Tag Archives: Opinion

28 March 2012

Celebrating another REBRAND 100® win!

A distinction for Media Access Australia

Following up their successes in 2010 and 2011, Doppio has once again been recognised at the 2012 REBRAND 100® Global Awards with a distinction for their work on the Media Access Australia brand.

Doppio’s rebrand of Media Access Australia was a strategic response to a significant business shift, which required a clearly articulated purpose in order to attract further funding from a wider audience.

“MAA has evolved and taken

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13 January 2012

Looking beyond the social bandwagon

Most of us have heard, Google’s analytics evangelist, Avinash Kaushik’s quote: “Social media is like teen sex. Everyone wants to do it. No one actually knows how. When finally done, there is surprise it’s not better.”

Doppio recognises the role of purposeful planning when developing energetic and authentic communities through social platforms—and the impact these communities can have on building brand and busine

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14 February 2011

Have we met?

What happens when identity design crosses the line from ‘inspired by’ to ‘completely ripped off’

The blogosphere has been buzzing over the conspicuous and astonishing theft of Landor’s City of Melbourne mark for Shenzhen’s Fantasia MIC Plaza.

Popping up on Chinese design site AD110.com in mid Janurary, the two identities are shown side-by-side to properly showcase their similarities. And by similar – I mean they are entirely and perfectly identical.

It is unclear which side of the opinion fence AD110 fall

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25 November 2010

GAPgate: Lessons to be learnt

The beauty of retrospect

By now we’re all familiar with “GAPgate”: First, the unceremonious launch of a new logo for US clothing empire, GAP, followed with a quick but equally unceremonious retreat, and not before setting the GAP brand careering headlong into a potential public relations disaster.

So, with the beauty of retrospect, we can now ask ourselves what lessons can we derive from one of the biggest retail rebranding debacles in recent hist

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15 September 2011

Jury Duty

It’s that time of year again, where we gather together all our hard work from the past year for our submission for the REBRAND 100 awards.

Doppio has had a number of rebrand projects represented in the REBRAND 100 awards over the last few years, however this year we are more involved than ever with our very own MD, Melissa Bertolini, being selected as one of ten Jurors on the 2012 panel.

The 2012 REBRAND 100 jury is a mult

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9 May 2011

The rigours of qualitative research

We work hard, we play hard...

On Friday, while the sun was shining, the Doppio team headed out to get a feel for what makes a fantastic playground – all in the name of research, of course.

See below for our rigorous, analytical conclusions.

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