As millions of people are playing with AI-powered image-generation tools like DALL-E and Midjourney, new works of art are generated by the billions. Many of them are curiosities, some of them are legitimately incredible works of art that I wouldn’t hesitate to stick on my wall. read more…
Tom Wright, whose wide career embraced photography of many rock greats and time spent as a tour manager for The Who and other major acts, has died. He was 78 and details on where and the cause were not immediately available…
Until quite late in the process of crafting “The Last Movie Stars” — a six-hour deep dive into the on- and off-screen lives of Hollywood golden couple Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward, now streaming on HBO Max — director Ethan Hawke resisted the notion that he was making a TV series.
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One of the innovators of using “Figure Ground Reversal” design in branding and advertising worth mentioning is Walter Joseph Landor (1913 – 1995), who founded San Francisco-based Landor Associates in 1941.
Walter Landor is considered to be the “inventor” of modern branding strategy, and designed hundreds of famous logos. Some logos created by his firm used Figure Ground Reversal-inspired techniques including FEDEX, Apple and Bank of America. It was one of Walter Landor’s employees, Lindon Leader who created the legendary FedEx logo in 1994 while working as Landor Associates’ senior design director.
Walter Landor himself redesigned the then fifty-year old and very stale Bank of America branding and logo in 1969. The bank’s new logo icon introduced in 1969, the “BA” initials used Figure Ground Reversal, which upon closer examination, reveals a hidden seagull.
Bank of America’s “Seagull” logo as seen in the movie, Back to the Future.
I worked part-time in the marketing department at Bank of America in the late 1970s while a student at the University of Southern California’s School of Business, and was very involved and learned many lessons while helping create many advertising and promotional campaigns using the logo and branding strategies created by Landor.
Bank of America’s seagull logo, as insiders called it, lasted thirty years until 1998, when Bank of America was purchased by Charlotte-based NationsBank, which adopted the Bank of America name with a new branding and logo for its network of NationsBank branches.
Apple Music has revealed its top tracks and trends of the year so far with their mid-year report highlighting powerful and outlasting music trends and songs. Those with top songs include Future, Harry Styles, Jack Harlow, Glass Animals, Bad Bunny and Gayle…
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