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...BenQ's Lee, 52, is one of the few in Taiwan taking on the industry's heavyweights. An easy-going engineer, Lee began using the BenQ brand in 2001 when his organization was spun off from Acer, Taiwan's well-known computer company. The BenQ logo can now be found on MP3 players, LCD TVs and monitors, notebooks and mobile phones. An 80-person design team, led by a former Porsche designer, has created trendy gadgets aimed at Asia's youth, such as a coin-sized MP3 player that can be worn as a pendant and sleek laptops called Joybooks...
...first such licensed product was probably the Mickey Mouse watch in 1933. Retailers now annually sell more than $40 billion worth of these goods, ranging from Dynasty perfume to Mr T guitars. The popularity of corporate logos may have begun with people who proudly sported the brand names of machinery they used, such as farmers who wore International Harvester caps or truck drivers with Peterbilt belt buckles. Anheuser-Busch during the 1970s began to put its Budweiser logo on such souvenirs as dart boards and Frisbees...
...late '70s the Eighth Street players had codified an elaborate system of responses to the screen dialogue and action. Tonight, as on every weekend night, they perform their lines with a professional precision the latest cast of A Chorus Line would be hard put to match. As the Fox logo fades, the crowd recites the utterly inappropriate prologue to Star Wars: "A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away." Poor normal Brad is greeted with the same scatological taunt every time his name is mentioned; poor virginal Janet is "Slut!" Brad cannot slap a desk, or Frank snap...
Personal computers use floppy disks. FACPACs, a line of disk storage boxes devised by Worrell Design of Minneapolis, are handsome, simple and effective. The lever that fans out and displays ten or twelve disks inside is incorporated into the recessed logo...
...names. The tab includes consulting fees to Anspach Grossman Portugal, a New York City concern that, with the help of a computer, came up with 300 possible new designations. The International Harvester name, though, will not completely vanish. Case now owns it, along with the red-and-black IH logo, and is using both in advertising campaigns. AGRICULTURE Showdown at Guacamole Gulch...