Creative Naming Fights for Freedom from Censors
In our daily quest to create names that are strategically on-target AND available for trademark, our verbal branding team employs the full range of symbolism, metaphors and illusions. With that, we are always on the look-out for new and creative word and letter usages.
One fairly new naming trend uses letter strings to make a name that phonetically sounds like a word...think Motorola RAZR and KRZR. While we explore this type of naming strategy to help our clients pass the trademark process, some artists are using a similar strategy to foil censorship policies.
A Chinese "children's" song on YouTube tells the simple story of the "Grass Mud Horse" (picture a lama) that lives in "Ma Le Desert" and battles the "river crab" to protect its grass. If you think thatRead more
