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Brand is why you care about your relationship with a company (c/o Phil Chang).
Brand strategy is the practice of building that relationship through a system of values that imprint themselves throughout the entire business–visual identity, customer interactions, corporate culture.
Reflecting on this email from a Sublime believer:
Consuming media has become a massive time-suck for humankind. Only decades ago, the average person had one source of information, if any — the newspaper. Journalists chronicled happenings relevant to their community. And that was it. Someone got married, someone is selling their house, someone died,
... See moreTaking architecture seriously therefore makes some singular and strenuous demands upon us. It requires that we open ourselves to the idea that we are affected by our surroundings even when they are made of vinyl and would be expensive and time-consuming to ameliorate. It means conceding that we are inconveniently vulnerable to the colour of our
... See moreAlain de Botton • The Architecture of Happiness (Vintage International)
But when architecture falls out of sync with the conditions we live in, home begins to feel more and more precarious. The reason we dislike contemporary architecture is because it fails to achieve this essential purpose, to, as the architect Antonio Sant’Elia put it, “freely and audaciously harmonize man with his environment”.
Noah Putnam • The Concrete Oasis
'Architects have to stop thinking in terms of buildings only. Built and physical architecture, freed from the technological limitations of the past, will more intensely work with spatial qualities as well as the psychological ones. The process of erection will get a new meaning, spaces will have more consciously have haptic, optic and acoustic... See more
Rion Willard • "Everything is Architecture" - Hans Hollein
“When I’m happy, it’s your shine,” Batiste sings. As always, he makes joy sound genuine.
Music Review: Jon Batiste opts for chill vibe on stripped-down album, 'Big Money'
on Jon Batiste
