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SHORTS

Global brands on a shrinking course?

Alexander Rauch

To Be Discussed

Dear reader, Big news from Audi: in China, the country to which the Volkswagen Group has unconditionally surrendered itself, Audi will soon exist twice as a brand! […]

Editorials

The ends of the parabola

Uli Mayer-Johanssen

RE-VIEW

If we save ourselves poor, it makes people ill. If there is too much choice, it makes us unhappy - despite our enthusiasm for diversity. Not only […]

Editorials

The branded enemy. How Trump turns people into labels

Prof. Dr. Jürgen Häusler

In early July, a journalist asked Donald Trump a question about political responsibility for the recent flooding in Florida. Trump did not respond with facts or policy—he […]

Editorials

Brave new world in ruins (2)

Uli Mayer-Johanssen

RE-VIEW

The willing executors In the early days of digital media, the pioneers marketed themselves as the saviors of a world without borders. Today, they are proving to […]

Editorials

Warning: Nation branding can lead to a loss of reality.

Dr. Eric Häusler Prof. Dr. Jürgen Häusler

A MODEST PROPOSAL

Jessica Gienow-Hecht is a leading historian of transnational cultural and foreign policy. All the more reason for branding experts to be curious about her new book: Vom Staat […]

Editorials

Identity, brand, future (III)

PERSPECTIVES

A discussion with AI as an experiment. We have reached the third round of our discussion with the Chinese AI chatbot DeepSeek. After considering the development of […]

Editorials

Urban Villages™. On the Commodification of Heterogeneity in the Branded Cityscape

Dr. Eric Häusler Prof. Dr. Jürgen Häusler

A MODEST PROPOSAL

Urban branding is based on a fundamental paradox: it seeks uniqueness—yet increasingly draws on what has traditionally resisted representation. It is the unruly, unofficial, socially unregulated spaces […]

Editorials

New York™. A city as a brand cosmos?

Dr. Eric Häusler Prof. Dr. Jürgen Häusler

A MODEST PROPOSAL

The outcome of the Democratic primary election in New York City was a thunderclap: "The Mamdani earthquake" (The New York Times). The presumed frontrunner – equipped with […]

Opinions

A world without brands

What remains when brands one day disappear?A reflection on meaning, soul and responsibility in a perfectly smooth world … more. For more than twenty-five years, I’ve been […]

Opinions

Good designers are dangerous*

Prof. em. Olaf Leu Bodo Rieger

1. for those customers who give wishy-washy information instead of justifying facts and positions. For example: The added value and unique position of their branded products […]