Matt Soar, Concordia University

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The cultural lives of the logo: critical and creative explorations of trademarks and branding devices in a hypercommercial media environment
SSHRC · 2003 · Principal investigator
$90,071

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The cultural lives of the logo: critical and creative explorations of trademarks and branding devices in a hypercommercial media environment

Principal investigatorSSHRC2003Research/Creation Grants in Fine Arts

Principal investigators: Soar, Matthew A.

Keywords: media; culture; ideology; representation; visual culture; hypercommercialism; cultural production; graphic design; typography; logos; branding devices; trademarks; corporate identity; textual analysis; ethnography; media literacy; recontextualization

$90,071

From public funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998 with their latest competition results, the Canada Foundation for Innovation, Genome Canada, the Canadian Space Agency, Canada Research Chairs, the Fonds de recherche du Québec, Ontario research funding, Michael Smith Health Research BC, the Canadian Cancer Society, Heart & Stroke and Brain Canada.

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