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...logo for the Bloomington Early Music Festival at Indiana University features J.S. Bach in a plaid shirt standing in a cornfield next to a signpost listing the distances to Tucson, Ariz.; Leipzig, Germany; and Bloomington. The 14 concerts of medieval, Renaissance, baroque and classical music include works performed by adults on period instruments as well as a recital by elementary school students making a "joyful noyse" on recorders. Such whimsy has made a convert of Mia Dalglish, 16, a student at Bloomington High School South. "Early music can be stiff and boring--or the most beautiful music in the world...
...foreshadow death throughout the magazine. The articles and interviews, which are all exaggeratingly concise and dramatic, seem to have a similar effect. What is most startling about the exhibition, however, is not the grotesque pictures or the descriptive stories; but the cartoon-like symbols Gimonprez employs. A disturbing logo that looks like a hybrid between Mickey Mouse, an alien and the infamous Napster logo is dispersed throughout the exhibition...
...drop out of the deal following Gazprom's boardroom takeover that forced more than 300 staffers to walk out in protest. Newsweek severed ties with the freshly purged Itogi - which the American magazine had helped publish since 1996 - and asked the reconstituted periodical to stop using the Newsweek logo. Western governments scrambled to find creative ways of gently expressing their unqualified outrage. The European Union's envoy to Moscow murmured that the issue of press freedom might cloud next month's E.U.-Russia summit...
...messages. The Indians' Chief Wahoo is, at best, a poor excuse for a mascot. The Atlanta Braves-who have distanced themselves from controversial closer John Rocker-have been forced to tone down their infamous "Tomahawk Chop" in recent years. There is a difference between hockey's Chicago Blackhawks-whose logo and "Indian" identity are comparably subtle-and the clownish appearance of Chief Wahoo. Of course, how much the difference matters is debatable...
...Vehicle last year opened an office in the Netherlands. And Megaposter, the German company that draped the Brandenburg Gate in advertising, recently began operations in seven other countries as part of a pan-European push. Markets are emerging in Eastern Europe as well. Hungarian mobile operator Pannon wrapped its logo around commuter trains and taxis - a classic ambient approach in Western markets but a first in Hungary...