From JKR, the Cam­den based pack­ag­ing design agency, comes an intrigu­ing col­lec­tion of mar­ket­ing and brand­ing quips titled “The Blue Lady’s New Look and Oth­er Curiosi­ties: Posts from the Cross­roads of Design and Mar­ket­ing.”

An anthol­o­gy from JKR’s blog, “Design Gazette,” this is the type of book one picks up to exer­cise the mind. Some of the titles:

“How come a brand of rot­ting fish entrails from the first cen­tu­ry AD still has a pro­mo­tion run­ning?”

“Can graph­ics make a car go faster, or put a ball in the net?”

“Is gen­der bend­ing ok for brands?”

“Can bad taste make for a good design?”

“Do we want to be delight­ed by a cash machine?”


The Blue Lady’s New Look and Oth­er Curiosi­ties: Posts from the Cross­roads of Design and Mar­ket­ing
Paper­back: 156 pages
9.1″ × 5.9″
Pub­lished by JKR Brand First Books (Decem­ber 14, 2010)
ISBN-10: 0956716105
ISBN-13: 978–0956716101