Pleasure and Pain

Improving the human experience one day at a time

Pleasure and Pain: photos by Whitney G. Hess

Entries Tagged as 'Branding'

My Happy Cog Avatar Has Arrived

February 11th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Branding, Pleasure

I’ve been consulting for Happy Cog for a year and a half, but when this arrived in my inbox yesterday, I became a true Happy Cogger.

Many thanks to Kevin Cornell for creating it. Everyone at Happy Cog has one of these cuties, and now I do, too.
So what do you think…does it look like me?
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Whit Hour – Week 3

August 17th, 2009 · No Comments · Whit Hour

Thank you so much to the 20 or so folks who showed up for the third week of Whit Hour — my weekly one-hour video chat to answer any and all of your questions about user experience, consulting, and whatever else you throw at me.
Sorry for the last-minute day change. I was stuck in [...]

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Photo of the day: Time To Buy Cut-Rite

July 8th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Design, Marketing, Photography, Pleasure

I was baking at my parents’ apartment recently and pulled out their wax paper to line a cookie sheet. When I tore some off, I noticed a message pierced into the paper that read “TIME TO BUY CUT-RITE.” They use a different brand than I do so I had never seen this before. The paper [...]

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Photo of the day: Elevator in Use By Peabody Ducks

May 15th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Branding, Photography

Talk about being on brand. The Peabody Hotel never misses a beat when it comes to their world-renowned ducks.
This is the sign they put in front of the center elevator just before the March of the Ducks. It’s so freakin’ cute and something you’d never see anywhere else that I just had to share.
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A blogger’s worst nightmare

May 11th, 2009 · 6 Comments · Blogging, Branding, Pain

When you hit Save Draft and you get this message:

WordPress Failure Notice: Your attempt to edit this post has failed. Please try again.
Luckily for me, when I hit the Back button I discovered that WordPress had auto-saved the draft and none of my edits were lost.
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