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Love in the time of packaging

The internet and the culture of marketing it brings is making life harder for marketing & packaging

brands, retail, e-commerce, marketing, packaging
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(Top) shelf throw, imperative to survive in the crowd; (bottom left) prominent, clear brand units are essential to survive reduction on a webpage in e-commerce; (bottom right) modern retail allows an unhurried, deeper narration of the brand.

Itu Chaudhuri
It looks like a particularly unhealthy time to be a brand,” said the slayer of ordinary design, a sardonic, sage and street-wise guru known more usually as the SOD, a term, as he pointed out, for a piece of turf — grass, earth and all.

 “First,” said the Sod, easing into a chair at the barbershop he’d chosen for our chat, “someone suggested that the logo had done its time, (didn’t you write a column on that, too?) and was no longer central to the brand’s identity. Now you tell me that the art and science of packaging design — the