300% Cotton: More T-Shirt Graphics

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        300% Cotton: More T-Shirt GraphicsMore than a cheap article of clothing, the T-shirt is a portable personal ad, its wearing declaring their political/musical/social affiliations for all the world to see. Since the 1960s the T-shirt has provided a forum for expression, where anti-war slogans mixed with early counter-culture classics such as “Keep on Truckin’,” and tie-dye mingled with the debut of that hardy perennial, the tour T-shirt: album cover graphic on the front, venue details listed on the back. This book reflects the diverse and rich graphic culture that has arisen from the medium, considering its use in areas such as music, politics and fashion. Featuring photographs of T-shirts worn on the street, specially commissioned T-shirt graphics, T-shirt collections, and the best and coolest graphics from around the world, 300% Cotton will appeal to designers, illustrators and art directors, as well as a general market of T-shirt enthusiasts and collectors.

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outstanding book on contemporary t-shirt design by Daniel L. Rollman
As a big t-shirt lover, I picked up this book a couple weeks ago. The content features an impressive range of international shirt design and shirt designers. Nice mix of high-end graphic work, conceptual/arty stuff, etc.

Book is very well designed, also. I’d recommend it to anyone who loves t-shirts or just contemporary design in general. (The first two in this series, 100% Cotton and 200% Cotton, are worthy pick-ups, also.)


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        Turn Eye Appeal into Buy AppealTurn Eye Appeal into Buy Appeal: How to easily transform your marketing pieces into dazzling, persuasive sales tools! is an award winning ebook by Karen Saunders. It provides easy-to-read instructions that will help anyone design eye-catching informational/marketing pieces with great graphics and compelling content.You want your marketing pieces to have just the right mix of “eye appeal” and “buy appeal” to make your sales soar. But how can you increase the “buy appeal” without having to hire a designer? Turn Eye Appeal into Buy Appeal gives you a design consultant on your desktop . . . without paying design fees. Specifically, it provides:* 128 pages of easy-to-read instructions that help you produce logos, brochures, flyers, presentations, and book covers that inspire people to buy!

* Nearly 200 full-color illustrations

* Nearly 200 hyperlinks that help you find subjects fast

* Details appreciated by people with tight deadlines

* Hundreds of techniques to reinforce your strategies

* Tips for writing persuasive copy that “hooks” customers

* An easy-to-use resource you can refer to again and again

Grab a lot of wisdom from a design pro 24/7 and reduce your production time by 50%. Make Turn Eye Appeal into Buy Appeal your own and get the great results you want.

Written and illustrated by Karen Saunders

Karen Saunders founded MacGraphics Services in 1990 to help business owners present themselves and their services professionally through well-branded graphics. She designs ads, logos, one-sheets, book covers and interiors, corporate identity pieces, audio and video packaging, and much more. Karen has designed the covers of 21 books that have become best-sellers or won awards, including the 2005 Writer’s Digest “Grand Prize” winner for the best self-published book in America.

Turn Eye Appeal into Buy Appeal is a book so useful that anyone who creates informational materials will find it invaluable:

* Small Businesses;

* Entrepreneurs;

* Schools;

* Libraries;

* Cities/Counties;

* Social Service Agencies;

* Non-profits;

* Virtual Assistants;

* Students; and

* Anyone who wants to make their informational, educational, or sales material graphically compelling!

Sample topics covered in the ebook . . .

* 10 Questions to Answer Before Designing Your Next Project

* Branding: An Umbrella Concept You Can’t Ignore

* What Makes a Good Logo Design?

* Building a Better Business Card

* Think in the Prospect’s Perspective

* Capturing Customers with Persuasive Words

* Marketing Writing That Gets Read

* Choosing Fonts

* 9 Typesetting Tricks That Design Pros Use

* 6 Elements that Make Your Design Effective

* Working with Images to Enhance Your Layout

* Jazz Up Your Layouts with Pull Quotes

* Tips for Designing Book Covers and Inside Pages

* How to Scan Photos at the Correct Resolution

* How Color Can Add “Zing” to Your Design

* Easy Ways to Select Harmonious Colors

* Unlocking the Symbolic Meaning of Color

* RGB and CMYK — Colorful but Different

* Proper File Formats for Internet and Print

* Checklist for Making Your Files Print-Ready

* What Paper Works Best?

* What are Your Options for Binding?

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First Impressions Count by Barbara J. Butler
Karen’s years of experience is brilliantly conveyed in her book “Turn Eye Appeal into Buy Appeal.” Saunders, the designer of many award winning books, gives credibility to the easy to read and implement information. It’s a great resource book for anyone wishing to create any type of written material - whatever form it may take.

Barbara J. Butler - Aurora, CO
Destination Wedding Minister - Author - Speaker

A Must-have for Small Business Owners by Goldbugs
As partners of clients who help make their businesses more successful, virtual assistants often have to oversee the creation of marketing material. While one option is to hire a graphics firm to do it all while the business owner remains hands-off, most small business owners can’t afford this luxury.

Enter Turn Eye Appeal into Buy Appeal: How to easily transform your marketing pieces into dazzling, persuasive sales tools! by Karen Saunders. Filled with beautiful images, information-packed articles, and helpful tools, Turn Eye Appeal Into Buy Appeal is a must-have for any business owner who even thinks of creating (or getting someone else to create for her) logos, business cards, newsletters, brochures, and websites.

Turn Eye Appeal Into Buy Appeal overcomes all manner of design and print roadblocks with answers to such questions as

“What colors should I use to add ‘zing’ to my design?”
“Where should I start in designing my logo?”
“What will make people read my marketing piece?”
“What paper should I use for my printed marketing piece?”
“What should I say about my company?”

One of a business owner’s goals is to increase his revenue. One of the best ways to increase revenue is to attract consumers through powerful flyers, business cards, brochures, and logos. Turn Eye Appeal Into Buy Appeal will help business owners be able to produce appealing marketing material that really sells.

Dawn Goldberg, CMVA, COO of AssistU. Since 1997, AssistU has been training, certifying, and referring the best virtual assistants in the world.

This book showed me how to do my own marketing graphics! by Thomas A. McEwen
I purchased Turn Eye Appeal into Buy Appeal by Karen Saunders last year and have found it to be an invaluable resource for designing marketing materials including counter displays, book description sheets, our own website, etc. My book is now our distributors best selling book on recreational boating, and I believe the marketing materials derived from Karen’s book contributed significantly to this success.

My copy has all kinds of Post-It notes marking pages of particular interest, and lots of Hi-Liter marks, so you can tell I use it a lot. It’s not just about graphics-it covers such things as writing good marketing copy, typography, digital imagery, and printing, and that’s not all. Even if you hire out your graphics and marketing materials work, this will help you understand and evaluate the contractor’s work. I can absolutely recommend this book to anyone who needs to develop marketing programs and materials.

Tom McEwen, author of Boater’s Pocket Reference

The Real Deal by Walter Taylor, Jr.
I wished I had purchased this book before publishing my first book, but there will definitely be a revision after reviewing this material.

Being exposed to many business people, authors and graphic designers over the last year, I find that Karen Saunders is the “real deal” when it comes to giving relevant information that you can use.

Turn Eye Appeal into Buy Appeal has helped and is helping me to develop my brand. Let us face it-everyone desires to turn his or her product into a sale at every glance.

Everyone wants their idea or product to speak without speaking and that is precisely what you will get when you put the principles of this book to work.

There are many out there promising to help you when it comes to developing a plan and putting it to action, but Karen Saunders delivers in Turning Eye Appeal into Buy Appeal.

My name is Walter Taylor, Jr., Minister and Author of Touchdown Love and I approve this review.

Great information from a true professional by B. Munson
In my business as a book editor and consultant, I am always looking for good resources for clients. I have been able to find some good books on book marketing–and others on writing a good sales letter or press release. But until I read Karen’s Turn Eye Appeal into Buy Appeal, I knew of no book that gave in-depth help on design and writing. I am very impressed with the quantity and quality of Karen’s information. I especially like the easy to use format. Her book is a great example of the quality of work Karen produces in her business as a graphics professional.

Barbara Munson
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Marketing Basics for Designers: A Sourcebook of Strategies and Ideas

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        Marketing Basics for Designers: A Sourcebook of Strategies and IdeasBusiness essentials and marketing strategies to help your firm survive and thrive . . .

As a design professional running your own small firm, you expect to wear many hats–designer, office manager, project manager–all in a day’s work. But strategic marketer? No one prepared you for that! Marketing Basics for Designers is a long overdue resource for designers who need to become expert marketers fast. It provides solid practical advice on how to market your services, build your client base, and keep your customers coming back for more.

You’ll learn how to establish your design niche and develop your own marketing plan to reach potential clients. You’ll find techniques for networking and using your contacts with other professionals. And you’ll find inside tips from 30 leading designers who have had to develop their own marketing methods to survive. Positively packed with all the details you need, Marketing Basics for Designers helps you ensure your firm’s future success and shows you how to:
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If you are recently out on your own, planning to start your own practice, or already managing your own small firm, this is one of the most important books you will ever add to your professional library.

Marketing Basics for Designers

What makes running a small design practice so much more challenging than working for one of the big firms? You have to attract your own clients and keep them, you’re working with limited resources and personnel, and once you finally pull yourself away from your drawing board to concentrate on marketing your services, where do you begin? You can’t just sit there wondering why you didn’t learn more about marketing in design school.

Here’s a book to help you out. With a clear, no-nonsense approach, Jane D. Martin and Nancy Knoohuizen address the full range of marketing problems and solutions from the unique perspective of the small design firm. They understand that you often find yourself short of the time, money, and know-how it takes to advertise your services effectively. Drawing on their own experience as well as interviews with more than 30 successful designers, Martin and Knoohuizen show you how to overcome these limitations and develop an effective marketing campaign.

This incomparable guide will help you put together your marketing campaign, map out your strategy, and attract the attention of potential clients. Not everyone is a born salesperson, but Martin and Knoohuizen let you in on trade secrets that really work and offer suggestions that will help you feel more comfortable marketing yourself. You’ll learn to build relationships by effective use of referrals and word of mouth. You’ll master the subtleties of clinching the deal and discover how to keep your newfound clients coming back for more.

You’ll also receive sound advice from those who have been there before you. Charles Gandy, B. J. Peterson, Mark Hampton, and Cheryl P. Duvall are among the illustrious designers who share their wisdom, tips, and recommendations. You’ll find out how these major designers have coped with many of the same problems you face now, and you’ll learn from their mistakes as well as their triumphs.

Whether you’re just starting out in the design business, yearning to break free and become your own boss, or trying to create growth in an established firm, Marketing Basics for Designers helps you develop a successful marketing strategy based on your own needs, capabilities, and expectations.

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I found this book the best for examples on learning to draw draped garments on the body. Although not explicitly meant for this purpose, this book divides each type of garment by chapter and gives examples for drawing them, appropriately. I find her approach realistic, and her style excellent. She definitely helped me!

Still the best illulstration book out. by OAH
I have purchased almost every book on fashion illustration out there, and this is still the best. It covers all media, has beautiful full color illustrations and hundreds of black and white. It also shows how to illustrate males and children of all ages.

Fab Fashion by Donna McMenamin
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Anyone fortunate enough to have spent time in New York during the holiday seasonhas warm memories of being mesmerized by the spectacular window displays throughout the city. Even the most jaded New Yorker, wearied by work and the holiday crush, cannot help but slow their frenzied pace to gaze at the sights and sounds of these wondrous displays.

Now, for the first time, displays from the early 1900s to today are gathered in one keepsake volume. Organized by decade, brimming with archival black-and-white and color photography, this book commemorates the unique art of window design, from the traditional Victorian windows to the avant-garde. Displays from classic New York City stores, like Saks Fifth Avenue, Bloomingdale’s, Macy’s, Lord & Taylor, Bergdorf Goodman, Tiffany & Co., Henri Bendel, and Barneys, are all included-as well as displays from stores no longer in operation but fondly remembered by many, like Ohrbach’s, Gimbel’s, B.Altman, and Arnold Constable.

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Disappointing! by Betsy
Such a promising premise and such a disappointing book. Not only are the photos substandard, this book also fails to capture the spirit of Christmas in New York. I would return it if I could. Try to see a copy before you decide to buy.

Christmas in New York by Billy Wannyn
My wife loves this book - she says it would put anyone in the Christmas Spirit. My wife and daughter love to walk the streets of New York at Chrismas time and check out all the intricately decorated window displays!! Great History on the tradition of all the window displays!!!

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A Most Beautiful Christmas Book by rodney wiltin
This book is one of the most beautiful christmas books I have, maybe even the most beautiful.

This is the perfect book to put on your coffee table for the enjoyment of your guests (and yourself) for over the christmas holidays. The pictures are just amazing and really have sharp detail that really enhances the christmas mood.

And the plastic cut-out windows, 4 of them, really add an extra amount of ‘beautiful’ to this most perfect christmas book. These cut-out windows can actually be used on both sides of the pages and give you the appearance of 8 christmas window displays.

Not only would I recommend you get this book for yourself but also as gifts for others who enjoy the wonderful images of christmas.

A huge, 5 out of 5 star christmas book!

Book review by J. Bean
This is a lovely book with great pictures. It is a perfect gift-giving book. I am always looking for new and unusual Christmas books to give as gifts and this will be one of my choices for next Christmas!

Not worthy of a coffee table by ME
I just got this book today and I don’t think I can gift it to my mom. It’s cheap looking - there’s no nice cover, just fabric as if it has lost its cover. Also, the pages don’t turn easily due to the occasional “window” throughout the book. It’s actually stiff plastic. But mainly, the windows weren’t that interesting. I figured I’d see something terrific from today’s era….all of the examples looked very old fashioned. The past 30 years should’ve had some neat windows. Not.
I don’t think it’s worth the money. I’m giving it straight to the Goodwill pile. Not worthy of a coffee table.


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        Los Logos 4Los Logos 4 is the latest addition to Gestalten s line of books on contemporary
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disciplines which represent the essential visual identity of brands, companies
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At over 500 pages, Los Logos 4 is the largest volume to date, showcasing
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        Hot Rods and Custom Cars: Vintage Speed GraphicsHep and hopped up. Ford’s original Model T was the first car to undergo “speed modification,” a hobby that quickly grew into a $60-million aftermarket industry. Steadily picking up speed ever since, the practice of engine and body customization has become one of America’s favorite rites of passage. Hitting its stride in the 1950s, the underground hot rod culture spawned the likes of Rat Fink, Von Dutch, and George Barris– the King of Kustoms– while also inspiring a generation of rebels without a cause. Culled from the garages and toolboxes of hot rod enthusiasts, this essential collection of rare photos and ephemera is an essential for anyone who dreams of putting the pedal to the metal.

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        Twentieth-Century Design (Oxford History of Art)The most famous designs of the twentieth century are not those in museums, but in the marketplace. The Coca-Cola bottle and McDonald’s logo are known the world over and may tell us more about our culture than a narrowly-defined canon of classics. One of the world’s foremost design historians, Jonathan Woodham takes a fresh look at the wider issues of design and industrial culture throughout Europe, Scandinavia, North America, and the Far East. Drawing on the most up-to-date scholarship, he explores themes such as national identity, the “Americanization” of ideology and business methods, the rise of multi-nationals, Pop and Postmodernism, and contemporary ideas of nostalgia and heritage. Woodham sets the proliferation of everyday design against the writing of critics as diverse as Nikolaus Pevsner, the champion of Modernism, and Vance Packard, author of The Hidden Persuaders. The history which emerges is clearly seen for what it is: the powerful and complex expression of aesthetic, social, economic, political, and technological forces.

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        Retro Ride: Advertising Art of the American AutomobileA century ago the motorcar was a cantankerous, frail device that was difficult for all but a few visionaries to perceive as practical. By 1920, that picture had changed dramatically, and the automobile was well on its way to becoming the dominant transportation device in this country. However, the evolution of practical automobiles is only part of the story. In order to take advantage of mass production there had to be mass markets, and that meant advertising. RETRO RIDE traces the evolution of the automobile and the simultaneous marketing messages that helped it flower across five decades—the Roaring Twenties through the Go-Go Sixties. Beautifully illustrated with original advertisements, Retro Ride celebrates not only the beauty and diversity of the American automobile but also the heyday of American print advertising. It’s a ride well worth the taking.

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A Ride for your Eyes by Sam Jennings II
This is a great coffee table book. Packed with great images that is kind of nice to see compared to vans that now come standard with entertainment centers.

Retro Ride is a fun marketing review. I enjoyed how much some of the ads have not changed over the years. A lot of reference to “getting away” and having more space and later, more power.

I keep the book out for the enjoyment of my family and friends on a daily basis. I can recommend this book if you’re looking for a frivolous ride through our early marketing years of the automobile.

Reflects an undeniable nostalgia by Midwest Book Review
Through the reproduction of more than five hundred historical print advertisements in their original form and color, Retro Ride traces the evolution of the automobile and the developing sophistication of the marketing messages that helped to popularize the automobile and forever alter American popular culture. Over a spectrum of five decades ranging from the “Roaring Twenties through the Go-Go Sixties, Retro Ride showcases original print advertizing that provided the consumer public with information and myth with that shaped their perspectives, attitudes and relationships to the automobile. A unique contribution to American popular culture histories, Retro Ride reflects an undeniable nostalgia for those of us who can vividly remember when such cars and such ads offered up automotive visions of affordable paradise and personal fulfillment.

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Previous reviews have addressed the attractions this lovely volume has for car lovers. However, I found it a marvelous mirror of American society through the first 2/3rds of the 20th century. Family values, exploration and the desire for the good life characterized pre-depression advertising. Luxury and escapism dominated pre-WW II graphics. Technology and patriotism surfaced during the war. Family themes and safety emerged during the birth of the baby boomers as full station wagons and back seats filled with kids were portrayed. Increasing disposable income in the 50’s prompted a return to the freedom of the road, travel and a new emphasis on performance. By the early sixties, couples in romantic situations had replaced families as cars were portrayed as an accessory to a “sexy” lifestyle. The question that remained was whether advertisers established these trends or took their cues from the mood of the country.

Amazing! by M. Cherevko
Do you remember those magic colorful books with fairytales from your childhood? You have a decent chance to look inside one of them again. No, there is no Snow White in it, and there are no seven dwarfs (not even one). But the style of the book, its cosy, beautiful, (mostly) large-scale pictures recalls all the warmest feelings from your past. This book is not written, it is just compiled. There is only the foreword in it (not a bad one). So, you won’t find many new facts here, but this book can charm you without any word. It is created to take you to those better days when the life was easier and the future was brighter, and that’s a wonderful feeling!

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For years car ads must have been the ultimate goal for any slick photorealist style artist though I bet there was actually only a small number who could achieve the high standards required by Detroit. The five hundred ad paintings in this book are the pick of the crop. They run from 1923 thru 1965, from the mid-sixties photos were the dominant graphic in car ads.

As these ads were doing their best to put a positive spin on owning a particular make, paintings were the ideal medium to create desire and so much easier to exaggerate reality. A whole society of wee folk was created to spend their lives zooming about town or country, permanently smiling and always waving to somebody along the highway. According to these paintings, most cars would easily accommodate four people in the front. The 1948 Hudson ad (page eighty-five) shows a wee person enjoying `…a heaping portion of roominess and comfort…’ sitting on a back seat that looks like it could easily hold six. By the mid-sixties photography had replaced illustrations but the exaggeration continued, have a look at `Boulevard Photographic’ by Jim Williams, the story of Detroit’s leading car photo studio.

I found it very interesting that these cars, very precisely painted, were usually placed in a setting that did not require the same amount of accuracy. The more popular makes were shown in everyday situations, pages ninety-four and ninety-five show three super street scenes with everybody looking at the latest model, naturally. Nearly all these ad paintings are anonymous but there are some by well-known artists, Austin Briggs painted the 1956 Chevrolet Bel Air and 1958 Chevrolet Impala, Stan Galli did the 1955 Bel Air and Bernie Fuchs the 1960 Cadillac Coupe De Ville. The ultimate in car art was the work of Art Fitzpatrick (car) and Van Kaufman (background) who created dozens of masterpieces for Pontiac in the fifties and sixties, the book has twenty-two of their ads. Have a look at their web site Fitz-art.

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        The Brand Gap: How to Bridge the Distance Between Business Strategy and Design

THE BRAND GAP is the first book to present a unified theory of brand. Whereas most books on branding are weighted toward either a strategic or creative approach, this book shows how both ways of thinking can unite to produce a “charismatic brand”—a brand that customers feel is essential to their lives. In an entertaining two-hour read you’ll learn:
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Not since McLuhan’s THE MEDIUM IS THE MESSAGE has a book compressed so many ideas into so few pages. Using the visual language of the boardroom, Neumeier presents the first unified theory of branding — a set of five disciplines to help companies bridge the gap between brand strategy and brand execution. Those with a grasp of branding will be inspired by what they find here, and those who would like to understand it better will suddenly “get it.” This deceptively simple book offers everyone in the company access to “the most powerful business tool since the spreadsheet.”

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shortest treatise on branding by J. Malnar
in existence, that still tells most important things about branding you need to know.
It said nothing new to me, but then again I have read the authors and branding / positioning gurus Marty Neumeier mentions and quotes plus two dozen other books on branding and strategy.
So instead of doing it the hard way, like I did, you CAN actually find out most you need to know about branding from this rather small book during a three hour flight.
One thing I don’t like about this book is its “look and feel”, layout and fonts.
Its like the author wanted to be SO COOL and innovative SO BAD that he took it overboard. I found it annoying, not cool at all.

I love this book by Jennifer Grigg
Of all the marketing books I have, this one makes the most sense. More than just quips and anticdotes, it is actual research and experience. I recommend it to my friends and family.

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This is one of the best books ever written. It is insightful for consumers, for businesses, for marketing professionals and… well, anyone! It makes you think, it makes you see marketing and advertising in a whole new way, and it will make you smarter - period. I think this should be mandatory reading in high schools across the world.

Do not attempt to be a web designer, an advertising professional, or an enterpreneur until you read this book.

Intro to Branding 101 - Basic but boring by Allen Chang
A quick, high level and easy-to-read intro to branding. This book seems targeted to people who are interested in a high-level, general view of brand theory and brand strategy. It gives a few main ideas on the meaning of a brand, different ways to manage a brand and how to maintain your brand. It makes a few big points but doesn’t provide any sort of justification or research into why you should believe their view of branding. Many pages have less than 10 words, but make a bold and simple point. However, the book fails to live up to its name of “The Brand Gap” and doesn’t give any suggestions on how to bridge it

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Good read, makes you think by E. Furnal
Brand Gap was a quick airplane read. It’s layout and common sense language made it an easy read. The book had very good points about brands versus logos and some real world mistakes that companies make. I read the book four weeks ago and I’m still thinking about it! Somewhat shotty construction, though - my book binding fell apart.


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