By Neil McBean on Wednesday, October 29, 2008Filed Under: Advertising, Communicating, Design, Marketing
Sure, I mention brand from time to time. I have to. Part of my job.
But in the context of a campaign brand doesn’t always matter. This is particularly true of utility brands like those of software, energy and health products (as opposed to lifestyle brands). Given that you have a good product, simply raising awareness [...]
By Neil McBean on Monday, October 27, 2008Filed Under: Advertising, Design, Marketing
I recently read a post by Seth Godin on logo design, or more specifically logo re-design, undertaken by Best Buy and Pepsi. Godin points out that logo design can’t increase market share, since logos are just identifiers.
I have to add a definitive ‘sort of’ to the point. Logos should be a visual expression of brand, and as bits of visual [...]
By Neil McBean on Saturday, October 18, 2008Filed Under: Company News, Design, Production
Lately we’ve been working on our rendering. I thought we could do better, so we’ve been tinkering with our pipeline. I’ve been testing out a mixed render system, similar to what the big shops use, adapted to our smaller shop setup. As most of our client work is under some kind of NDA, I thought [...]