Category Archives: Marketing/Advertising/Media

sales ID trick: totally made man

Posted on December 4, 2012 by Dave

by Art Chantry: this is another one of those record covers that i consider absolutely perfect, even exquisite. granted, it’s not a recent cover or even a very famous cover. but, it’s absolutely impeccable in concept, execution and intent. i … Continue reading →

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such a deal for you

Posted on December 3, 2012 by Dave

You can sell anything. Everything is negotiable. RIP Ziggy. Zig Ziglar, an American original that harks back to the old Yankee salesman, something out of Constance Rourke’s Americana treasury and Herman Melville and that old American archetype “the untrustworthy narrator.” … Continue reading →

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sky river highs on the helix

Posted on November 30, 2012 by Dave

by Art Chantry: when walt crowley recently passed away, he was memorialized as a local seattle/washington state popular historian. his many books and articles written about local history (both old and new) firmly established him in the popular zeitgeist and … Continue reading →

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ironies abound

Posted on November 29, 2012 by Dave

The ironies abound.Time Magazine cover photo showing Egypt’s first Islamist president was taken by a Jewish Israeli. Time magazine covers as the kiss of death? Time’s person of the year award?….Egypt has never respected the Camp David Sinai peace treaty … Continue reading →

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turning the bull loose

Posted on November 23, 2012 by Dave

Very insightful to listen to an interview between Pimm Fox of Bloomberg and Michael D. Robbins and his long experience with the New York Stock Exchange as a floor trader and later brokerage owner, a career which began in the … Continue reading →

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meme machine

Posted on November 23, 2012 by Dave

The Obama meme machine. Not impressed? There is little doubt that Barack Obama’s unique relationship to popular culture contributed to the mystique of Obama as brand and marketing phenomenon like no other, completely masking the reality of the president being … Continue reading →

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built to last

Posted on November 19, 2012 by Dave

It’s about value, and expectations and connecting to the past and its older tradition of craftsmanship, durability, reliability and value and away from the morass of the expendable, the disposable and the outright pieces of junk that form the basis … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media | Tagged bauhaus design, Bruce Rosenstein, Darren Mullen Kenwood, David Allan painter, David Allan painter Scotland, Kenwood Cooking Chef, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, peter drucker, Sir Francis Cotes | Leave a comment

between the raindrops

Posted on November 17, 2012 by Dave

Padding the wallet. Balzac – Behind every great fortune lies a crime. Behind every great fortune is a crime. Or perhaps a multiple series of crimes, a chain actions leading toward some altar of infinite power. The translation of Balzac’s original … Continue reading →

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good to the last bite

Posted on November 16, 2012 by Dave

by Jesse Marinoff Reyes: Hostess Fruit Pies DC Comics ad, ca. 1975 Illustration: undocumented, but my guess is either Murphy Anderson or Curt Swan, pencils, and likely Vince Colletta, inks. …Farewell Hostess Brands 1930-2012. Upon further review, Hostess sponsored these … Continue reading →

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the state has no business in the bedrooms

Posted on October 29, 2012 by Dave

of the nation’s citizens, unless of course its to go bottom feeding for the lowest common denominator among first time voters. This is a new elan in presidential politics, but whatever the value it demonstrates how the institution of government … Continue reading →