Brands
Fresh Impressions on Brandmarks Through the Eyes of a Child
Watch this video on YouTube. Here’s a video rundown of various logos along with an interpretation of a 5-year old. Funny how she thought one logo looks like “little squirms” or worms and tries to associate several logos to colourful … Read
Kodak’s Moment(um) Is Over
This sales chart of Kodak says it all. While camera phones and digital photography in general took off and were climbing endlessly, Kodak’s business continually degraded. The company who used to stand for a whole generation of photographers, consumers and artists … Read
Red Bull Is Insane Or This Guy Is At Least: Jumps Onto Arc De Triomphe With His Motorcycle
Red Bull paid this Australian guy $2,000,000 to jump onto an Arc de Triomphe replica in Las Vegas…with his motocross bike! I never have seen something like this and it’s so extreme it nearly looks like a fake. Watch this … Read
Top 15 Brands On Twitter 2011
Hootsuite, the social media management dashboard, released an infographic showing the top 15 trending brands on twitter from 2011. To round out the trendiest topics they also included Topics, Tags and in Memorium Trends. Interesting to note MySpace is still … Read
Red Bull Special Edition: Cranberry (Red), Blueberry (Blue), Lime (Silver)
While staying in Vienna, Austria (I reported about the first and stylish STABILO Store there), I saw the newly released Red Bull special editions in a supermarket and gave them a try. Personally I’m pretty much a Red Bull addict but my … Read
Stylish STABILO Store In Vienna
I’m spending Christmas holidays in my hometown Vienna, Austria where I spotted a new and stylish store by pen supplier STABILO. It’s the brand’s first flagship store and the architects have done a great job reconstructing a former jewellery shop. … Read
Logorama Wins Oscar 2010 For “Best Animated Short”
Logorama, an animated short by H5, has won an Oscar in the short film category. In a world made up entirely of trademarks and brand names, Michelin Man cops pursue a criminal Ronald McDonald. Awesome! Full video after the click.
Foursquare Rap – Badges Like Us [Video]
![Foursquare Rap – Badges Like Us [Video]](http://www.brandinfection.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/09-250x187.jpg?0d74a5 "Foursquare Rap – Badges Like Us [Video]")
You know when a service evolved from its early-adopter base to the mainstream: somebody creates a rap song about the service. “Badges Like Us” finds Mr. Silva (@borismsilver) and “Newby” (@thenewb) rapping about checking-in all over cities and earning badges. … Read
Most Engaged Brands In Social Media
The social media hype is big with keeping in touch with friends and I’m sure most of you have a facebook or linkedin account, both, or even more accounts. So what do the big brands do for keeping in touch … Read
Video: Fake iPhone Amazingly Real
Amazing what fake means today! Even though this first counterfeit of the iPhone wouldn’t mislead an expert, the things have progressed well, the device being identical from the outside and simulating even the functions of the true device of Apple.
Kodachrome Is Dead
After 74 years in the company’s portfolio Eastman Kodak Co. announced Monday it’s retiring its film brand stock because of declining customer demand in an increasingly digital age. Sales of Kodachrome are now just a fraction of 1 percent of … Read
Grundig: Your Customer Service Sucks!
It all started with a visit to my favorite bar where I saw those stylish speakers hanging down the ceiling. Shortly thereafter I got the Grundig Audiorama 9000 as a gift and was amazed. Such expensive speakers as a gift … Read
Bagua Shoes: Kung Fu Style Sneakers Inspired by Bruce Lee
I got an e-mail the other day from a friendly guy called Philippe Hadey who created his own shoe brand after watching a Bruce Lee Movie: Bagua Shoes. Mixing old and new myths, the Bagua mission is to create stylish … Read
Bing Means Disease In Chinese
Some of you might have heard of Microsoft’s new search engine which was being developed in stealth mode under the name of Kumo. Now that it’s nearly ready to “fight” Google’s dominance Microsoft announced the official name bing and will … Read
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