Category Archives: Brand
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May
May
“When you use Buycott to scan a product, it will look up the product, determine what brand it belongs to, and figure out what company owns that brand (and who owns that company, ad infinitum). It will then cross-check the product owners against the companies and brands included in the campaigns you’ve joined, in order to tell you if the scanned product conflicts with one of your campaign commitments.”
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Jul
Jul
Designers can look at 22 product materials–including silk, down, cotton, and polypropylene fabric–and find out their environmental impacts in four categories: waste, water use, energy, and chemistry.
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Oct
Oct
A Spider sewed at Night
Without a Light
Upon an Arc of White.
The UK chocolate manufacturer maintains it has used a particular shade of purple since WWI Cadbury denied right to trademark Dairy Milk purple Cadbury has lost a five-year court battle to register a distinctive shade of purple as a trademark for its chocolate bars. Lawyers for rival Nestlé managed to overturn a previous judgment that […]
The New Yorker breaks down the Sochi logo, noting the lack of any graphic image—a sharp departure from previous Olympics. Some see hidden meanings though. As one commenter noted: “When the logo was unveiled, the joke in Russia was that the blue font symbolizes pipes with natural gas – the main Russian export that basically […]
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Jan
Jan
