Corporate pride

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[–]yetanotherone_sigh 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

The moment you ever see any parade or protest with preprinted (professionally produced) signs or banners, you know this is being paid for by somebody. In this case, MasterCard spent thousands of dollars to design that, print it out, and probably had to pay somebody to walk it in the parade. They may have even paid for the placement in the parade.

My favorite is when a spontaneous protest erupts. Someone (Shareblue) pays for the busses, the protestors (actors), the signs, and even the media placement. If you see hundreds of preprinted protest signs that are all the same, caveat emptor. You are being sold a prepackaged news story.

[–]happysmash27 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

They payed someone thousands of dollars to design such a relatively simple graphic?

[–]yetanotherone_sigh 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

You've never been a part of a marketing / graphics design team, have you? That graphic with the rainbow took a team at least a week and three drafts to complete for the customer. Guarantee that hashtag went through a focus group.

Our business gets a minor revision to its logo about once every two years (one year it was a gradient color from top to bottom, the next year it was a solid color with a border, the next time it was a font change). We all get new shirts and new business cards. They have to throw out 9/10 of a box of business cards with the old logo. They cost the company $250 per person. We have 1000 employees.

[–]RLS89ZX 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yeah, its such a complete waste of money. Those stupid Bourgeoisie Banksters