branding

Get Rid of Logos On Your Devices

Get Rid of Logos On Your Devices

According to this tutorial, with a bit of tape, persistence, and sugar cubes, you can easily remove logo stickers from your cellphone, PDA or whateva.

Children’s ER Names Itself After Abercrombie & Fitch

Children’s ER Names Itself After Abercrombie & Fitch

Branding is everywhere, billboards, sky-writing and even in your pants (check the label, bub). Always seeking new ways to expand message penetration, companies have turned to sponsoring buildings, such as the Pepsi Center and Coors Field. The field of viable sports venues depleted, corporations have turned to the next killing field: hospitals!

MasterCard’s New Logo Gets Goatse

MasterCard’s New Logo Gets Goatse

Apparently, Mastercard really is for everything else, as communicated by its new logo.

Burn, Brand, Burn

Burn, Brand, Burn

On August 8th, Neil Borman will gather up everything he owns that has a logo on it.

Starbucks Soon To Equal Coffee?

Starbucks Soon To Equal Coffee?

Over at Branding Post, we saw this quote about a grim dystopian future in which the word coffee no longer exists: when you pendulously breasted IHOP waitress emerges in a puff of brown cigarette smoke from the kitchens to demand your order, you won’t ask for a cup of coffee. You’ll ask for a Starbucks.

Dunkin’ Starbucks

Dunkin’ Starbucks

Dunkin’ Donuts is apparently looking to Starbuck itself. Which would make a hell of a lot more sense if Dunkin’ Donuts’ customers didn’t hate Starbucks.

Kids Who Wear Alcohol-Branded Shirts More Likely To Get Loaded

Kids Who Wear Alcohol-Branded Shirts More Likely To Get Loaded

That small child wearing the “I’m not as think as you drunk I am” t-shirt might be more likely to engage in pre-teen boozing, according to a recent Dartmouth Medical School study.

Ovulating Ovals: Intel Inside

Ovulating Ovals: Intel Inside

The oval is the go-to shape for logos looking to vaguely state, “We’re ready to take you in a lazy orbit around our life-giving brand.” In honor of Intel’s new logo, Hurty Elbow has collected a couple dozen logos for you to peruse and confuse into one conflicting jumble of brandiness.