Word: logo
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...case that the card companies are in fact one monopolistic presence; according to the suit, Visa and MasterCard crush competition by blacklisting banks who offer cards from other networks. That means any bank brave (or foolish) enough to send customers cards emblazoned with an American Express or Discover logo may find itself effectively frozen out of industry decision-making operations...
...Lesbian, Transgender and Supporters' Alliance (BGLTSA) proved the most damning issue. A box in the BGLTSA's resource center invited students to take buttons--but board members said they didn't expect Burton to take all of them, more than 100, and cover them over with the Driskell-Burton logo...
...which rave culture expresses itself is its party flyers. These handouts are to raves what graffiti art is to hip-hop and psychedelic posters were to the acid rock of the '70s. They give vision to rave's sounds. Sometimes--much like rappers' sampling old songs--they appropriate corporate logos with ironic visual twists. The MasterCard logo becomes "MasterRave," or Rice Krispies becomes "Rave Krisp E's." Other flyers employ 3-D images and wild metallic hues that draw inspiration from sci-fi films, anime, even the rounded, flower-power imagery of the Summer of Love...
...entertainment. MTV--an entertainment medium designed expressly to sell records--is another classic example. Every time a rapper mentions a brand of anything in a song, advertising slips into art. If you have a Harley-Davidson tattoo, you're there already. If you wear a T shirt with a logo on it, you're also there but with less pain. Eventually, every surface that can display a message will be appropriated for advertising...
Good news for purveyors of pint-size coats and ties: School uniforms are storming back onto public school curriculums. The latest evidence of this trend came Monday when the Philadelphia school board approved a plan requiring each of the school system's 217,000 students to ditch their logo tees and up-to-the-minute fashion statements in favor of school-mandated shirts, skirts and pants (to be decided by each principal). In doing so, the city became the largest school district in the nation to adopt such a policy, which educators believe helps focus kids' attentions away from their...