It’s Grammar Game Time!

With the start of football season signaling the fast-approaching fall weather, we thought we’d offer you guys a little grammar game to exercise your brains this week. Typos and grammatical errors are bad for your brand. Period. Grammatical mistakes make you look...

Ancient Brand Knockoffs? Really?

You’ve heard of Gucci and Coach purse knockoffs or Rolex watch knockoffs, but have you ever heard of an Ulfberht sword knockoff? Brand knockoffs go all the way back to Viking times! As a person with Scandinavian heritage, I couldn’t resist watching Secrets of the...

Comic Sans: The Designer’s Scapegoat

“If you love it, you don’t know much about typography. If you hate it, you really don’t know much about typography either, and you should get another hobby.” ~ Vincent Connare, inventor of Comic Sans Comic Sans: It’s THE font guaranteed to get a reaction out of just...

Royal Baby Branding Boosts

Queen Elizabeth’s father, King George VI, allegedly remarked, “We are not a family; we are a firm.” Hence the royals’ self-appointed nickname for the family: The Firm. Now that we have the newest royal George on our hands with the arrival of little Prince George last...

Bare Bones Brands Quiz

How’s your week going? Time for some fun! Take a look at the following logos. How many of these brands can you recognize from just these images?   How do you think you did? (Write your answers in the comment section below.) Could you recognize and recall all...

Branding for Kids of the ’70s

My husband and I are both children from the 1970s. The ’70s were great as a kid: the colors, the toys, the service announcements! Where Oscar the Grouch was grumpy and Cookie Monster only ate cookies. I think we were the last generation to see uncut Looney Tunes...