Quotes of the week
Why the Commonwealth Games logo should have cost £12, Michael Wolff's chicken or egg dilemma and the inner turmoil of a cartoon monkey. It's thedrum.co.uk's quotes of the week...
"How will the [Commonwealth Games] identity be received? Hopefully well..."
Mark Noe, the man behind the Commonwealth Games logo, should probably avoid the papers for a while.
"I know that when the SNP designed their iconic logo back in the Sixties, it cost them about £12. That would seem to be about the right price. The company that provided this logo deserve a medal for their entrepreneurial flair."
The Commonwealth brand was about £94,888 too expensive according to design-savvy MSP Margo MacDonald.
"Which came first, the complicated chicken or the effortless egg? The egg is a pleasure; the chicken, a scrawny mess."
The Games' identity has divided opinion. Michael Wolff chips in with the old chicken/egg metaphor.
"...fact is the guy behind this is pissed off and wants revenge and the internet offers him a massive stage."
Nation 1 MD Andrew Grant threatens legal action over a spoof website claiming to represent Nation 1 and alleging the agency has a liberal attitude towards paying its suppliers...
“I’ve made my point.”
Ramsey McFarlane pulls the offending site offline before the lawyers get involved.
"The human condition exquisitely expressed by the artist though the medium of light crunchy chocolate balls, juxtaposed with the inner turmoil of a cartoon monkey."
Ad agency BJL brings highbrow criticism to posters for Coco Pops to promote its Art in Advertising exhibition.
"Media interest in nude subjects is always high..."
SKV's Richard Bond explains why his agency has been hired to PR Spencer Tunick's mass nude art project in Manchester: journalists can't get enough of nudity. Ahem.
“When somebody’s caught, literally with their pants down or with their hand in the till, then you have a story which is legitimate, but I’ve rarely seen an operation in which the method of news management has generated as much speculation as the actual departure."
Crisis PR man Martin Paterson thinks the public relations blitz over Steven Purcell's resignation as leader of Glasgow City Council has only made his departure more confusing.
"Even in his schooldays at Ryder Brow in Gorton (Myra Hindley was a fellow pupil) he held art exhibitions in his back yard, and on one famous occasion, while his parents were away, he painted a replica of the Sistine Chapel on their bedroom ceiling."
John Hewitt pays a fitting tribute to his friend and long-time creative partner Michel Huét, who sadly passed away this week.