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March 08, 2010

Boldly Blogging…

I finally got round to watching the new Star Trek film at the weekend; it’s great entertainment. Lots of jaw-dropping special effects, some unexpected humour, plenty of nail-biting sequences and a theme running strongly throughout – the balance of logic, reason and science (Spock) with heart, feeling and instinct (Kirk) that’s essential to any successful [...]

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January 18, 2010

Ooo Eee Ooo Ahh Ahh: Vowel Sounds That Sell

This piece from The New York Times, Monday, January 18, 2010, is worth noting:
Vowel Sounds Influence Consumers’ Perception of Prices
By ALEX MINDLIN
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/18/business/18drill.html
Researchers have known for 80 years about a symbolic connection between speech and size: back-of-the-mouth vowels like the “o” in “two” make people think of large sizes, whereas people associate front-of-the-mouth vowels like “ee” [...]

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January 14, 2010

How to Get the Most from Your Agency

The average tenure of agency-client relationships seems to have rapidly diminished over the past couple of decades. In the mid-’80s it was hovering around seven to eight years. In late ’90s it eroded to a little more than five years. Today, some reports have agency-client relationships averaging slightly more than two years. What a travesty!
Everyone [...]

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December 03, 2009

DIRECTOR OR CURATOR?

The time has come, the word ‘integrated’ has been torn from pillar to post, spouting offshoots like ‘seamless’ and ‘media-neutral’ along the way until it has become its own parody, and now, you must decide if you are New World or Old World. Our own mini Apartheid is over, the wall has been torn down, [...]

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