Tag Archives: branding

Meta-rebranding: The Dharma Initiative rebrands.

Today is in fact ‘drag up old topics day’. With Lost hitting the airwaves in February, the grandaddy of TV show …virality… struck again this past summer with a Comicon-based Dharma Initiative recruitment drive. Please note that it’s Dharma, not DHARMA, now. This is not your daddy’s DHARMA Iniatitive. By the way, condolances in case [...]

Painful branding excercises: Siemen’s Zyklon line.

an oldy but goody (or horrible-y) from 2002:
The German conglomerate Siemens has issued an apology and dropped plans to brand a range of gas cookers and other home products “Zyklon” – the same name as the Zyklon B gas used to murder millions of people in Nazi Germany’s concentration camps.
The recipe for branding always involves [...]