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If you have any further insight into the brand, which may help us with future manifestations, please leave your comment below. And if you know anyone who should be made to jump through these kind of brand hoops, send them an email and invite them to take a look.
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You have brought joy to the world. I think we’re all really scared of leaving a comment in case we don’t get any presents…but if there’s a better brand brief anywhere just smother it with brandy butter and I’ll eat it.
Ho Ho Ho!!!! In reciprocation, I wish ‘The Santa Brand’ [and everyone at Quiet Room] a spirit-filled Christmas and an intoxicating Newy Year
You made my day!
Ho ho ho
Math
I love this work!
Probably even funnier when you work on brand books like this for real clients!
Congratulations, I actually lol at this
Happy Christmas
This is definitely the best set of brand guidelines I have ever seen!
Jolly jollificatory.
Yrs,
the rich Mr Fat-Ass
Funny and painfully accurate representation of the total bollocks that branding is. The only thing is, er, aren’t you a branding agency? Or are you just turkeys voting for Christmas?
Ha Ha Ha. Ho Ho Ho. Lots of larfs on this in our agency in oz!!
Brilliant – that is all.
Excellent, really enjoyed it!
This is the sort of idea that many might have, but few could pull off well. You’ve pulled it off brilliantly, with some absolutely inspired touches. ‘Too deep / Too crisp / Even’ for example, and the Venn diagrams are superb. Many congratulations. Santastic.
Very very funny. I love the curve of credulity.
Beautifully done
Pure genius!!! Made me cry with laughter.
congratulations, this is absolutely brilliant, Merry Xmas
Beautifully done.
Brilliant brand guidelines – will look out for an opportunity to recommed you…
Brilliant.
Does *Santa* have a website where I can submit a present request?
I so wish this was available in actual brand book form. It would make a brilliant stocking stuffer for many of my communicator pals! (And only a few of them, blissfully, slip into speaking the language of the branding they’re involved with …)
Thank you, whoever made this. Absolutely sarcastic and hilarious.
This made my morning. I’ve reread this 3 times now and I’m still chuckling. Brilliant.
Hilarious, thanks so much for this!
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Amazing! well done and happy christmas
If Santa was a holiday it would be Easter. F@cking brilliant.
Love it!!!!! Great work. Santa, God, Socialism graph. Thats me. Not old to enough to get to the God increase yet but i’lll take your word for it.
TA!
You made my day!
Sniff…
You had me in stitches. At work, no less.
I *never* laugh at work.
Any openings at your place?
Genius. Much hilarity. Thank you.
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An excellent work of creativity, humour, and branding. Richard
Indiscribably brilliant! I’ve forgotten (as my clients have) the number of brand guidelines I’ve pulled together over the years but can honestly say none were as well concieved (or as funny) as these. Top work!
Brilliant!
Merry Christmas
Mark Gallagher
Brand Expressionist®
Blackcoffee®
Joy to the world wide web! Your Santa brand guidelines are awesome!
Bravo. The small print/side notes are hilarious.
He he! Still cracking up over the *Santa* brand book. Glad you lot are on the other side of the world or you might be competition to my branding agency here in New Zealand.
nice!
Thank you. I’m sitting in NYC enjoying some lovely British humor. Esp. love that Brian Blessed made it to Santa’s ‘space’.
Happy Holidays!
Helen
Awesome work – thank you for sharing. Made me laugh so much!
Brilliant. Thank you for making us all laugh our heads off for the last half an hour.
Brilliant – though frankly I would have put Anne Widdecombe much further to the right on the beardiness scale.
Wow. Kudos on not only a job well done, but for reminding us communications folk how much fun our jobs could–and should–be!
Absolutely genius!
Superlative.
I am woried that no mention was made of a certasin Spanish bank trying to infiltrate the brand by using giant lego and Lewis Hamiltion.
And in these equality times why no mention of his gay brother, Santa Fé?
Excellent viral marketing…I’ve now found your agency! Brilliant execution! Particularly like the ‘who’s occupying Santa’s space?’ diagram featuring Ann Widdecombe!
I haven’t been able to stop talking about the Santa Brand Book since I got it yesterday. Pure genious! Love, Love, Love it!
Fantastic. My favourite was the page of mandatory venn diagrams. LOL! Merry Christmas
Nice. Shouldn’t that be ‘Santa SANS Serif’ though?
Yeah, I know . . bah humbug etc.
I love it – insightful, inspired, and plain hilarious. Please animate it and load it up to youtube as a slide show. I’d love to email a video link to all my contacts!
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Absolutely brilliant! Bravo!
Truly brilliant, guys – well done indeed!
I note that five of the profile photos on your website show clear evidence of beard growth. Now that really IS living the brand! I hope that your clients at santaclaus inc appreciate your commitment….
Genius
Genius. And also depressingly familiar. Merry Christmas!
Made me laugh so much that a little bit of tea came out my nose.
(Just to be clear, I was drinking tea at the time.)
Good work Cratchit. Take Saturday off.
hohoho, grat job! ironic but kind of truth
Is it possible to buy this as a book/magazine? It’s a work of pure genius!
Hagrid – Entering our reputational space!
Love it!
made me laugh out loud. Make sure you enter it in D&AD!
Just to point out a mistake – “atnas” is definitely not a chimney in Lithuanian. Chimney is called “kaminas”. “Atnas” doesn’t mean anything in Lithuanian. Otherwise, it was very funny and inspiring
Rock on!
Any time anyone tells me they need a brand book, all I’ll have to do is pull this out… Argument finished.
Genius! Here is the perfect CEO interview to go with it:
http://worldradio.ch/wrs/shows/mix/work-father-christmas.shtml?17453
Awesome, love it.
so good, so very good. The pretence & conciet are so familiar, painfully funny
Congrats and a very merry New Year, thanks for this excellently done work. The curves summed up the human condition, with god and socialism crossing at ethical crisis and then again at mid-life crisis. Who needs soul-wrenching novels when all so neatly summarized? Wish you lots more fun in 2011, which starts with the snakiness of politicsand austerithy, rolls its way through a well-rounded royal wedding O and ends with only 2 stumps left standing for the Aussie cricket team again.
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