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Chinese Anti-Branding Efforts

The Wall Street Journal reports on attempts by the Olympics organizers in China to strictly enforce sponsorship rules:

"To ensure that only the companies that pay millions of dollars to be official Olympic sponsors enjoy the benefits of exposure in Olympic venues, organizers have covered the trademarks of nonsponsors with thousands of little swatches of tape.

In media centers, dormitories and arena bathrooms, pieces of tape cover logos of fire extinguishers, light switches, thermostats, bedroom night tables, soap dispensers and urinals. The Taiden Industrial translation headsets in a large conference room have had their logos covered, as have the American Standard faucets in the bathrooms nearby, and the ThyssenKrupp escalators down the hall."

Read the entire article HERE.

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ALR in Dynamic Graphics

Logos my company designed for The Green Glass Co. and Richmond Peace Education Center (as well as a few select words from me) appear in the current (June/July) issue of Dynamic Graphics magazine article "Death of A Logo", describing the process of logo redesign. It's on stands now.

UPDATE: You can now read the article online here.