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Ep. 7 - PlayTime Play is a primary condition for culture and creativity, and key to personal development and well-being. So why is it overlooked by brands? Show Notes Sturgis Motorcycle Rally Roger Caillois Model of Games Csikszentmihalyi Flow Model Donald Winnicott "The Last Dance" Michael Jordan Documentary on Netflix Johan Huizinga - "Homo Ludens" Iambic Pentameter Sturgis Spitting Contest How...

Ep. 6 - Standards Brand standards in a dynamic world. Show Notes Don Pullen Tone Cluster Example Leonard Bernstein Videos Standards.site The NASA "Worm" McWhorter Trader Joe's article Trader Joe's response to criticism Alfred Hitchcock on improvisation Personal Identity/Brand Identity Milgram Experiment Stanford Prison Experiment Patty Hearst Symbionese Liberation Army Kidnapping Jürgen Habermas H...

Ep. 5 - Runaway American Dream Tracing the American myths of open space, freedom, and control. Show Notes Polaris Slingshot Revel Mopeds Mad Max Cannonball Run (NOT the film!) El Dorado and Utopia Arthur Guiterman - Poem "Daniel Boone" "They Live By Night" Freud's Personality Theory "Manifest Destiny" YouGov Flat Earth Survey Atlantic Magazine - Cognitive Dissonance article Leon Festinger on Cogni...

What the traditional Japanese practice of "shashiko" reveals about our relationship to products and time. Show Notes Aeon Psyche essay : "Could the art of 'sashiko' help to mend our frayed world?" Erving Goffman - The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life Kinsugi : Repairing broken ceramics in visible ways Alan Watts Lecture - Uncarved Block, Unbleached Silk Charlie Chaplin : "The Tramp" King Arth...

Ep. 3 - Be Here Now Show Notes Thoughts on time, gravity and space in COVID-era presentations. Apple World Wide Developers Conference Video WWDC Intro Images Steve Jobs Introduces First iPhone Closer Animoji view Steve Jobs Theater entrance Microsoft Build Conference Video Apple Racial Equity and Justice Initiative Walter Benjamin's Essay: The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction Lumi...

Show Notes Tom and Mark discuss how brands have responded to recent social protests in response to the murder of George Floyd and Black Lives Matter demonstrations. Shantell Martin. Shantell Martin on Instagram. Shantell Martin's response to McCann. Hathaway Shirt advertising. Please subscribe and review The BrandBox on Apple Podcasts .

The BrandBox - Ep. 1 - Introductions Show Notes Kendall Jenner for Pepsi Walter Landor Wikipedia page Hank Mobley - A Caddy For Daddy SVA Master's In Branding program Mikel Rouse Dr. Tom Guarriello Mark Kingsley