Taking Sides- Coca-Cola VS Pepsi

Also Americans love ugly graphic design.

There is a change happening, though. Tastes change, zeitgeists shift, especially in design. Nothing looked like this:

http://www.langleycreations.com/andrew/kick-ass-stuff/codered/images/codered_logo.gif

in the 60s. Things were still ugly some of the time, but streamlined and simple were v much marketable and in fashion.

That's not bad -- it has a terrible color scheme and it looks alarming like it might be able to cut you or something. Extra points for shitty gradient effect. I say it's a winner.

Sorry Roxy I am in a bitter mood. Luv ya!

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you don't sound bitter you just sound blind

http://antemeridiem.files.wordpress.com/2007/05/windowslivewriterspiderman3-f706spiderman342.jpg

This is what Pepsi should go for.

also, you being rong is just you being rong, it does not hurt my tender feelings so stop apologizing

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Sort of reminds me of this...
http://www.allnations.ac.uk/upload/OUlogo230.jpg

It'll probably look better IRL. Also, I think that the clean design is simply a way of having more can-side real estate to clutter up with "TXT THS NMBR get ringtones/iTunes/blahblahblah"

I think it's very nice looking. But who drinks Pepsi -- regular Pepsi, anyway -- at this point? Not people who like sleekness and slimness.

Seattle bus tunnel atations (underground) are FULL of new Pepsi logo banners, enormous on bright not-quite-primary-colored backgrounds, as the "O" in phrases like "OH WOW" etc. So nice, clean, simple, graphic, soothing - the best advertisements ever. Like nice public art, but with Pepsi logos. Feels like being in a museum display based on minimalist Hong Kong.

"atations" = stations

the world will end in a cola war, hurting

we didn't start the fire...

new font is old font, more or lessly

http://www.plastic-society.com/shop/images/products/diet%20pepsi-cream.jpg

http://www.plastic-society.com/shop/images/products/diet%20pepsi-cream.jpg

maybe I just fear change

and hope!

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we've gotten this far w/o mentioning pepsi's demographic orientation?

People with no taste buds?

fags apparently

http://www.amazon.com/Real-Pepsi-Challenge-Inspirational-Breaking/dp/0743265718

well don't that just BEAT ALL

::puts hands on hips::

Oh the "Negro market"

http://www.pepsico.com/Purpose/Diversity-and-Inclusion/Timeline-of-Diversity.aspx

Diversity isn't just the right thing to do. It's the right thing to do for our business.

"doing diversity"

http://www.slate.com/id/2198198/

establishment Coke

otm, now we get somewhere

http://www.refresheverything.com/

I would say that the average American Pepsi consumer has rolled with the punches so far and will probably not do anything but keep drinking Pepsi as normal.

Pepsi design is just about the art, then? That's kind of interesting.

i prefer the taste of coca-cola, but do not drink soda

Ok, I guess "manly" can still describe totally gay things.

― roxymuzak, Friday, January 9, 2009 10:53 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

This reminds me of 300 doing way better business than The Spirit because the guys who loved 300 think The Spirit is too gay, despite the fact that 300 is way gayer. I'm not sure what that has to do with anything though.

Pepsi design is just about the art, then? That's kind of interesting.

― Sundar, Friday, January 9, 2009 7:58 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

That's not exactly what I'm saying, but I do think it would take a pretty O_O design change to change much at this point in Pepsi's trajectory as a company. I think the design is not only inoffensive enough to not put people off, but is actually appealing to prevailing aesthetic tastes. Things can't look XTREME!!!!MONSTERMEGABEASTSODAhereisagradienteffectLOL forever.

This reminds me of 300 doing way better business than The Spirit because the guys who loved 300 think The Spirit is too gay, despite the fact that 300 is way gayer. I'm not sure what that has to do with anything though.

― caek, Friday, January 9, 2009 8:00 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark

Which is funny, because iirc both have logos in the same shite font

I'm not a shill, but wow does Coca-Cola have an attractive site!! I like Coke better, although I'm not a cola drinker.

I notice Coca-Cola is still paying for a 24-year old marketing blunder, having to slap the word "classic" on all their labels.

i like the 'minimalised' styling of the new cans. i don't like the altering of the wavy line tho - apparently it's so it represents a smile better (with a thin smile for diet and a bigger open-mouthed smile for the MAX), doesn't work for me.

http://www.authorsden.com/NewsImage/8547.gif

Coke > Pepsi
but
Diet Pepsi > Diet Coke
but
Mexican Coke [cane sugar] > American Coke [High Fructose Corn Syrup]

but
Diet Pepsi > Coke
and yet
Brain without tumors > Aspartame
so
Tea or Coffee > Soda

we were at my mother in laws for an xmas lunch and i asked for a coke and my brother in law pulled out a mexican coke from the fridge. such a golden moment. suprise mexican coke. it felt like christmas or something.

but
Diet Pepsi > Coke
and yet
Brain without tumors > Aspartame

not saying that shit's good for you, but:

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/265559_soda05.html

http://www.underconsideration.com/brandnew/archives/pepsi_new_bottles.php

lmao the bottle look like a dick

coke.

it kind of pisses me off when ppl go "i never drink soda, ugh, the idea of filling my body with something so awful" when you know like 80% of those people can't go a day without coffee.

even worse is when smokers pull that shit

http://www.suckatlife.com/images/pepsiLogoBlowatlife.jpg

I just bought a Diet Pepsi because of the new design. Thought you should know.

The design is actually quite a coup on Pepsi's part. I've bought a few because my eye was drawn to the bottle or can even before I even knew it was Pepsi.