The Business of Brand Management | Page 9

SHORTS

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 […]

Editorials

Identity, brand, future (II)

PERSPECTIVES

A discussion with AI as an experiment. The discussion with the Chinese AI chatbot DeepSeek is the second part of an exploration of questions of identity, brands […]

Editorials

The magentamorphosis

Prof. Dr. Jürgen Häusler

Who on earth turned magenta into a brand color? And how? And why? A contemporary witness and observing participant (from 1991 to 2015) looks back (for a […]

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 […]

Opinions

A more user-friendly government? A (very) bad joke.

Prof. Dr. Jürgen Häusler

A MODEST PROPOSAL

Donald J. Trump has never been shy about his obsession with appearances. From the gold-plated bathrooms of Trump Tower to his insistence that hamburgers be served on […]