Comments for Of Lobsters & Ligatures

Comment on Independence Day 2010—July 3 by P-Diddy

P-Diddy — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 07:56:48 +0000

You look real cute in an apron, martha stewart watch out.

Comment on More of the Same by Luke Rolka

Luke Rolka — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 06:28:55 +0000

XFINITY comes across like Comcast thinks they’re all grown up and finally can hang out with the cool kids. Instead it looks like a gawky rich dude who purchased a Sony Xplode subwoofer to pimp out their Segway.

Comment on More of the Same by Grant

Grant — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 05:06:20 +0000

I’m happy they decided to change their name to something bland and uninspired. It’s a free notice that the upper management making decisions are bland and uninspired decision makers. And they were probably sick of being called comcrap.

Comment on More of the Same by Link

Link — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 03:05:22 +0000

http://bit.ly/4YBIew

This is what I see when looking at XFINITY’s logo. Also, I think of XHIBIT.

Comment on Crabfest ’09 by Andrew Wheeler

Andrew Wheeler — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 22:40:46 +0000

Thanks Evan – Will check it out.

I would have put money on the ‘photoshop’ word appearing, so I’m surprised! Good work.

Comment on Crabfest ’09 by Evan Rowe

Evan Rowe — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 18:55:29 +0000

All of the pictures were taken with my iPhone, and for all but one of them I used an app called Camera Kit to do the post-processing. Here’s their site; the web page is poorly designed but the app is top notch. http://bit.ly/E1Fq0

Comment on Crabfest ’09 by Andrew Wheeler

Andrew Wheeler — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 18:49:29 +0000

I love the dark effect on the photos – How did you it?

Comment on Hellogoodbye To Tropicana by Evan Rowe

Evan Rowe — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 21:24:59 +0000

Art, I’m not totally convinced that the design itself lost a significant enough amount of sales or market share to warrant the rollback. (Of course, if you have actual figures to back up those claims, go for it.) The major complaint customers had was that the important information on the label was difficult to find and that it took longer to select the type of juice they wanted. Most people loyal to the Tropicana brand weren’t going to start buying Minute Maid just because of the design change, and certainly not over the short period of time that the updated packages were on store shelves.

While there may indeed have been some impact on sales from the design change, the issue was ease of readability and usage. The point of the article I wrote (and the discussion in the comments) was to analyze the positive and negative points of both the original redesign and the rollback. Anybody can see that sales could well have been an impact, but it’s not as simple as that; there are reasons the design caused loss of sales (either small or large), and the goal was to discuss those rather than gloss over the issue and write it off as a quantitative problem.

Comment on Hellogoodbye To Tropicana by art

art — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 18:44:58 +0000

The reason the new design was changed back to the previous is simple, the new design lost sales and market share for Tropicana since launch – Pretty good reason for Pepsi to have a change of heart wouldn’t you agree? The bottom line is consumers decide what works best for them and vote with their wallets. Clearly, there was much they liked about the previous design and did not in the new direction.

Comment on Social Networking COULD Be Viable: The Dave Chapelle Incident by Hilary

Hilary — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 10:41:26 +0000

Very funny Evan, and oh so true. It was quite an experience being out there tonight, but oh so worth it. Portland really is weird, but you gotta love it.