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08
Apr

Engadget.com vs. Telekom: What’s in it for us?

Endgadget.com vs. Telekom: What’s in it for us?

An interesting battle is going on between a popular technology blog and a major telecommunications company as I am writing this post. In the spotlight: a questionable letter, a vast outcry in the blogosphere and the overall question if a company has the right to protect a color. This color: Magenta

Before we take a look at the relevance of these happenings for us designers, let me sum up the events so far.

Round I

Engadget.com vs. Telekom: What’s in it for us?Deutsche Telekom AG (with the subsidiaries T-Mobile and T-Online, among others) asks Weblogs, Inc. (an AOL Time Warner company, runs around 90 blogs, including engadget.com and engadgetmobile.com) to kindly

…replace the color magenta in the Engadget Mobile logo and discontinue using the color in a trademark-specific way…

That was earlier last week.

Round II

Engadget’s reaction to the letter is to publish it in its beautiful completeness on their blog. Here it is: Read on…

17
Mar

Welcome Designers who Blog readers!

Designers who blog features Nubloo.com

Designers who Blog readers, welcome to Nubloo!

On Friday, Nubloo got featured on the Designers who Blog website. To all who just clicked on to us, I’m very happy to say:

Hi, come on in and take a look!

We’re a blog by designers, for designers and people in the creative business. Here, you will find a variety of posts about the things we like: design and creativity. We’re creatives ourselves, and this blog is our forum for expressing the things we love to do.

So who are we?

Nubloo is mainly run by yours truly, a creative person in the design business. My name is Robert Augustin and I started sketching, drawing and doodling back in school, somewhere around the 6th grade, mostly to the nuisance of my dear teachers. That quickly became my passion and today, 17 years later, it is what I do for a living.

When I say we, I mean our small team of upcoming creatives. Our command center is Effex Medien, a young and innovative design studio located in South Germany. While I’m traveling throughout the world, mainly between the premises of our venture and the U.S. East Coast, where I am with my wonderful fiancée, I come across many inspiring styles, people and insights, which I like to share with the readers of this blog.

As for you, our new readers,

just take a look around and see if you can find something you like. For instance, you could start with our 5×5 Secret Rules in Design and Advertising series. Or, if you feel lucky, you can also just use our tag cloud to the upper right and take a pop at the category you crave most.

I hope you like what you find here. Because if you do, you can then leave a comment on our site - we appreciate your feedback very much!

For our readers who know us already, I highly recommend taking a look at our new friends at designers-who-blog.com. The site is run by Cat, an expert in the design business and a very talented writer. Her blog features designers from all over the world (now us, too!) and is really worth a look.

Thanks for poppin’ in and enjoy your stroll at Nubloo.com!

25
Oct

It’s not a Brand. It’s History!

Arsenal Underground Station (London, UK)Do you use public transportation? Ever took the bus, the train, or the subway? (As we’re international: think of the Underground, the Tube, the Metro, the U-Bahn…) If you did, you might have experienced this already: a stop or station named after a commercial company.

 

Almost everywhere, mass transportation carriers are selling the names of their subway stations away for branding to corporations, even their most frequented and often historic ones. The brand isn’t placed above the line… Read on…

11
Aug

Slap them, because nobody cares: Multi-Billion Pharmaceutical Company sues Humanitarian Movement

On Wednesday, pharmaceutical giant Johnson & Johnson filed a lawsuit against the American Red Cross over the use of their trademark, the red cross symbol.

The hot potato

While the Red Cross uses the well-known badge for all of their activities, Johnson & Johnson doesn’t seem to like the fact Read on…





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