Yes! Yes! I thought you'd never ask...Oh, wait...
...I mean, yeah. Sure. I guess so...
What have Hallmark and Hershey's done to us? A marketing scheme to sell candy, cards and flowers has instilled warm fuzzies in the hearts of Americans...Unless you are single. Then February 14th causes panic attacks, paranoia and sleepless nights.
As consolation, us single people get to simultaneously celebrate Singles Awareness Day (ironically, abbreviated to "SAD") and if you head over to the SAD webpage, you will find this.
Ha. Ha. Ha.
I am waiting for somebody to come up with the ultimate Valentine's Day reverse marketing idea. Like a restaurant that offers seating in odd numbers only.
-Lindsay, Campaign Manager
Lunch Today: Cheese Sandwich, Peach Snapple
p.s. I would like to thank Roger for showing the V-Day love to the whole Premise team (regardless of our Facebook relationship status). The flowers are beautiful!
Friday, February 13, 2009
Will you be my Valentine?
Posted by Premise at 2/13/2009 02:42:00 PM 0 comments
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
Axed Obama Logos
You may say that waiting until after Obama's historical inauguration to examine some of the campaign logo options is 'a day late a dollar short'. I say nay!
Whether or not you care to acknowledge it, the 2008 Obama campaign was far and away the most successful marketing campaign in history. Only now, with it resting comfortably in the recent past can we truly examine it and recognize it's perfection. The logo was executed by the team at SenderLLC led by Sol Sender himself. I've included some quotes from Sol from an interview found here.
“We developed a lot of logos. Usually we only develop two to four, maybe five. There were fifteen, sixteen options, and we focused on three.”
Final Round:
#1:“This masking of different photos with the O shape became an opportunity to say different things in different moments… The O could contain all these different ideas, possibilities and feelings.”
#2
“There was a lot of excitement about this. People felt this was really something new, something different. It was a kind of populist expression — everyone’s excited about Obama, people are talking… (but) it was a little too far out of the box. We felt that having a little more tradition in the mark was the smart way to go.”
“For me personally, this was always the one.”
John Zappas, Graphic Designer
Lunch: I wish! I had some pizza yesterday. mmmm pizza.
Posted by Premise at 2/03/2009 10:03:00 AM 0 comments
Labels: Art, Graphic Design, Obama