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All merchandise is commercial. Do your kids wear a Nike swoosh t shirt? Okay on an iPad? Love Lego? What the difference if it's a Microsoft football or new reli

by winphone1974 3y ago

All merchandise is commercial. Do your kids wear a Nike swoosh t shirt? Okay on an iPad? Love Lego? What the difference if it's a Microsoft football or new relic slingshot (all things I see from where I'm sitting)?

Moru 3y ago
Oh! Fun questionaire! Nike? No, iPad? No, Lego? No, Not sure what the other things are.
- mlrtime 3y ago
  So you hand make all your own kid toys and clothing, as well as all the other things babies and toddlers use?
  - albert180 3y ago
    There are many toys without a fat big logo of the Manufacturer on them.
bombcar 3y ago
I have a few Lego minifigures branded with a (since merged away) corporate logo. Branded Lego is probably the most durable chotchki you’re going to find.
- justinlloyd 3y ago
  Yep, LEGO endures. I've done entire branded boxes filled with a custom instruction booklet, such as "build this diorama of our video game studio" or "this is a character from our upcoming game" or "it's a LEGO GameBoy with our game on the screen." And it has to be LEGO. Anything else is considered cheap and reflects on your company.
  - bombcar 3y ago
    The top-tier of this, of course, is to have LEGO make a special set and color for you, like the Maersk promotion sets: https://brickipedia.fandom.com/wiki/Maersk https://brickipedia.fandom.com/wiki/Maersk (Now it's kind of boring because they sell them online, before those were exceptionally rare as they were basically only sold directly to Maersk.)
yorwba 3y ago
All merchandise is commercial, but not all commercial merchandise comes with conspicuous ads printed on.
wharvle 3y ago
1) It’s not as bad if the logo or name is at least the manufacturer of the object. There’s an argument to be made that it’s a form of standing behind your product: this is good enough that we don’t think you’ll come to think ill of us. 2) Some of us in fact do avoid wearing logos. Nicer (and not even that nice, necessarily) clothes, bags, shoes, et c. tend not to have them, or at least make them very small. Logos for something other than the company that made the item would be even worse. Large logos and legible clothing more generally signal things I’d prefer not to signal, so… I don’t. Freebies in that category get worn around the house or as a base layer.
- MonaroVXR 3y ago
  >Some of us in fact do avoid wearing logos. That's me
downWidOutaFite 3y ago
That's one of the reasons I don't buy Nike and I cover up Apple logos with stickers (which is easier ever since they stopped putting a damn backing light on their laptop logos). I'm not going to advertise for you for free.

Moru 3y ago

Oh! Fun questionaire! Nike? No, iPad? No, Lego? No, Not sure what the other things are.

mlrtime 3y ago
So you hand make all your own kid toys and clothing, as well as all the other things babies and toddlers use?
- albert180 3y ago
  There are many toys without a fat big logo of the Manufacturer on them.

bombcar 3y ago

I have a few Lego minifigures branded with a (since merged away) corporate logo. Branded Lego is probably the most durable chotchki you’re going to find.

justinlloyd 3y ago
Yep, LEGO endures. I've done entire branded boxes filled with a custom instruction booklet, such as "build this diorama of our video game studio" or "this is a character from our upcoming game" or "it's a LEGO GameBoy with our game on the screen." And it has to be LEGO. Anything else is considered cheap and reflects on your company.
- bombcar 3y ago
  The top-tier of this, of course, is to have LEGO make a special set and color for you, like the Maersk promotion sets: https://brickipedia.fandom.com/wiki/Maersk https://brickipedia.fandom.com/wiki/Maersk (Now it's kind of boring because they sell them online, before those were exceptionally rare as they were basically only sold directly to Maersk.)

yorwba 3y ago

All merchandise is commercial, but not all commercial merchandise comes with conspicuous ads printed on.

wharvle 3y ago

1) It’s not as bad if the logo or name is at least the manufacturer of the object. There’s an argument to be made that it’s a form of standing behind your product: this is good enough that we don’t think you’ll come to think ill of us. 2) Some of us in fact do avoid wearing logos. Nicer (and not even that nice, necessarily) clothes, bags, shoes, et c. tend not to have them, or at least make them very small. Logos for something other than the company that made the item would be even worse. Large logos and legible clothing more generally signal things I’d prefer not to signal, so… I don’t. Freebies in that category get worn around the house or as a base layer.

MonaroVXR 3y ago
>Some of us in fact do avoid wearing logos. That's me

downWidOutaFite 3y ago

That's one of the reasons I don't buy Nike and I cover up Apple logos with stickers (which is easier ever since they stopped putting a damn backing light on their laptop logos). I'm not going to advertise for you for free.