1 year ago
Click on the picture to read a fascinating (if slightly obsessive) history of the Lego brand and their pack designs. This 1958 pack shows the Christiansen kids playing with their grandfather’s toy - while the next ten years saw a move to a Scandanavian “modern” design style that dominated both their packs and products till very recently.
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2 years ago
Branding for Cancer- the origins of Daffodil Day «
This blog has been very quiet of late - hopefully regular readers will forgive the lapse, blow the dust off our URL, and enjoy a return to more regular updates from now on.
Part of the reason for blogging silence in recent months was an illness in the extended DesignTactics family - an uncomfortably close call with cancer. Five months later, after two major operations and one long wait for results, the news now seems positive.
To mark this, and as a thank-you to the teams in the Coombe and St. James’s Hospital, here’s a link to the Irish Cancer Society’s online Garden of Hope for Daffodil Day.
I haven’t been able to find the (presumably Irish) agency who set up this site - but I know the idea originates from a 2005 site commissioned by BSD Medical and created by Paul Mayne in Salt Lake City, Utah.
And for the curious amongst you, here’s the history of the Daffodil as brand for cancer fund raising - it originated in Canada in 1957.
