Pleasure and Pain

Improving the human experience one day at a time

Pleasure and Pain: photos by Whitney G. Hess

Entries Tagged as 'Branding'

Photo of the day: Time To Buy Cut-Rite

July 8th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Design, Marketing, Photography, Pleasure

I was baking at my parents’ apartment recently and pulled out their wax paper to line a cookie sheet. When I tore some off, I noticed a message pierced into the paper that read “TIME TO BUY CUT-RITE.” They use a different brand than I do so I had never seen this before. The paper [...]

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Photo of the day: Elevator in Use By Peabody Ducks

May 15th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Branding, Photography

Talk about being on brand. The Peabody Hotel never misses a beat when it comes to their world-renowned ducks. This is the sign they put in front of the center elevator just before the March of the Ducks. It’s so freakin’ cute and something you’d never see anywhere else that I just had to share. [...]

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A blogger’s worst nightmare

May 11th, 2009 · 6 Comments · Blogging, Branding, Pain

When you hit Save Draft and you get this message: WordPress Failure Notice: Your attempt to edit this post has failed. Please try again. Luckily for me, when I hit the Back button I discovered that WordPress had auto-saved the draft and none of my edits were lost. Still, perhaps they should consider using a [...]

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Twitter changes its email notifications

May 7th, 2009 · 15 Comments · Design, Twitter

By default, every time someone new follows you on Twitter, you get a notification via email (which you can turn off in the Settings, as I have). Yesterday I saw a bunch of people in my stream talking about a newly designed email notification so I decided to look into it. Here’s the old notification [...]

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Photo of the day: Tropicana grocery display

May 5th, 2009 · 4 Comments · Branding, Design, Photography

I don’t want to beat a dead horse here. We all know that Tropicana redesigned their cartons and there was a major backlash from consumers. In the end it was pulled from the shelves, but not before Matt Knell was able to snap this unbelievable pic: Matt showed me this photo on his iPhone recently [...]

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