging, Brandalizm™, business, camera, concepts, convenience, design, do all, gamers, gps, iphone, omni-gadgets, Pop-Up Lifestyle™, projector, psp, rfid, technology, touch screen, tuner, tv

  The iWish

  

  Brands no longer have to hire creative people for their research and development department to come up with new product ideas. All they need to do is  look at blogs like Planet Mat, where fans post their dream gadget concepts hoping and wishing brands might take a hint. In this case we have the power [...]

• Brandalizm™, Virtual Forest™

  Posted on May 5th, 2009

  Written by locke

  Tags

  adobe, adobe illustrator, after effects, Belonging, Brandalizm™, design, dream weaver, flash, indesign, photoshop, pillows, Virtual Forest™

  Adobe App. Pillows

  

  Can I just say how in love I am with these? I’m sure we’re all well aware I’m a huge geek so just give me my moment in the sun (while laying on a Photoshop pillow dreaming about brush sets of course!). Brandalizm™ and Virtual Forest™ in one comfy little package.

• Brandalizm™

  Posted on April 16th, 2009

  Written by sally

  Tags

  alcohol, Brandalizm™, chicken, drink, food, food hack, hack, martini, mcdonalds, mcnugget, well being

  Chicken of the Scene

  

  BRANDALIZM: “You don’t own your brand – I do.”  These might not have been the exact words these gals were thinking at Last Call when the inspiration for The McNuggetini hit but it still rings true. They posted a step by step recipe online and the link to the “late night/after hours snack/drink” got forwarded [...]

• Brandalizm™

  Posted on January 19th, 2009

  Written by sofia

  Tags

  ads, airbrush, beauty, Belonging, billboards, Brandalizm™, Corporate Hating™, Esteem, expression, germany, graffiti, models, perfection, reality, well being

  “Don’t Forget…”

  

  Recently uploaded to the photo sharing website Flickr, these photographs (amongst others) serve as a reminder behind the reality of the beauty and perfection achieved on billboards and advertisements. Captured at the Kaiserdamm Metro Station in Berlin, Photoshop toolbar screen capture posters were pasted onto the billboards around models face and eyes, showing the intricate [...]

• Brandalizm™

  Posted on December 12th, 2008

  Written by admin

  Tags

  bailout, Belonging, Brandalizm™, business, cheer, corporation, crisis, demand, design, economy, fail, layoff, logo, parody, redo, struggle

  A Parody of Logos

  

  We’re glad to see there’s some out there having a little fun with the previously God like respected logos of failing or ailing corporations out there. With government (i.e. taxpayer bailouts) and unemployment continuously growing, we’re betting there’s a little bit of resentment, sneer, and disappointment in the air this holiday season. Ironically, some consumers [...]

• Brandalizm™

  Posted on November 28th, 2008

  Written by admin

  Tags

  Belonging, brand identification, Brandalizm™, culture, design, harley-davidson, motorcycle, riyadh hog, saudi arabia

  And a steel camel I ride?

  

  It’s doubtless a stereotypical thing to  make the horse/camel analogy that was in the title of a recent   C S Monitor article about the Harley Davidson motorcycle club that was formed in Riyahd, Saudi Arabia. The whole idea of a Middle East Harley Owners Group (HOG for short, naturally) seems to me to be [...]

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