Author: Leslie Kraemer

Swedish Fish Are Only The Beginning

Cola snakes, lemon gummy hearts, strange chalky hard candies tasting mainly of salt, bi-color gummies that seem to claim medicinal properties, yogurt-covered candies, squishy fruit gumdrops with strange menthol undertastes.  Recently a couple of members…

Check Out The New Doritos Global Packaging Design

When consumers can connect instantly across international borders on social media, does it make sense, from a shopper marketing standpoint, for brands to keep separate identities in different countries? Doritos doesn’t think so, which is…

Using Ãœber-Thin Models May Be Hurting Your Brand

  Forget the size zero supermodels – bigger girls can mean bigger profits say researchers. A new study from Warwick Business School has found that when consumers are blatantly exposed to idealised images of thin, beautiful…

A Beautiful Daily Design Exercise

As the creative director of our Charlotte-based shopper marketing agency, I’m always looking for online sources of inspiration, and here’s a good one. Tilman Zitzmann is graphic designer in Germany who took a year off…