BrandBox

Episode 27 - Repairing For The Future

Show Notes

It’s “infrastructure week” here on BrandBox!

• American Jobs Plan
• 1975 Icelandic Women's Day Off
• Balloon Frame Construction
• Belt and Road Initiative
• BrandBox Episode: Voting for Voting
• Villa Savoye
• Jane Jacobs
• BrandBox Live Show Note Discussions on Clubhouse
• Send your ideas to [email protected]
• Apply to SVA Masters in Branding Program

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Episode 26 - Voting For Voting

Show Notes

Should brands stand for democracy?

• New York Times Ad Signed By Corporate Executives and Notable Individuals
• Anglo-Saxon Wikipedia article
• Two-thirds of Republicans say 2020 election was invalid
• Golden Globe Awards
• Walter Benjamin - "The Work of Art in the Age of Technological Reproduction"
• "America First Caucus" statements
• Corporate donations to Congress Members who rejected 2020 election results
• Ego syntonic and dystonic
• Blackrock's ESG statements
• Fear of "replacement"
• Republican Party 2020 election "autopsy"
• George W. Bush and Liz Cheney reject America First Caucus ideas
• BrandBox Live Show Note Discussions on Clubhouse
• Send your ideas to [email protected]
• Apply to SVA Masters in Branding Program

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Episode 25 - Everyone Gets An Award

Show Notes

Why do we need awards?

• Grammy Awards
• Oscar Awards
• Cannes Lion Awards
• Golden Globe Awards
• Food Network Tournament of Champions
• Foucault on Normalization
• Mashable on Film Color Palettes
• Roman Krznaric - Empathy Museum
• Nomadland on Hulu
• BrandBox Live Show Note Discussions on Clubhouse
• Send your ideas to [email protected]
• Apply to SVA Masters in Branding Program

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Episode 24 - A Firm Goodbye

Show Notes

Melinda Welch joins for reactions to the royal exit interview.

• Oprah Interviews Meghan Markle and Prince Harry
• Habermas and the "public sphere"
• "The bends"
• Sianne Ngai - "Our Aesthetic Categories"
• BrandBox Live Show Note Discussions on Clubhouse
• Send your ideas to [email protected]
• Apply to SVA Masters in Branding Program

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Episode 23 - NFTs? WTF? LOL!

Show Notes

How real are my sneakers?

• Non Fungible Token or NFT
• Christie's Beeple Auction
• Beeple's 2020 NFTs
• Grimes NFT
• Kings of Leon NFT release
• NBA NFTs
• Nike Cryptokicks
• Lawrence Weiner 1968
• Verification on Blockchains
• Bitcoins
• The Silk Road
• Fiat currency
• Chinese Cryptocurrency
• Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney
• Digital footwear for avatars
• Hearthstone Hong Kong Controversy
• Daryl Morey Hong Kong Tweet Controversy
• Cryptokitties
• Jerry Seinfeld - Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee
• BrandBox Live Show Note Discussions on Clubhouse
• Send your ideas to [email protected]
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Episode 22 - Jump Cuts

Show Notes

What the impeachment videos teach us about brands.

• Second Trump Impeachment Prosecution Video
• Second Trump Impeachment Defense Video
• "Continuity editing"
• Montage examples: "The Thomas Crown Affair"
• "Grand Prix"
• Jean-Luc Goddard, "King Lear"
• Walter Benjamin: "The Work of Art In The Age of Mechanical Reproduction"
• Eugène Atget photographs
• LIFE Magazine
• LIFE Magazine, "Drama of Life Before Birth" 1965
• What do these videos have to do with branding?
• George Stevens films: "A Place In The Sun" and Auschwitz documentation
• Alfred Hitchcock's directorial approach
• Terrence Malick's directorial approach
• Ada Louise Huxtable on real/real, real/fake, fake/real, fake/fake
• BrandBox Live Show Note Discussions on Clubhouse
• Send your ideas to [email protected]
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Episode 21 - Fit For Use

Show Notes

If people can fit in, can they also fit out?

• Wikipedia entry, “survival of the fittest”
• William H. Whyte, “The Organization Man”
• IBM Culture
• Houston pathologist/knife maker
• Bernie Sanders mittens, Vermont Teddy Bear Company
• Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" Bad Faith
• BrandBox Live Show Note Discussions on Clubhouse
• Send your ideas to [email protected]
• Apply to SVA Masters in Branding Program

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Episode 20 - Away

Show Notes

Cartesian geometry and modern thinking.

• WSJ Article: Maersk Ship Loses 750 Shipping Containers Overboard in Pacific
• Ocean Network Express loses nearly 2000 boxes at sea
• Intermodal transport system
• Descartes creates co-ordinate system
• Calculus
• Steven Holl Architects
• Rectangular Surveying System
• Manhattan grid plan
• Evolution of building construction
• Augustine Taylor and balloon framing construction
• Bricklayer robots
• 3D Printed structures
• William McDonough - "Cradle To Cradle" design and the fiction of "throwing things away"
• Fully loading disposal AND production costs.
• GameStop affair revealing faultlines
• BrandBox Live Show Note Discussions on Clubhouse
• Send your ideas to [email protected]
• Apply to SVA Masters in Branding Program
• Michael Rouse "Failing Kansas" video

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Episode 19 - Promises, Promises

Show Notes

It’s judgment time for the political and brand promises of the last several years.

• January 6, 2021 Capitol Insurrection
• "Phase change"
• Sturgeon's Law
• Jamie Dimond: Time for corporations to end all political contributions
• McKinsey: Rethinking the future of American capitalism
• Amanda Gorman - "The Hill We Climb"
• Send your ideas to [email protected]

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Episode 19 - Promises, Promises

Show Notes

It’s judgment time for the political and brand promises of the last several years.

• January 6, 2021 Capitol Insurrection
• "Phase change"
• Sturgeon's Law
• Jamie Dimond: Time for corporations to end all political contributions
• McKinsey: Rethinking the future of American capitalism
• Amanda Gorman - "The Hill We Climb"
• Send your ideas to [email protected]

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