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Ever since I was a child, I’ve dragged home stuff that nobody wanted. When I was 12, I sent my genteel and dignified grandmother off in her Dodge Dart with a crowbar to pry a rusting Coca-Cola sign from an abandoned storefront (she knew the owner and got his okay first). As I grew older, my collection shifted to mid-century furniture, telephones, and a bewildering array of department store ephemera: bags, boxes, directories, and dozens of Christmas catalogues.
I can’t explain my fascination with old stuff, because I consider myself a forward-thinking, strategic kind of guy. In my day job as a B-to-B marketer, I continually challenge the status quo and try to help the company I work for find new pathways to success. It’s a contradiction.
George Santayana was a philosopher and essayist who’s remembered today mainly for this quote: “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” Maybe that’s what’s going on with me. Maybe collecting has helped me remember the past so I can anticipate the future with better clarity. Maybe collecting has made me a better strategist and marketer.
Or maybe I just like old stuff.
What color are you today?
Researchers at the University of British Columbia released a study showing that colors may have an impact on how we perform certain functions. For example, blue tends to inspire creativity and imagination, while red boosts recall and attention to detail. Read more in this New York Times story.
Healing and Twittering
Large consumer brands aren’t the only ones Twittering these days. Here’s a story about how hospitals are using the microblogging app to send health tips, link to news articles and boast about accomplishments.
How much is $787 billion, anyway?
Having a hard time wrapping your mind around the stimulus package numbers? Here’s some perspective from the New Yorker:
“Try the following thought experiment…Without doing the calculation, guess how long a million seconds is. Now try to guess the same for a billion seconds. Ready? A million seconds is less than twelve days; a billion is almost thirty-two years.”
Read the whole piece, about the history of currencies and central bankers, here.
Rethinking an icon
Redesigning an iconic logo like Pepsi’s is a big deal, but this document, full of geometric theory and mind-bending philosophy behind the brand redesign, has raised a few eyebrows in the ad industry for its excessiveness. Read Ad Age’s take here.
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