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Urban Outfitters

The nonprofit Sweat Equity Enterprises equips firms from Radio Shack to Skechers with product designs and marketing ideas from inner-city youth.READ»

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Obscura Digital: iGoogle Artist Themes

One of Obscura's best known projects, iGoogle Artist Themes involved turning an entire city block of the Meatpacking District in New York into a series of projected, interactive billboards, where the work of artists like Jeff Koons ...READ»

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Logos Get Lost in the Supermarket, Here's Why

With consumer focus shifting towards lines like Walmart's Great Value brand, Jamey Boiter wonders if the days of bright, colorful, attractive logos might be numbered.READ»

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Can Bank Brands Ever Earn Back Our Trust?

Nearly 200 financial brands, including huge institutions like Lehman Brothers and Merrill Lynch are gone, and brands like Citi and Bank of America have suffered crushing PR blows.READ»

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Obscura Digital Can Make Your Brand Big...Really, Really Big

We recently named the firm Obscura Digital one of the top ten innovative companies in advertising and marketing, but their work really puts traditional advertising to shame. Obscura first worked the festival circuit, creating ...READ»

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Can Brands Launch Sustainable Campaigns Without Being Accused of Greenwashing?

Consumers have become much more savvy about knowing what brands really are green and which ones aren't. So if a company suddenly launches its first sustainable campaign, people get suspicious.READ»

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Graffiti Madness

Today's Adrants highlights the fight "anti-graffiti mouthpiece" Queens Councilman Peter Vallone is picking with Atari for their new videogame that "features a young graffiti artist up against corrupt officials and rival gangs as he ...READ»

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TOMS Shoes Teaches Consumer Empathy With a Day Spent Barefoot

The shoe company that provides one pair of shoes for children in need for each pair sold encourages its audience to participate in its brand promise with the global event One Day Without Shoes.READ»

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Advice for BP: Change Your Name Back to Amoco

BP bought out the American petroleum company and changed its name. Now might be a good time to go back.READ»

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Did HBO's 'True Blood' Campaign Achieve Immortality or Just Plain Suck?

Sunday night played host to an anxiously-awaited television event on our newly all-digital TV signals (and we're not talking about the Lakers' victory). It was the premiere of the second season of True Blood, the vampiric HBO show ...READ»

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Introducing Guest Blogger Jamey Boiter: The Brand Innovator

We were first introduced to Jamey Boiter the same way we meet many of our favorite designers: As the subject of one of our Designers Accord case studies.READ»

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Advice to BP: Forget Your Brand Image and Concentrate on Your Brand's Soul

Jamey Boiter thinks BP should change its name again: From "beyond petroleum" to "better pray."READ»

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From "Top Kill" to "Dead Man's Switch": What BP's Oil Spill Lexicon Reveals About Its Brand

As BP scrambles to stop the leak, the misguided brand is drowning in poor word choices that are making its failing efforts feel even worse.READ»

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A Mad Man Gets His Head Together

Maurice Lévy, CEO of Publicis Groupe, has bet more than $1 Billion that he can define the future of digital advertising. Getting there has been enough to make anyone a little schizophrenic. READ»

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Beyond CSI: Inside Anthony Zuiker's New Cross-Platform Experiment

Anthony Zuiker created CSI, generating more than $6 billion. But with his new cross-platform experiment, his killer instinct is really kicking in.READ»