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SUB SPECIE DESIGN
INQUIRY INTO
BRANDING, ETHICS
and
OBJECTIVITY
nottingham 2010
- 2016 revision -
WARNING:
DISTURBING IMAGES!
The real is experience,
and nothing but experience,
and experience consists of
“psychical matter of fact”.
A.E.Taylor, Elements of Metaphysics, 1903.
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SAID: LET THERE BE ALPHABET!
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short name.
long game.
source: chicagotribune.com
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the
(not so)
STRANGE
CASE of
Mr SMYTH
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O L Y M P I C S
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loveyou
pissoff
Alice and Bob are happily
engaged. They both work
at W. Businey Advertising
Agency, on their way up
to bright careers. She is a
Design college graduate,
working as a receptionist.
He is a business school
graduate, working as an
accountant.
Alejandro is W.Businey’s
son, a sexually liberated
poet and the agency’s
Chief Executive
Copywriter. He’s got a
crush on Bob but the
closest he can get to
him is being Alice’s best
friend.
W. Businey himself is
working on his agency’s
establishment in the business
world. His business-club pal J.
Goreboreson of Goreboreson
Industries is about to launch
new product X and has $
budget allocated on branding.
Businey wins the job by
offering to do it for 2$/3 - i.e.
considerably cheaper.
Alejandro overhears his
dad briefing Mr Smyth,
the agency’s Chief
Marketing Officer, on the
brand X job. Mr Smyth
is a Marketing expert,
working on becoming
Businey’s CEO against
all odds, and clueless
regarding Design process.
Alejandro talks to Mr
Smyth about Alice’s
design qualification. The
reception girl apparently
can offer more in the
brand X project than
smiling and answering the
phone, as she can actually
use a computer, too. And
she’s such a doll.
Alejandro then tells Alice
about the opportunity
to show off her skills
and talents to his dad,
which would lead to her
promotion to Art Director,
if she currently helped out
Mr Smyth with the design
of brand X.
5
6
Alice and Mr Smyth
meet up and ideas are
discussed. The computer is
loaded with stock graphics
that Alice uses to impress
Mr Smyth by. He’s got
no idea but still preaches
to her about staying on
message just to impose his
authority.
7
She fears that her show
is inadequate and her
chance might slip away,
but she is determined
and does everything in
her power to succeed. He
feels that women cannot
resist his tremendous
professional personality
and picks a random stock
graphic for his prize.
8
Alejandro and Bob console
each other, developing a
special relationship that
helps Bob regain self-
confidence and Alejandro
exercise his poetry. Alice
never gets promoted or
even acknowledged. She
splits up with Bob and
stays on with her job.
Brand X is presented
to Goreboreson, who
finds it entirely on
message and on budget.
Brand X is ready to go
into production and
consumption. Businey
humbly shares the credit
with his son.
Bob gets jealous about
the closeness of his
fiancé to a man of higher
authority. Alejandro
approaches him in a
friendly and supportive
manner that culminates
in the total devastation of
Bob’s already wounded
masculine pride.
Mr Smyth presents his
tremendous personality’s
prize design to his boss,
explaining to him with pie-
charts and other statistic
graphs how successful
it’s all going to be, how
soon and for how long.
Businey exercises some
authority of his own, too,
making a minor but vital
improvement to the design.
Alice decides that her
career would improve if
she were better qualified.
In parallel to her job,
she enrols at the local
Uni for a postgraduate
course in Branding, with
international students
Dumdum Li and Flynn
Kollosh for peers.
Professor E.Diott is their
tutor, an expert on the
subject, knowing everything
about brand identities and
creative processes leading
to successful brands. He
teaches with vigour and
emphasis on objectivity and
the scientific methods of
research, and he organises a
case study of brand X.
A local professional field
expert is invited for a
seminar. He talks about
the success of brand
X, its environmental
sustainability and social
responsibility attributes
planned by himself and his
colleagues, and especially
about his tremendous
contribution as a target
audience specialist.
The professor briefs his
class on the ingenious
study project of rebranding
brand X. The students are
to perform interviews,
focus groups and literature
reviews to produce a wide
range of designs from
which the most competent
will be presented for final
assessment.
Dumdum Li goes on to
interview the patron of
the brand. The picture
from this angle shows
the investment essence
and business capacity
attached to product X. For
Dumdum, brand X takes
on a corporate meaning
with functionality as the
basis.
Alice takes the literature
review path. She’s well aware
of the process and creative
background of X, so she
concentrates on the impact the
brand has on society as argued
by critics and the media. This
is a picture of protest against
brand X.
The three students prepare
their designs and meet up to
act as a focus group for each
other. Each has projected their
own ethno-cultural inhibitions
to the original design and
no-one sees any sense in the
others’ work. They manage to
help each other choose a final
piece on the basis of subjective
taste.
Flynn Kollosh gets to
interview the father of the
brand. This approach reveals
the market position of
product X and the vision that
dictates X’s Unique Selling
Proposition. Flynn perceives
brand X as an advocate of
cultural festivities.
5
6
7
8
Professor E. Diott takes the
students’ work to the board
for assessment. Having
a clear and objective
judgement on the aims
of the course of study
designed by himself, he is
satisfied with the relative
variations of the existing
design and unhappy with
Alice’s radical rethinking of
brand X.
He is reluctant to ‘fail’
Alice as failed students
reflect bad on the Uni’s
reputation. He gives
her a second chance to
present an objective and
professionally competent
design for brand X. Alice
feels patronised and
offended beyond despair.
To fight off the frustration,
Alice goes out for the
night. At the club, Alice’s
‘ex’ Bob is playing music
about how the world has
turned into gadgets doing
all the meaningful work
and humans taking drugs
to find new meaning in
their unemployed lives. She
meets with her best friend,
Alejandro, and they chat
about brand X.
Next morning, Alejandro is
found dead, his body given
in to extreme substance
abuse. His last poem
found unfinished next to
him was about the end
of consumerism in the
enslavement of the human
race to its own designs. No
one quite comprehends it
but, reading it, everyone
feels some remorse for the
man’s death.
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10
11
12
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<<
The sum total of events which are simultaneous with a selected
event exist, it is true, in relation to a particular inertial system,
but no longer independently of the choice of the inertial system.
The four dimensional continuum is now no longer resolvable
objectively into sections, all of which contain simultaneous
events; “now” loses for the spatially extended world its objective
meaning. It is because of this that space and time must be
regarded as a four-dimensional continuum that is objectively
unresolvable, if it is desired to express the purport of objective
relations without unnecessary conventional arbitrariness.
>>
Albert Einstein, Relativity (15th edition), 1952.
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About those things
that are objective,
only lies can be
communicated, for
their truth lies in the
subjective, psychical
experience and
satisfaction of each
and every individual
who interacts with
them physically.
About those things
that are subjective,
only truth can be
communicated, for
that truth lies in the
pragmatic, physical
reactions of the
audience affected by
the objective expression
of their psychical
conceptualisations.
Truth is a cultural inertial system, a statistical
mode of dominant brand myths that constitute
conceptualisations of a collective experience
towards which free-falling individuals and
smaller brands tend to gravitate.
The brand is a system of ethics and aesthetics.
The more massive a brand in terms of equity,
i.e. market share and popularity, the more
gravity its ethics and aesthetics institute upon
its surrounding culture.
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Welcome to Heaven.
my
B I G DA T A B L E S S Y O U .
POSTMODERNISM IS THAT
CULTURAL PHENOMENON OF
THE CONSUMERIST SOCIETY
WHERE THE ROCK-STAR SPITS
AT THE AUDIENCE IN THE FACE
AND THE AUDIENCE SCREAMS
FOR MORE.
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I met a traveller from an antique land,
Who said—“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. . . . Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed;
And on the pedestal, these words appear:
My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings;
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.
Percy B. Shelley: OZYMANDIAS; 1818
CIVILIZATIONCIVILIZATION GONE FORWARD.GONE FORWARD.
OBJECTIVITYOBJECTIVITY
PLAGIARISM.PLAGIARISM.

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Brand objectivity

  • 1. Nick Dachris SUB SPECIE DESIGN INQUIRY INTO BRANDING, ETHICS and OBJECTIVITY nottingham 2010 - 2016 revision -
  • 3. The real is experience, and nothing but experience, and experience consists of “psychical matter of fact”. A.E.Taylor, Elements of Metaphysics, 1903.
  • 16. SAID: LET THERE BE ALPHABET!
  • 23. short name. long game. source: chicagotribune.com
  • 48. O L Y M P I C S
  • 58. Alice and Bob are happily engaged. They both work at W. Businey Advertising Agency, on their way up to bright careers. She is a Design college graduate, working as a receptionist. He is a business school graduate, working as an accountant. Alejandro is W.Businey’s son, a sexually liberated poet and the agency’s Chief Executive Copywriter. He’s got a crush on Bob but the closest he can get to him is being Alice’s best friend. W. Businey himself is working on his agency’s establishment in the business world. His business-club pal J. Goreboreson of Goreboreson Industries is about to launch new product X and has $ budget allocated on branding. Businey wins the job by offering to do it for 2$/3 - i.e. considerably cheaper. Alejandro overhears his dad briefing Mr Smyth, the agency’s Chief Marketing Officer, on the brand X job. Mr Smyth is a Marketing expert, working on becoming Businey’s CEO against all odds, and clueless regarding Design process.
  • 59. Alejandro talks to Mr Smyth about Alice’s design qualification. The reception girl apparently can offer more in the brand X project than smiling and answering the phone, as she can actually use a computer, too. And she’s such a doll. Alejandro then tells Alice about the opportunity to show off her skills and talents to his dad, which would lead to her promotion to Art Director, if she currently helped out Mr Smyth with the design of brand X. 5 6 Alice and Mr Smyth meet up and ideas are discussed. The computer is loaded with stock graphics that Alice uses to impress Mr Smyth by. He’s got no idea but still preaches to her about staying on message just to impose his authority. 7 She fears that her show is inadequate and her chance might slip away, but she is determined and does everything in her power to succeed. He feels that women cannot resist his tremendous professional personality and picks a random stock graphic for his prize. 8
  • 60. Alejandro and Bob console each other, developing a special relationship that helps Bob regain self- confidence and Alejandro exercise his poetry. Alice never gets promoted or even acknowledged. She splits up with Bob and stays on with her job. Brand X is presented to Goreboreson, who finds it entirely on message and on budget. Brand X is ready to go into production and consumption. Businey humbly shares the credit with his son. Bob gets jealous about the closeness of his fiancé to a man of higher authority. Alejandro approaches him in a friendly and supportive manner that culminates in the total devastation of Bob’s already wounded masculine pride. Mr Smyth presents his tremendous personality’s prize design to his boss, explaining to him with pie- charts and other statistic graphs how successful it’s all going to be, how soon and for how long. Businey exercises some authority of his own, too, making a minor but vital improvement to the design.
  • 61. Alice decides that her career would improve if she were better qualified. In parallel to her job, she enrols at the local Uni for a postgraduate course in Branding, with international students Dumdum Li and Flynn Kollosh for peers. Professor E.Diott is their tutor, an expert on the subject, knowing everything about brand identities and creative processes leading to successful brands. He teaches with vigour and emphasis on objectivity and the scientific methods of research, and he organises a case study of brand X. A local professional field expert is invited for a seminar. He talks about the success of brand X, its environmental sustainability and social responsibility attributes planned by himself and his colleagues, and especially about his tremendous contribution as a target audience specialist. The professor briefs his class on the ingenious study project of rebranding brand X. The students are to perform interviews, focus groups and literature reviews to produce a wide range of designs from which the most competent will be presented for final assessment.
  • 62. Dumdum Li goes on to interview the patron of the brand. The picture from this angle shows the investment essence and business capacity attached to product X. For Dumdum, brand X takes on a corporate meaning with functionality as the basis. Alice takes the literature review path. She’s well aware of the process and creative background of X, so she concentrates on the impact the brand has on society as argued by critics and the media. This is a picture of protest against brand X. The three students prepare their designs and meet up to act as a focus group for each other. Each has projected their own ethno-cultural inhibitions to the original design and no-one sees any sense in the others’ work. They manage to help each other choose a final piece on the basis of subjective taste. Flynn Kollosh gets to interview the father of the brand. This approach reveals the market position of product X and the vision that dictates X’s Unique Selling Proposition. Flynn perceives brand X as an advocate of cultural festivities. 5 6 7 8
  • 63. Professor E. Diott takes the students’ work to the board for assessment. Having a clear and objective judgement on the aims of the course of study designed by himself, he is satisfied with the relative variations of the existing design and unhappy with Alice’s radical rethinking of brand X. He is reluctant to ‘fail’ Alice as failed students reflect bad on the Uni’s reputation. He gives her a second chance to present an objective and professionally competent design for brand X. Alice feels patronised and offended beyond despair. To fight off the frustration, Alice goes out for the night. At the club, Alice’s ‘ex’ Bob is playing music about how the world has turned into gadgets doing all the meaningful work and humans taking drugs to find new meaning in their unemployed lives. She meets with her best friend, Alejandro, and they chat about brand X. Next morning, Alejandro is found dead, his body given in to extreme substance abuse. His last poem found unfinished next to him was about the end of consumerism in the enslavement of the human race to its own designs. No one quite comprehends it but, reading it, everyone feels some remorse for the man’s death. 9 10 11 12
  • 70. << The sum total of events which are simultaneous with a selected event exist, it is true, in relation to a particular inertial system, but no longer independently of the choice of the inertial system. The four dimensional continuum is now no longer resolvable objectively into sections, all of which contain simultaneous events; “now” loses for the spatially extended world its objective meaning. It is because of this that space and time must be regarded as a four-dimensional continuum that is objectively unresolvable, if it is desired to express the purport of objective relations without unnecessary conventional arbitrariness. >> Albert Einstein, Relativity (15th edition), 1952.
  • 77. About those things that are objective, only lies can be communicated, for their truth lies in the subjective, psychical experience and satisfaction of each and every individual who interacts with them physically. About those things that are subjective, only truth can be communicated, for that truth lies in the pragmatic, physical reactions of the audience affected by the objective expression of their psychical conceptualisations.
  • 78. Truth is a cultural inertial system, a statistical mode of dominant brand myths that constitute conceptualisations of a collective experience towards which free-falling individuals and smaller brands tend to gravitate. The brand is a system of ethics and aesthetics. The more massive a brand in terms of equity, i.e. market share and popularity, the more gravity its ethics and aesthetics institute upon its surrounding culture.
  • 80. Welcome to Heaven. my B I G DA T A B L E S S Y O U .
  • 81. POSTMODERNISM IS THAT CULTURAL PHENOMENON OF THE CONSUMERIST SOCIETY WHERE THE ROCK-STAR SPITS AT THE AUDIENCE IN THE FACE AND THE AUDIENCE SCREAMS FOR MORE.
  • 91. I met a traveller from an antique land, Who said—“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. . . . Near them, on the sand, Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed; And on the pedestal, these words appear: My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings; Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair! Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare The lone and level sands stretch far away. Percy B. Shelley: OZYMANDIAS; 1818 CIVILIZATIONCIVILIZATION GONE FORWARD.GONE FORWARD.