Mike Renaud
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Mike Renaud
Today’s most vital cultural forms are your identity, personality, and image. And in this new cultural paradigm, the artist’s performance of themself is often more important than the art they make. The persona is the message.
Dean Kissick • The Downward Spiral: Persona (Part I)
DISTINCTIVENESS is the quality that causes a brand expression to stand out from competing messages. If it doesn’t stand out, the game is over. Distinctiveness often requires boldness, innovation, surprise, and clarity, not to mention courage on the part of the company.
Marty Neumier • The Brand Gap: How to Bridge the Distance Between Business Strategy and Design
Type specimens are time capsules of typographic history. There is no substitute for seeing them in person, but you can now use a web browser to track the evolution of type design through the pages of over two hundred manufacturer catalogs from the sixteenth through the twentieth centuries. For years, I accessed these books via an unwieldy pile of... See more
Specimen Books of Metal & Wood Type
Who’s going to bother with all the work it takes to make a track successful on streaming services, if you can net more revenue faster through much more pleasant dynamics on your own terms?
Bas Grasmayer • ✖️ How the emerging Web3 WILL and WON’T disrupt music streaming
