My Day of Brands

This is a recording of my interactions with various brands in a single day inspired by a similar post by Melanie Linehan on her blog, MLinsight.

I awoke. Showered with Old Spice and Every Man Jack. Prepared my clothing with Sunbeam Iron & Target ironing board. Filled my tummy with Archer Farms bread, toasted in a Michael Graves Toaster and All Natural Archer Farms Peanut Butter and washed it down with Archer Farm’s Organic Nonfat Milk. I prepared my face with Wahl trimmer & Gillete Mach 3 Turbo shaver followed by Every Man Jack, prepared my mouth with Colgate, Oral-b & Listerine, sprayed on some Old Spice and dressed in Target, Express for Men & Cole Haan.

Drove to work in my Toyota while listening to MGMT, Keane & Phoenix on my iPhone. Stopped at Starbucks for my daily Venti Misto. Got to work opened my Swiss backpack, plugged my MacBook Pro into my Mac Keyboard, Mac Display and switched on my Mac Wireless Magic Mouse. Fired up Blogger, Twitter, Facebook, Mobile Me, Tweet Deck, AIM and Yahoo to connect with the world and began work on Word, Powerpoint, Adobe CS4 and Entourage.

Lunch break with Kashi meal and glass of water in a Coca-Cola glass while flipping through NOTCOT, Ads of the World and Tweet Deck. Back to work: Mobile Me, Adobe CS4, Word, Entourage. Meeting. Break for the second Starbucks Misto that I fetch in my Toyota. Work Work Work.

Break to head to coffee with a friend in my Toyota to Common Grounds for a White Chocolate Mocha. Conversation.

Drive home in my Toyota. iPhone, Bowflex, Genius List, Blogger, Twitter, Facebook, Mobile Me. Read The Fountinhead by Ayn Rand, check my Google Analytics and sleep.

The overall winners in my book are Target, Starbucks and Apple.

Non-Existent Hero

Can your hero be non-existent?

Society, across all spectrums, appears to have embraced the idea that one can become a hero to another before their prime has passed or even when it has just started. For example, a few designers and artists that are currently looked up to and studied in art and design schools are still very much active in their fields, such as Barbara Kruger, Michael Graves or Milton Glaser.

My question though is the idea that your hero could actually be someone younger than yourself. The concept of looking up to one that is a fresh up start. An example for me, and a few of the people that I went to MCAD with, is Olly Moss. A relatively younger designer and illustrator in the UK, best know for his movie poster work, that could be at par with some of the greats such as Paul Rand or the Eames.

I don’t think it is unusual because I feel that when one is a great in their field, no matter what their age or industry experience, they deserve the recognition for their ability.