Category Archives: Just plain wrong
[AWESOMETOWN?]
OK, you’d think we might have learned from the last time we aimed some criticism at a city re-branding effort. But you’d be wrong.
While we applaud the colloquial chutzpah of the effort, this is an example of execution simply letting down what could have been an interesting idea. Because OMG, I like totally don’t want [...]
[I HOPE TO GOD THEIR MECHANICS ARE BETTER THAN THEIR DESIGN FIRM.]
I recently flew Continental and was struck by how both their visual sensibility and their Boeing aircraft date from some time in the early to mid-90s. From the logo to the magazine, the seat upholstery to the inflight entertainment, everything was both weird and hilariously dated. And nowhere was this more apparent than in the [...]
[YALE RHYMES WITH… HMMM… OH, RIGHT: FAIL.]
In the interest of full disclosure, I must go on the record that I went to Harvard. So there may be some unconscious bias on my part.
Let me set the scene as I imagine it unfolding: a stodgy, traditional university is starting to suspect that they may be falling behind the times from a marketing [...]
[DOING PRODUCT PLACEMENT IS LIKE RUNNING A NUCLEAR REACTOR.]
If you don’t know what you’re doing, I’d really prefer if you didn’t try it. The other day I was watching “Heroes” and was unfortunately exposed to near-lethal doses of egregious product placement. I now have cancer. Thanks NBC.
The show featured not-so-subtle placements for Scion and Legal Seafood with the worst offender being an [...]
[HOW TO DEFEAT HEALTH CARE REFORM.]
Yes, the mobs of angry people are a threat to any major change to health care in this country. But they can’t hold a candle to the damage to our nation’s health created by the amazing imagination of the food industry’s engineers.
Does it really matter whether we have a “single payer” or a “private option” [...]