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Originally published to coincide with a major V&A exhibition, Brand.New takes a challenging look at contemporary consumer culture and the proliferation of brand identities which affect all our daily lives in the 21st-century. Ranging from fashion, design to the media, Brand.New sets out some provocative and entertaining debates about brands, retail, design and consumption habits around the world. Key sections look at the economics and business of branding; personal and social identities in a global, commodified world; the shopping experience from mall to website and the ethical and social questions for both brand and consumer. Critics, historians, anthropologists, sociologists and designers as well as voices from the business world, offer a range of opinions on topics as diverse as shopping in China, fakes and counterfeiting, and the branding of personality. The design of the book reflects the dynamic character of its subject with over 200 colour illustrations. Essential for students and observers of modern culture, this book will appeal to anyone who shops as well as those with an interest in advertising, product design and fashion.Now that all the world's a mall, virtual or otherwise, consumption as disease takes on a new meaning. Branding used to happen only to cattle and convicts; now it dictates values of personal identity, reliability, quality and service, as well as inspiring sinister conspiracy theories of brainwashing by the multinationals. So thank goodness for the superb catalogue of the V&A's "brand.new" exhibition, which examines in considerable--even consuming--depth the role of the "brand" in retail history, and its continuing relevance. Amid a scattered, glossy selection of the best of photographic advertisement, as well as emblematic historical and sociological images, are several longer essays on background, brand philosophy and labelling, a consideration of the impact of e-commerce through the "death of distance", and a broader history of the shopping centre. In fact, the book justifies the cover value alone for the fact that the world's first supermarket opened its doors in Memphis, Tennessee, in 1916, under the peerless (brand) name Piggly Wiggly. Ironically, its regressive, kitsch ring would most likely see it succeed today. There are also a clutch of two-page meditations on matters such as counterfeiting, the dubious notion of multinationals like McDonalds helping to reinforce local culture, second-hand goods and Japanese school-girl wares. Perhaps the most interesting section, though, is the final one, on "subvertising", the political backlash against global marketing, and the movement to champion environmental concerns. The McLibel Two in London, anti-capitalist demonstrations in Seattle, GM concerns, Death cigarettes and the Adbusters campaigns have seen people fighting back and expressing themselves through the law courts or the media, while the growing demand for organic goods and farmers' markets shows how shopping trends are becoming at least "light green", and more ethically informed. Whether one "does the shopping", "goes shopping" or just "shops around", this attractively expressed forum of ideas generally steers clear of pseudo-scientific semiotic jargon (excepting the occasional "brandscape" or "brand DNA"), and is lavishly produced to the V&A's customary high standards, something which bears out the credo of its subject-matter, and helps it metamorphose from product to "brand". --David Vincent
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