http://www.bondgrp.com Creating opportunities, building brands. Thu, 06 Oct 2011 16:59:11 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 http://www.bondgrp.com/blog/the-rov-of-steve-jobs/ http://www.bondgrp.com/blog/the-rov-of-steve-jobs/#comments Thu, 06 Oct 2011 14:44:24 +0000 Joe Bond http://www.bondgrp.com/?p=1628 Risk, Originality and Virtuosity. I can’t think of three better words to describe Steve Jobs. Gymnasts learn the acronym early when they start to understand the underlying criteria that determines their score. Steve Jobs flipped entire industries upside-down by taking …]]> http://www.bondgrp.com/blog/the-rov-of-steve-jobs/feed/ 0 http://www.bondgrp.com/blog/watching-a-bookstore-die/ http://www.bondgrp.com/blog/watching-a-bookstore-die/#comments Tue, 19 Jul 2011 15:18:27 +0000 Joe Bond http://www.bondgrp.com/?p=1547 On the day my Kindle arrived, I purchased some books from a “Going out of Business” Borders store. The dichotomy was not lost on me as I walked around the empty displays. I really knew that store. It was always …]]> http://www.bondgrp.com/blog/watching-a-bookstore-die/feed/ 1 http://www.bondgrp.com/blog/mobile-phones-amazing-growth/ http://www.bondgrp.com/blog/mobile-phones-amazing-growth/#comments Tue, 12 Jul 2011 17:43:38 +0000 Joe Bond http://www.bondgrp.com/?p=1516 While doing some research on mobiles recently, we came across some stats that caught our attention… Sources: Global Mobile Statistics 2011 http://mobithinking.com/mobile-marketing-tools/latest-mobile-stats Google Mobile Ads http://www.youtube.com/user/GoogleMobileAds#p/c/F00C4B5531E19CD6/0/CjUcq_E4I-s Sybase: http://www.sybase.com/resources/blogs http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aUQLIPdtg8]]> http://www.bondgrp.com/blog/mobile-phones-amazing-growth/feed/ 0 http://www.bondgrp.com/blog/why-cant-design-be-beautiful/ http://www.bondgrp.com/blog/why-cant-design-be-beautiful/#comments Thu, 19 May 2011 17:05:33 +0000 Topher McCulloch http://www.bondgrp.com/?p=1465 Before Steve Jobs was a glint in his father’s eye, Olivetti was elevating the design aesthetics of the business machine world through product design and advertising rooted in the Bauhaus and vetted in Italy. Olivetti placed great importance on its …]]> http://www.bondgrp.com/blog/why-cant-design-be-beautiful/feed/ 0 http://www.bondgrp.com/blog/5-things-robert-plant-can-teach-a-brand/ http://www.bondgrp.com/blog/5-things-robert-plant-can-teach-a-brand/#comments Thu, 14 Apr 2011 03:24:23 +0000 Joe Bond http://www.bondgrp.com/?p=1440 I just saw Robert Plant and Band of Joy in Chicago, and it’s amazing how he re-invents himself year after year. Each direction he takes, tends to reveal a little bit more depth and a little bit more character, and …]]> http://www.bondgrp.com/blog/5-things-robert-plant-can-teach-a-brand/feed/ 0 http://www.bondgrp.com/blog/size-matters-as-does-space-proportion-light-color-and-ultimately-art/ http://www.bondgrp.com/blog/size-matters-as-does-space-proportion-light-color-and-ultimately-art/#comments Fri, 08 Apr 2011 20:17:40 +0000 Joe Bond http://www.bondgrp.com/?p=1415 “I don’t like all this wasted space..” That’s the comment I heard from a gallery visitor, walking along the second floor of the contemporary wing of the Chicago Art Institute. Comments like that make my skin crawl. Seriously. I froze …]]> http://www.bondgrp.com/blog/size-matters-as-does-space-proportion-light-color-and-ultimately-art/feed/ 1 http://www.bondgrp.com/blog/ipad-video-vs-others/ http://www.bondgrp.com/blog/ipad-video-vs-others/#comments Tue, 29 Mar 2011 19:47:32 +0000 Joe Bond http://www.bondgrp.com/?p=1356 All I wanted to do was watch competitive tablet videos. After watching Apple’s presentation on the iPad 2, I looked for videos by the other tablets, trying to get a sense of their brand personality, messaging and understand why I …]]> http://www.bondgrp.com/blog/ipad-video-vs-others/feed/ 0 http://www.bondgrp.com/portfolio/mbs-dev/ http://www.bondgrp.com/portfolio/mbs-dev/#comments Thu, 10 Mar 2011 22:49:07 +0000 bond group http://www.bondgrp.com/?p=1307 After being acquired by a well-known Fortune 500 company, MBS DEV, a leading provider of customized ERP and eCommerce solutions, deserved heightened awareness of their world-class offering. By refreshing their brand – from logo to tagline to a more user-friendly …]]> http://www.bondgrp.com/portfolio/mbs-dev/feed/ 0 http://www.bondgrp.com/blog/kiss-part-2/ http://www.bondgrp.com/blog/kiss-part-2/#comments Thu, 03 Mar 2011 17:02:00 +0000 Mary Olivieri http://www.bondgrp.com/?p=1262 How simple is too simple? Must we suffer the unintelligibly abbreviated world of texting? Are we risking a violent takeover of actual words? Texting has single-handedly reduced us to an acronym for every saying. For teenaged girls that might be …]]> http://www.bondgrp.com/blog/kiss-part-2/feed/ 0 http://www.bondgrp.com/blog/kiss-part-1/ http://www.bondgrp.com/blog/kiss-part-1/#comments Fri, 25 Feb 2011 22:01:00 +0000 Mary Olivieri http://www.bondgrp.com/?p=1260 Read this: We are a strategic company that leverages our thought-leadership to provide integrated solutions that deliver wins for our customers, as well as everyone they serve in the marketplace. Now read this: We use our heads. You get smart …]]> http://www.bondgrp.com/blog/kiss-part-1/feed/ 0