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By: Stephen Glanville

Stephen Glanville — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 06:54:19 +0000

Thanks mate…but after the last couple of days, I not at all tempted to write the LONG version :- )

Re: ‘Sleeping with the Enemy’ – dunno, I’ve not slept there :- )…http://www.sleepingwiththeenemy.com/ (Great marketing on their Homepage)

Cheers

Stephen G

By: Paul Hassing

Paul Hassing — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 06:42:53 +0000

That was so interesting, I’m tempted to ask for the LONG version!

I just heard the thud of 15 first-year graphic design students dropping out to take up telemarketing!

Did you perchance feel an affinity with the tin and tea towel arranging protagonist of ‘Sleeping with the Enemy’?

By: Stephen Glanville

Stephen Glanville — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 06:38:29 +0000

You should know only too well by now mate, that I can talk you through just about bluddy anything! :- )

Ok here goes; I’ll try something new…brevity!

The origin & meaning of my Tri-colour Logo. Hmmm!..

It all started with the first single-celled organism…Ha! Did I scare ya? :- )

One important consideration that has underpinned every logo I’ve ever designed is that it holds branding integrity in as many sizes and media as possible…and very importantly, fulfills the aforementioned criteria in Black & White (Faxes & reduced printing costs – though this isn’t as much an issue now with Digital Printing).

Being a DIY Solo Act, I wanted something easy to work with and replicate. Using these primary colours makes it dead easy when translating or replicating across various colour coding matrices. For example, the RGB coding for these colours are:

Red: 255, 0, 0
Green: 0, 255, 0
Yellow: 255, 255, 0

Dead easy to match exactly in any colour coding medium and dead easy to remember when dickin’ around with PHP & HTML during web design. No fiddling around with ‘Colour Pickers’.

These colours, in combination, also have a long established branding association of their own; being commonly & Globally associated with anything to do with Pizzas.

They are also equate in frequency to the chords A, E & C (as I recall…I can’t be bothered looking it up again :- P), which are the foundation of most ‘Popular’ Songs. Harmonically they also represent the 3 basic geometric shapes found in such archaic epistemologies as Buddhism, Vedic Science, Zen etc. i.e. Square, Circle & Triangle. They are up-beat and primal.

These three colours are found in and associated with 3 of our major food groups (Dairy – Yellow, Meat – Red & Vegies – Green) There is a biological response to these colours that triggers salivation…like a visual entree…tricky huh? :- )

Rub all of the above together and it forms what I wished to embody in my business…a Spiritual & Physical sense of ‘Wholeness’, generating feelings of being nourished, safe and at home.

It works well on a black or white background.

And it’s pretty and I liked it :- )

That’s about it in a nutshell :- )

Cheers

Stephen G

PS So much for brevity…I’ll just have to keep working on that one :- P

By: Yari McGauley

Yari McGauley — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 05:51:54 +0000

Part 2, Part 2!!

By: Paul Hassing

Paul Hassing — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 05:45:22 +0000

Thanks, Mate. I reviewed Malcolm’s book, but it never got up. I may have been too gushy. Or maybe I clacked when I should have clicked.

I’d not heard of this initiative before you flagged it. I agree it’s a cool move by Business Victoria.

While we’re talking $5,000 marketing makeovers, can you talk us through the origin and meaning of your tri-colour logo?

By: Stephen Glanville

Stephen Glanville — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 05:41:39 +0000

It’s the least I could do, & it was easy ’cause I meant it : )

All we need now is a few readers to pop in and whack-up a few ‘Ratings’. I tried to do it, but because I submitted them, my ratings/reviews wouldn’t stick.

I don’t expect it will lead to any massive trackback spikes, but as you have found out already, every little bit helps in the virtual arena.

I thought it was a bold and useful idea & service by Business Victoria…I don’t qualify for selection in the Prize Pool though, because I’m not from Victoria…but that’s not why I did it…I just reckon it’s a good service and they are bluddy good eBooks.

Cheers

Stephen G

By: Paul Hassing

Paul Hassing — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 05:27:42 +0000

Dear Stephen, your nomination of my ebook is a breathtakingly unexpected kind deed and vote of confidence. Thank you SO much!

Can’t wait to see what this trackback does to my site stats. That was jolly decent of you.

I’m going to put a call out to retired brick cladding salespeople. Let’s see if we can get some post war stories going in here. Thanks again!

By: Stephen Glanville

Stephen Glanville — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 05:19:13 +0000

That’s a good question mate…perhaps some of the answer is embodied in the fact that they don’t do it anymore? :- )

I used to have a similar curiosity about those ‘Brush Fences’ from around the same era…now also, seemingly extinct :- P

Hey! Just a by the way, your bluddy outstanding eBooks (your’s and Malcolm’s), are now listed on Business Victoria’s ‘Business Plans & Checklists’ section under ‘Marketing’ > ‘Tips & How to guides’…check ‘em out here – http://toolsandtemplates.business.vic.gov.au/marketing/tips_and_how_to_guides?25747_result_page=2

Jeez! I wonder how they got up there? :- P

Cheers

Stephen G