I have one thing to say about the new Jack-in-the-Box logo: Only a   ass would like this redesign. If you haven’t seen it yet, check out the Brand New writeup about it and you will also notice a barrage of negative comments regarding the design (just to give my view point a bit more credibili...

Looking for Comedy in the Consumer World …  photo credit: faeryboots Bring back my Tropicana! First, those smarties at Tropicana figured out that their fresh, hip new package design in a word, SUCKED. Consumers, in all their wisdom, loathed the new look and rightfully so. (Remember, I called ...

The Tropicana redesign disaster seemed strangely familiar to us, and we just now realized why: the Simpsons already did it. Here's our highly-researched evidence: 1. Poochie was dreamed up by marketers. The new Tropicana packaging was the result of overpaid marketing types. 2. The new design was vet...

I’m watching a Peanuts episode where Charlie Brown becomes neurotic about giving the “little red hair girl” a valentine. Happy Valentine’s Day Website! This was the first time in a long while where I can just sit down and do some redesigning on this thing. Usually I spend so ...

The new look Saturday Times is set to reveal its new look this weekend.  The paper, which is edited by Eleanor Mills, has undergone a revamp and will now boast 'four new sections - sport, Saturday Review (a broadsheet for arts and books), Weekend (lifestyle) and Playlist (an A5-shaped what's on...

Two days ago I asked if I should move some of the more advanced content to another blog. The result currently stands at 47% no voters to 41% yes voters with 12% saying they do not care. This reflects why the decision is that hard to make and why it takes so long to come to a decision. I’m curr...

This was really a ReTweet from Johannes, but my mind started working and it got sort of out of hand for a tweet. Both his comment and link was excellent: Software tends towards more technical debt. Without the discipline to reverse this, we won’t succeed in a rewrite either. - Johannes Brodwal...

Filed under: Openings, Asia, America, Fast Food The point of fast-food franchises is instant familiarity--every outlet serving the same food under the same sign in essentially the same building. But McDonald's has been messing with that paradigm, opening new restaurants that are hard to recognize as...

So, hubby and I are moving through the aisles at our local grocery store picking up assorted odds and ends post-Christmas when we get to the juice section. My kids are fond of a Tropicana orange/mango juice mix thingie. But as I’m reaching for their favorite I stopped. Where did the Tropicana ...

On the eve of her 50th birthday, Mattel's world-famous doll, Barbie is scheduled for an extreme makeover. Several marketing mistakes,from inconsistent logos to an obsessive focus on secondary merchandise items have damaged the Barbie brand and stalled sales during the past decade. Enter new general ...