March 10th, 2011 | by mykl | published in coffee, design
It’s Starbucks 40th anniversary this week. You may have noticed their Foursquare campaign aimed at spreading the love and giving away gift cards to a select number of folks who check in before Saturday. Their new branding also started appearing in stores this week.
January 5th, 2011 | by mykl | published in coffee, design
To celebrate their 40th anniversary, Starbucks unveiled today what they are calling their new logo. It’s really a just wordless version of their old logo, with a larger siren now in green. Apparently cropping is now considered logo design. As much as I’m a fan of their coffee, I’m not very impressed with this new [...]
March 3rd, 2010 | by mykl | published in best of, coffee, design
I have a love/hate relationship with Caribou Coffee. Followers of my Foursquare activity will find this surprising since I check into their locations frequently. While not my favorite corporate cup of joe, I often fall prey to the convenience of tripping over their stores throughout my day (most of their 500 locations are in Minnesota). [...]
October 9th, 2007 | by mykl | published in design, web work
Photo by mamamusings Mike Gunderloy at Web Worker Daily just posted 4 Branding Lessons from Wall Drug combining two subjects close to my heart — branding and the kitsch mecca of the South Dakota prairie. Ever since my first visit to Wall Drug, I’ve known it was a special place (I even run a Flickr [...]
Hi there. I'm Mykl Roventine. I design things like web sites, WordPress blogs and social media strategies. This is my personal blog (not affiliated with any employer or client) where I write about the social web, typography and coffee. More →
