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Tomato Burger
Jun 18, 2007
The secret is granola.
In an effort to stay hip and relevant, corporations love to jump on the bandwagon of a popular idea and run it into the ground. For example:

Three. Word. Sentences.


Dropping a lettr


______ly


Renaming 100 year old companies for no reason

(Formerly Kraft Foods)


(Formerly Philip Morris)


What other corporate trends will seem passé sooner rather than later?

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Admiral Bosch
Apr 19, 2007
Who is Admiral Aken Bosch, and what is that old scoundrel up to?
appealing to neoliberal social attitudes

SIDS Vicious
Jan 1, 1970


That first thing is actually three separate sentences all containing a single word, so it could be better described as "Three. Sentence. Fragments." You're. Very. Welcome.

guns for tits
Dec 25, 2014


Labeling things as "organic" will be considered as rather quaint and antiquated when our planet becomes a barren husk.

Detective No. 27
Jun 7, 2006

"small batch."

AAB
Nov 5, 2010

suicide safety nets

ClamdestineBoyster
Aug 15, 2015
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I hope they stop putting a period after every word. P. loving. Stupid. :jerkbag:

numberoneposter
Feb 19, 2014

How much do I cum? The answer might surprise you!

ClamdestineBoyster posted:

I hope they stop putting a period after every word. P. loving. Stupid. :jerkbag:
less punctuation more smilies :hellyeah:

ClamdestineBoyster
Aug 15, 2015
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numberoneposter posted:

less punctuation more smilies :hellyeah:

Get. Two. Dogs. :staredog: :staredog:

dookifex_maximus
Aug 10, 2016

by zen death robot
employing humans

numberoneposter
Feb 19, 2014

How much do I cum? The answer might surprise you!

dggrly. :dogbutton:

SIDS Vicious
Jan 1, 1970


dusters are gonna make a comeback

Fojar38
Sep 2, 2011


Sorry I meant to say I hope that the police use maximum force and kill or maim a bunch of innocent people, thus paving a way for a proletarian uprising and socialist utopia


also here's a stupid take
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pandering to brics markets

dookifex_maximus
Aug 10, 2016

by zen death robot
restraint

Prettz
Sep 3, 2002

Use of the word "gluten". By 2020 you will never see the word gluten anywhere again.

SIDS Vicious
Jan 1, 1970


Prettz posted:

Use of the word "gluten". By 2020 you will never see the word gluten anywhere again.

thank god

Nerses IV
May 4, 2007

by FactsAreUseless
Human employees

dookifex_maximus
Aug 10, 2016

by zen death robot
caveat emptor is going to replace customer service

Phlairdon
Apr 15, 2003

If you can't stand up you can't do war!
Lately every street/subway ad by some tech startup is done in some atrocious, simple graphic style. They all look the same and it always looks like who ever was in charge couldn't be bothered to hire a designer to do it, rather they have their programmer poo poo it out on their off day. Lyft is the latest culprit guilty of this and I can't wait for this trend to die in a fire.


BeefThief
Aug 8, 2007

having the trappings of a conscious

Justin Tyme
Feb 22, 2011


You forgot Google's non-computer poo poo being renamed to Alphabet

Iron Prince
Aug 28, 2005
Buglord

The Muppets On PCP
Nov 13, 2016

by Fluffdaddy

Tomato Burger posted:


(Formerly Philip Morris)

philip morris was renamed altria because of all the tobacco lawsuits

OXBALLS DOT COM
Sep 11, 2005

by FactsAreUseless
Young Orc

Sid Vicious posted:

dusters are gonna make a comeback



Dgsw is coming back??

ClamdestineBoyster
Aug 15, 2015
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Phlairdon posted:

Lately every street/subway ad by some tech startup is done in some atrocious, simple graphic style. They all look the same and it always looks like who ever was in charge couldn't be bothered to hire a designer to do it, rather they have their programmer poo poo it out on their off day. Lyft is the latest culprit guilty of this and I can't wait for this trend to die in a fire.




That's a p cool ad though. Considering your eyes might give it 2 seconds of time your brain can process the images/symbols and words like pedestrian signs, but then it breaks the hypnosis of all the city signs and makes you think. Wait, a car that's a roller skate? A rabbit? Your wheels in your brain start turning and now it's in your memory.

Xaris
Jul 25, 2006

Lucky there's a family guy
Lucky there's a man who positively can do
All the things that make us
Laugh and cry

Phlairdon posted:

Lately every street/subway ad by some tech startup is done in some atrocious, simple graphic style. They all look the same and it always looks like who ever was in charge couldn't be bothered to hire a designer to do it, rather they have their programmer poo poo it out on their off day. Lyft is the latest culprit guilty of this and I can't wait for this trend to die in a fire.




A station entrance for the Bart train in SF is decorated floor to ceiling with garbage facrbook icons all over and it's hideous

ziasquinn
Jan 1, 2006

Fallen Rib
Wtf KRAFT

GolfHole
Feb 26, 2004

@ and # will go away i hope

ClamdestineBoyster
Aug 15, 2015
Probation
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Xaris posted:

A station entrance for the Bart train in SF is decorated floor to ceiling with garbage facrbook icons all over and it's hideous



Blech what are they advertising a vomitorium? :barf:

gary oldmans diary
Sep 26, 2005

Phlairdon
Apr 15, 2003

If you can't stand up you can't do war!

ClamdestineBoyster posted:

That's a p cool ad though. Considering your eyes might give it 2 seconds of time your brain can process the images/symbols and words like pedestrian signs, but then it breaks the hypnosis of all the city signs and makes you think. Wait, a car that's a roller skate? A rabbit? Your wheels in your brain start turning and now it's in your memory.

It looks like a gaudy, hot mess and the first lazy idea that someone came up without the effort of refining it. And unfortunately your not glancing at it for 2 seconds, your looking at it on the train for a half hour when there's nothing else to look at. And the thing is, I've seen about ten dozen ads that look exactly like this and I can't remember the name of a single one of them because they all scream boring and uninspiring. The only reason I remember Lyft is because I remembered their previous ad campaign after seeing this and it was far more interesting to look at.

Blue Train
Jun 17, 2012

Phlairdon posted:

It looks like a gaudy, hot mess and the first lazy idea that someone came up without the effort of refining it. And unfortunately your not glancing at it for 2 seconds, your looking at it on the train for a half hour when there's nothing else to look at. And the thing is, I've seen about ten dozen ads that look exactly like this and I can't remember the name of a single one of them because they all scream boring and uninspiring. The only reason I remember Lyft is because I remembered their previous ad campaign after seeing this and it was far more interesting to look at.

You are supposed to look at the nuts of the guy across from you

ClamdestineBoyster
Aug 15, 2015
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Phlairdon posted:

It looks like a gaudy, hot mess and the first lazy idea that someone came up without the effort of refining it. And unfortunately your not glancing at it for 2 seconds, your looking at it on the train for a half hour when there's nothing else to look at. And the thing is, I've seen about ten dozen ads that look exactly like this and I can't remember the name of a single one of them because they all scream boring and uninspiring. The only reason I remember Lyft is because I remembered their previous ad campaign after seeing this and it was far more interesting to look at.

What about an ad that almost seamlessly blends in with its environment with a subtly contrasted brand in the corner or somewhere aesthetically pleasing? Like you don't see it really. it's just a little off from what's there, bricks, concrete, flora, sky, water, but you gotta focus in on it if you wanna see it.

nigga crab pollock
Mar 26, 2010

by Lowtax
if there's one thing i've learned from briefly being a media major it's that the venn diagram of 'talented artists' and 'people qualified enough to get hired by corporate america' is a very, very tiny overlap

PyPy
Sep 13, 2004

by vyelkin
The facade of "work health fair screenings" will be lifted to reveal a massive blood database for genetic screening for our corporate overlords led by peter thiel

nigga crab pollock
Mar 26, 2010

by Lowtax
we need you to be able to make exactly what we want you to make without any concessions to the original concept or what we expect out of the execution as well as bonus points if you hit these whole bunch of other criteria that will adversely affect the execution of said concept

got any sevens
Feb 9, 2013

by Cyrano4747

Xaris posted:

A station entrance for the Bart train in SF is decorated floor to ceiling with garbage facrbook icons all over and it's hideous



Techbros with no taste taking over the gay town is hilarious.

naem
May 29, 2011

Xaris posted:

A station entrance for the Bart train in SF is decorated floor to ceiling with garbage facrbook icons all over and it's hideous



Hobos poop so much the escalators breAk

Dinosaurmageddon
Jul 7, 2007

by zen death robot
Hell Gem

Kraft is Gerber is Purina is Perrier is all Nestle.

Rebranding Kraft foods as "Mondelez International" in this case is a quality smokescreen and is likely to INCREASE in the near future for all the major corporations that have been undergoing major mergers.

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Drink-Mix Man
Mar 4, 2003

You are an odd fellow, but I must say... you throw a swell shindig.

"Download our app and skip the lines at [fast food or equally stupid place]"

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