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		<title>Bad brands #2: Consulticom</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2009 13:02:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The essence of this vibrant and innovative brand* is captured with stark, slab-like lettering that reflects the stark, slab-like nature of the company and its clients. This is softened only slightly by a subtle and lazily applied drop shadow to make sure we&#8217;re covered if someone asks if it&#8217;s all about the people, isn&#8217;t it? A slightly putrid orange provides the <a href='http://www.alienbraincookies.com/created/bad-brands/bad-brands-2-consulticom/' class='excerpt-more'>[...]</a>]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.alienbraincookies.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/consulticom.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-293  alignnone" title="consulticom" src="http://www.alienbraincookies.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/consulticom.jpg" alt="ideas that think for themselves" width="326" height="155" /></a></p>
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<p>The essence of this vibrant and innovative brand* is captured with stark, slab-like lettering that reflects the stark, slab-like nature of the company and its clients. This is softened only slightly by a subtle and lazily applied drop shadow to make sure we&#8217;re covered if someone asks if it&#8217;s all about the people, isn&#8217;t it?</p>
<p>A slightly putrid orange provides the backdrop, showing the brand to be innovative and exciting but not too innovative and exciting for its mostly ancient, golfing target market. A new tagline, &#8220;ideas that think for themselves&#8221; is thought provoking as well as comforting and is reinforced by the ovoid canvas. This suggests a birthing process, the eggs of ideas and invoices that are incubated and hatched forth for a grateful clientelle.</p>
<p>Finally, a tick used in place of the dot of the &#8220;i&#8221; adds a jaunty aspect to the brand identity. This is in case we have to have meetings with people who like reports, or people who work in Marketing.</p>
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<p><em>* A silly idea I had some time ago for an AMR/Gartner-esque company identity. It seems that someone has been daft enough to use it for a </em><a href="http://www.yelloyello.com/places/consulticom-waddinxveen" target="_blank"><em>real company name</em></a><em>.  I&#8217;m sorry about that :]</em></p>
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