{"id":510,"date":"2010-07-23T19:29:08","date_gmt":"2010-07-23T08:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/?p=510"},"modified":"2010-07-23T19:29:08","modified_gmt":"2010-07-23T08:29:08","slug":"take-note","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/take-note\/","title":{"rendered":"Take note"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I occasionally drop in great marketing ideas here &#8211; normally that&#8217;s a particularly well executed TV spot &#8211; but on this occasion it&#8217;s a piece of packaging. It doesn&#8217;t take a great deal of explanation, mainly because it&#8217;s been everywhere in the last couple of days &#8211; and that&#8217;s rather the point.<\/p>\n<p>Panasonic have driven massive, free advertising and that elusive &#8216;buzz&#8217; around a pretty ordinary product through the simple application of packaging design. In this case there&#8217;s no clever narrative, no clever social media viral idea, just simple, effective packaging &#8211; of course the fall-out is that these photos have gone a little viral and created a buzz amongst the easily excited amongst us&#8230;. but the beautiful side-effect is that these will fly off the shelves when they&#8217;re stood next to \u00a0a plain ordinary pack of Sony buds. Genius.<\/p>\n<p>View the pics of the new <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">earphones<\/span> packaging below, or read about them via <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.2modern.com\/2010\/07\/note.html?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+2modernDesignTalk+%282Modern+Design+Talk%29&amp;utm_content=Google+Reader\">2modern Design Talk<\/a> (via <a href=\"http:\/\/lovelypackage.com\/panasonic-note\/\">Lovely Package<\/a>)\u00a0Designers are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.s-f.com\/\">Scholz &amp; Friends<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/6a00d834522c5069e2013485917c1c970c-pi.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-513\" title=\"Panasonic Note \" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/6a00d834522c5069e2013485917c1c970c-pi.jpg?resize=538%2C412\" alt=\"\" width=\"538\" height=\"412\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/6a00d834522c5069e2013485917ba3970c.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-512\" title=\"Panasonic Note \" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/6a00d834522c5069e2013485917ba3970c.jpg?resize=538%2C325\" alt=\"\" width=\"538\" height=\"325\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/6a00d834522c5069e20133f26c3969970b-500wi.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-511\" title=\"Panasonic Note \" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/6a00d834522c5069e20133f26c3969970b-500wi.jpg?resize=500%2C383\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"383\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I occasionally drop in great marketing ideas here &#8211; normally that&#8217;s a particularly well executed TV spot &#8211; but on this occasion it&#8217;s a piece of packaging. It doesn&#8217;t take a great deal of explanation, mainly because it&#8217;s been everywhere in the last couple of days &#8211; and that&#8217;s rather the point. Panasonic have driven &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/take-note\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Take note&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-ramblings"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}