Archive - Jan 28, 2005

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Not-so-great Moments in Branding

Otis Spunkmeyer. Can you tell that's a made-up, awful company name? Of course you can.

Branding is a recurring theme in William Gibson's Pattern Recognition, which includes the theory that the Tommy Hilfiger brand, because of its incredibly derivative and obviously calculated style, is the most soulless brand ever (this is important, because the main character is allergic to bad branding).