QVC Shows a Nook Off With Profanity
QVC recently threw a Barnes & Noble Nook up for sale on TV. The bad news is the page they displayed from The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo.
(hat tip to soaptylerdurden from reddit)
Retail
Black Holiday Shoppers at Target
WBAL in Baltimore goofed on a segment about Black Friday, putting up a caption that omitted the word Friday. The caption’s Black Holiday Shoppers results are below:
(via mediaite)
MacBook Air Suspended By a Helium Balloon
Such cool marketing from Apple. They’ve suspended a MacBook Air with a helium balloon in their store window to illustrate just how light the Air is. The balloon looks pretty thick and could be industrial, but it’s still something to look at.
Wet Seal Designers Can’t Spell?
Wet Seal sells a Tunic which uses an incorrect spelling of your. I can’t stand this. People have a hard enough spelling as it is. Now there’s a retailer contributing to the problem.
Dead Retail Stores From the Past
Did you ever go to Bradlees and pick up some bitchin’ dungarees?? It was a blast from the past to see all these retail stores that have closed down on a recent Boston.com article titled Defunct stores of yesterday, yesteryear. I’d link you to the article but it’s already behind a pay wall. Their article also mentioned Dead Malls, who seem to be a master on this stuff.
The Gap Backtracks to Old Logo After Online Shit Storm
The Gap has returned to using their classic blue-box logo after the internet let out a collective “WTF” over their recent rebranding. There was a even a website built dedicated to making your own crappy Gap-style logo: http://craplogo.me. In a news release, The Gap had this to say:
“Since we rolled out an updated version of our logo last week on our website, we’ve seen an outpouring of comments from customers and the online community in support of the iconic blue box logo.
“Last week, we moved to address the feedback and began exploring how we could tap into all of the passion. Ultimately, we’ve learned just how much energy there is around our brand. All roads were leading us back to the blue box, so we’ve made the decision not to use the new logo on gap.com any further.
Sean John Designers Rip Off Artwork for T-Shirt
It’s shitty and astonishing at the same time how non-designers rip off designers’ work all the time. With how popular the internet is, you’d think the voice in their head would say “Do not do this shit. You will get caught and really embarrassed.” Design theft has happened to many known designers like Dan Cederholm (big ups), Rob Morris, Jason Santa Maria. And the community found out about each one and shamed the people that stole. Sean John stealing a Pentagram design is the newest theft to occur online and it’s not even close to an argument. Flat-out stolen. Pentagram sent out a tweet about how they felt. Haha they even spelled Sean John as Sean Jean…probably on purpose: “Demons” Tshirt by Sean Jean is a shocking ripoff of Marian Bantjes’s work for Yale Architecture
New Gap Logo…Love it? Hate it?
The Gap has unveiled a new logo on their corporate website…and people are definitely hating on it. But could it be planned? With all the recent publicity that Apple received for their iTunes logo redesign, could The Gap be making a calculated decision to spark discussion on social media outposts?
On their Facebook page, The Gap released this message in response to the criticism:
American Apparel Might Get Delisted…Having Money Problems
Things are not looking so hip for hipster clothing line American Apparel these days. The New York Stock Exchange (NYX) is considering defiling American Apparel due to its late quaterly filings. AA’s own accountant, Deloitte & Touche even quit on them. Their statement being that American Apparel’s 2009 numbers may not be reliable. The Bloomberg Businessweek article we read this on suggests that American Apparel’s management team might not know how to properly cross their Ts and dot their Is. If you were to buy stock in AA today, you’d pay $2, down from $16.80 in December of 2007.
Banana Republic Bulge Getting Too Literal
So apparently Banana Republic let a photo of a really hung dude exist on their website for a while before they photoshopped it back to the G-Rated version. I really like the user comments below, particularly Miss Madge from Los Angeles, CA:
“I was just telling my husband the other day that it’s really hard to find a good schlong shadow when perusing online catalogs. Thank you for thinking outside of the box and showing us how good a well endowed man can look in a snappy pair of trousers.”