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hi! i’m Tom, founder and creative director of POKE.  i live in CT, work in NYC, munch on tasty digital cookies, collect lunchboxes, take lots of photos and buy lots of t-shirts.  mmm…cookies. i’m passionate about creating a safe internet for kids, cookies, really great Italian cooking, all kinds of dogs, digital photography and the power of technology and how it affects our daily lives. i’d love to tell you i read a lot - but i just don’t. so there. Psychotic.

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sound identities. consumer friend or foe?

Let’s debate!

Hey gang - quick one here I’d love to start a conversation on.

Sight sound and motion is the heart and soul of all push communication. It also makes all kinds of valuable interactions infintly more valuable, yes? So what about the science of getting you to remember things? Personally - I’d rather have the consumer remember my brand because it has meaning FIRST. I can’t help but wonder if this is just snake oil in disguise.

Ok. Sure. Knowing that -

What are your thoughts about Aural ID’s or (sound identities)? Here is an interesting example I discovered on SML, (thanks Ming!) where a Music and the Moving Image class at the Université de Montréal created an exploration of the dna of the Intel sound identity.

From the video info:

What does music communicate in this 1990s ad? What does the famous 4-note Intel Inside jingle mean and how does it work?

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Reader Comments (2)

1. My name is See-ming. There is a strategic casing reason for lower-casing the M in my initials for the American audience.

2. You might also be interested in my Sound ID play list: http://youtube.com/view_play_list?p=43F100CE07202729

3. There is a guy called John Groves who did a lot of video on sound ID: http://brand-sounds.com

4. I'm looking into this right now so you might see more at http://del.icio.us/seeminglee/sound+identity

Cheers,
See-ming
November 8, 2007 | Unregistered CommenterSee-ming Lee
Thanks SML! Sorry for the mix-up. So how do you like to be addressed? See-ming?

Cheers!

/ t
November 10, 2007 | Unregistered CommenterTom

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