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Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010

Nice (art) work if you can get it

Here’s something fun to work on if you have a few minutes – and interest in earning a few bucks.
On Friday, the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) posted an invitation to contractors to submit designs for a new “Art Works” logo.  You can download your own copy of the RFP off our site or [...]

Comments Off - Posted in Brand Crafting, Brand USA by Mike Bawden

Monday, February 1st, 2010

Mancrunch’s publicity stunt gets outed.

They say the fasted way to kill a bad product is with good advertising.
I suppose it was just a matter of time before the Mancrunch stunt finally raised enough hackles in the gay community to motivate a few curious bloggers to do the legwork necessary to find out what was really going on.  Kudo’s to Lyndon Evans [...]

1 Comment » - Posted in Advertising, Media, Public Relations by Mike Bawden

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