Thoughts. 

Recalibrating Shame

Aaron Powers

The marketing industry spent a century commercializing shame within a technological and social context that followed relatively stagnant rules. But the shame commercialization play has run headlong into 21st-century transparency and connectedness. How do brands evolve? What would it look like to adopt a shame-less marketing playbook?

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Issue

Title

Author

Artist

  1. 21

    Getting Comfortable With the Real You

    Joanne Bolens

    Katie Cowden

    Jenny Cavaioli

    Nora Mestrich

  2. 20

    Happy Thanksgiving!

    Jess Vander

    Xahra Gilbert

    Kennedy Whittington-Cooper

    Chris Konya

    Jess Vander

  3. 19

    Magic in the Slow Simmer

    Cristina Pansolini

    Katie Driscoll

    Camille Drucker

    Nora Mestrich

  4. 18

    An Essential for Reopening Spaces

    Jillian Rosen

    Fabian Castro

    Cole Nielsen

    Nora Mestrich

  5. 17¾

    The Repair Mindset

    Joey Camire

    Nora Mestrich

  6. 17

    Democratic Design Challenges

    Eliza Hadjis

    Sherzad Rahmatian

    Hannah Jegart

    Nora Mestrich

  7. 16

    Making Use of “All This ‘Free’ Time”

    Zach Visotsky

    Merideth Bogard

    Gretchen Devero

    Katie Sadow

  8. 15

    The Woo-Woo of Spiritual Consultation

    Steven Ebert

    Jess Vander

    Aaron Powers

    Katie Sadow

  9. 14

    A Problematic Obsession With the Old Normal

    Ben Cheney

    Osei Kwakye

    Makena Drutman

    Nora Mestrich

  10. 13

    An Unlikely Opportunity for Role Play

    Trevor Larry

    Jillian Rosen

    Katie Driscoll

    Katie Sadow

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