http://bradmccall.com/blog/2006/11/15/kfc-creates-first-brand-visible-from-space/ Branding, Usability, and Random Thoughts (Not quite so daily) Wed, 10 Mar 2010 07:27:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 http://bradmccall.com/blog/2006/11/15/kfc-creates-first-brand-visible-from-space/#comment-32 Jonathan Hull’s Design Blog » Blog Archive » Unnatural obsession with maps Thu, 16 Nov 2006 02:31:04 +0000 http://bradmccall.com/blog/2006/11/15/kfc-creates-first-brand-visible-from-space/#comment-32 [...] Reading my friend Brad’s blog this evening, brings to mind my unnatural obsession with maps… and sets me off on a bit of a rambling blog… and not really related to design, other than the fact that my portfolio has perhaps a disproportionate amount of maps. As anyone around me knows, I tend to take my GPS receiver just about anywhere and save the tracks– that and bore everyone with some sort of stat about our location or speed. Google earth is my friend. Especially when i discovered I could “http://www.gpsvisualizer.com/map?form=googleearth” TARGET=”_blank”> convert my GPS tracks into files which Google earth can open. Knowing that, I do silly things like this on trips: [...] [...] Reading my friend Brad’s blog this evening, brings to mind my unnatural obsession with maps… and sets me off on a bit of a rambling blog… and not really related to design, other than the fact that my portfolio has perhaps a disproportionate amount of maps. As anyone around me knows, I tend to take my GPS receiver just about anywhere and save the tracks– that and bore everyone with some sort of stat about our location or speed. Google earth is my friend. Especially when i discovered I could “http://www.gpsvisualizer.com/map?form=googleearth” TARGET=”_blank”> convert my GPS tracks into files which Google earth can open. Knowing that, I do silly things like this on trips: [...]

]]> http://bradmccall.com/blog/2006/11/15/kfc-creates-first-brand-visible-from-space/#comment-31 Brad McCall Thu, 16 Nov 2006 01:11:30 +0000 http://bradmccall.com/blog/2006/11/15/kfc-creates-first-brand-visible-from-space/#comment-31 You're probably right about that one. Perhaps the <a href="http://www.crystalinks.com/nazca.html" rel="nofollow">Nazca Lines</a> were just a part of an ancient branding strategy. You’re probably right about that one. Perhaps the Nazca Lines were just a part of an ancient branding strategy.

]]> http://bradmccall.com/blog/2006/11/15/kfc-creates-first-brand-visible-from-space/#comment-30 Jonathan Thu, 16 Nov 2006 01:04:46 +0000 http://bradmccall.com/blog/2006/11/15/kfc-creates-first-brand-visible-from-space/#comment-30 So THAT'S what the Nazca Lines were all about. So THAT’S what the Nazca Lines were all about.

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