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The branding section of BusinessWeek has been updated with new content; you can find it here.

Some more design featured in the Marketing world via fast company’s Special issue on Master of design
essentially the sphere of the star designers with a good looking face an an ego high enough that can commend high dollars fees. I am talking, Yves Behar, Philippe Stark, bob Greenberg, ( Bob, that nike interface is smoking good) Paola Antonelli etc. Noneless to say that these guys also have some serious stroke of geniuses on a regular basis…

I also ecommend the segment on Dog accessories, i love the branch bone that fit on the chair leg. (these damn dogs wont destroy our 6k-designer chairs anymore!)

Actually the entire GAIA and GINO exercise on dog accessories presented at the Pets Fashion Week (yes its mindboggling) deserve a look, provided you are obsessed with your best friend.

the September issue of CREATIVE REVIEW, the british magazine for the esthetic minded feature an odd if, interesting article about “the new ugly” notably featuring the infamous London 2012 identity, already mentioned earlier on this blog as well as the propention to distort default font vertically. THere seems to be a rampant trend for deliberately ugly design for the sole purpose of grabbing attention. Not very surprising considering the constant branding carpet bombing we have to endure on a daily basis. May be they should spend more time on the corporate side and see how trendy sales people can be designing powerpoint presentations 3 hours before their pitch.

the real estate crash is surely getting in full gear in the U.S. and it has been coming up for months now.
It became more obvious when , last week , the UK based Real Estate company FOXTONS filed chapter 11 with the U.S. District Court of Bankrupcy, as a sub link, the realtor posted a message here, they also fired about 340 staffers out of 360 people. The only thing I would be interested to know is where is the fleet of branded mini cooper going to end up? on ebay, as a public auction? damn i wish i bought some of these ENRON stress ball…

A few more people over the last few weeks; Heather Vance is the new voice and help out Dina, Jessica Rivchin just joined today and will be working with Carolyn and Kristen in the PR/Comm department.

Also in Singapore Sophia Ng started today.

Welcome to all!