**Project 365 Edition: Freshman Year in College. Starting 8/20/2011**

This blog was originally a blog devoted to a great high school class of mine, but I've decided to transform it into a Project 365 blog (a photo blog where you post a picture everyday for a year). I fell in love with the layout of crayons and cuteness (and wasn't savvy enough to redo it) that I'm just staying here! My teachers may very well still get notifications when I post, but whatever. If so, hi Bolos and O'Connor! :P Feel free to un-link yourself if you get bored/annoyed of me...

I'm not sure how keeping up with the daily posts will work for me (especially seeing my track record of weekly posts in that class) but I thought it would be a neat idea to at least get a feeling of the first year of college, of freshman year. Making new friends, new habits, and living a new life. Also apparently being corny as hell. Maybe this new life can include actually posting each day. Probably not. Let's cross our fingers for me?


Sunday, January 10, 2010

Viscious Verizon

Do you remember the old Verizon commercials? "Can you hear me now?" Does it ring a bell now? Do you remember old AT&T commercials? With the iPhone indistry taking over Veirzon is fighting back. And it's fighting back hard, yet very cleverly.

Recently on TV there has been a very visual war between Verizon and AT&T. Verizon showed AT&T as having a very uncovered map of coverage, only to be sued by AT&T because of misrepresenting their "3G coverage". So Verizon just stuck the words "3G coverage" on the map, and continued on. AT&T created their own map, and using the actor Luke Wilson, threw postcards over visually almost all of the nation showing their "coverage", being sneaky of course. But then Verizon came out with something I find very clever, "There's a map for that". Using Apple's words of "There's an app for that", they created a commerical to HURT the iPhone, with the same ring to the phrase meant to HELP the iPhone.

I do personally have an iPhone, but I have nothing against Verizon, being a customer there myself before switching to AT&T to be with the rest of my family. Watching Verizon's commercials I have to give them credit. But I also have to cringe at the immense hate flowing through them. It's a lot of effort put into a commercial, and it reminds me of the Geico commercials. They are genius. Simple, but fun. But yet, it makes me sad, does anyone know anyone you actually has Geico? I hope so.

There's a map for that! --> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZPjJI0K7Bk 

I just looked back at the two logos and realized something: how different they are. AT&T has a sphere, rounded shapes and text, and blue and white logo. While Verizon has a check mark, straight lined shapes and text, and a red and black logo. Strickingly different. What do you make of that?
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  1. Caroline CJanuary 10, 2010 at 9:14 PM

    I might be biased because I have an iPhone, but I really don't like the new Verizon commercial. I actually haven't ever liked their commercials. I've always thought AT&T have had clever ads, like the touching "lost dog" commercial. These nice friendly commercials appeal to me much more than the Verizon "dead zone" commercials. I think this has something to do with the logos? Maybe not, but you've got a good eye Sam!

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  2. DParkJanuary 10, 2010 at 9:22 PM

    I think that the companies made such different logos as a marketing technique. If they had similar logos, customers might disregard them both because the customer might think that the companies offer similar services and prices. Now that I think about it, many other corporation logos differ from others, including food chains, shoe chains, and athletic corporations.

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