BrandBox: We Need to Talk About the Brand That is Donald

PRINTCast: The PRINT Podcast Studio is a curated collection of cutting-edge podcasts we love about design, creativity, branding, books, and further subjects afield. Soon, we’ll have a dedicated digital listening room. In the meantime, we present the latest episode of BrandBox, “a (playful and thoughtful) podcast on the strategies and effects of brands.”

Hosts Tom Guarriello and Mark Kingsley have been soliciting topic ideas from listeners, and Sem Devillart, who teaches with them at the School of Visual Arts' Masters in Branding program, had a suggestion: "Trump (Master of Branding)."

The hosts dive in, starting with an essential quandary: Should that "Master of Branding" title come with a question mark after it?

Here, the hosts break down all things Trump as his administration continues to break down in real time.

Show Notes

• Sem Devillart.

• Déformation Professionnelle.

• J.C. Can Save America.

• The Nobel Peace Prize for 2009.

• Barack Obama: The 2020 60 Minutes Interview.

• President Nixon Calls on the “Silent Majority.”

• Meet The Man Who Designed Trump's Vodka Bottle of “Envy and Status.”

• Trump University: A Look at an Enduring Education Scandal.

• The Trademark on Trump Steaks Was Canceled Two Years Ago, Records Show.

• Federico Finchelstein, A Brief History of Fascist Lies.

• Gottlob Frege.

• Five Red Apples.

• Jean François Lyotard.

• Metanarrative.

• Eschatology.

• Sigmund Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents.

• Isabel Wilkerson’s ‘Caste’ is an ‘Instant American Classic’ About our Abiding Sin.

• Hitler's Debt to America.

• Opportunism.

• How 'Sharknado' Casts Its C-Listers and Nearly Landed Trump as President.

• Paige C. Morgan on Elections and Databases.

• Marshall McLuhan’s Hot and Cool.

SVA Masters in Branding program // Music courtesy of Mikel Rouse // Dr. Tom Guarriello // Mark Kingsley