Message in a Bottle

self-concept. It is implanted into our consciousness where we all keep on developing thoughts and feelings of ourselves. Whenever we confront a product, apart from its functionality, appearance and quality, a deeper message or a sign was usually sent out from the designer to the users. When these messages or signs were used repeatedly as time goes on, they will affect our self-concept and integrate with the society as one. That is when gender stereotypes start to form its root and breed slowly,…

He is constantly communicating and working with people in the corporate world whom do not always understand how a designer works. Butler therefore uses simple language to ensure that his message is being communicated in a clear and concise manner, this allowing him to be understood throughout the different sectors of the business. (Jessie Scanlon 2008) Butler’s strategy ensures that the simplicity is not lost and that fundamental aspects…

Communication in advertising transpires through decoding and encoding levels of messages from the sender to the receiver via a particular medium. Advertisers use on-linguistic and linguistic cues designed to communicate a desired message towards a targeted audience in order to achieve their ultimate goal of selling their product. This essay examines the Katy Perry ‘Killer Queen’ perfume advertisement with a semiotic analysis approach. Furthermore, it analyses the conglomeration of connotations,…

In the United States, Cigarette Smoking accounts for more than 480,000 deaths every year (Current Cigarette Smoking Among Adults in the United States). Secondhand smoke is the smoke produced when tobacco products are burned. Secondhand smoke is just as harmful, as tobacco smoke which contains about 70 different cancer causing chemicals. Every year, secondhand smoke causes about 34,000 deaths by heart disease and 7,300 deaths by lung cancer in non-smokers (Secondhand Smoke (SHS) Facts). In this…

pictorial advertisements messages. Philips and McQuarrie applied the same technique in 2004, which provides a typology of rhetoric figures that helps differentiate the pictorial strategies explored by creative directors. In addition, typologies that relay distinct types of visual rhetoric have been designed to portray the various forms of adverts…

your face, your body aching from pain from just coming off the practice field or from weight-lifting, and then there it is. All you see is the light blue drink with the bottle that is clearly recognizable in shape. You know what is without even looking at the label on the bottle. Every athlete knows that the bottle is a Gatorade bottle because of the shape and color of the product. But why is that? According to Gatorade.com, “it was developed in the summer of 1965 for the University of Florida…

According to “The Nat Yuen Collection of Chinese Antiquities” written by UQ Art Museum, a ceramic art piece has a “blue and white porcelain” (art museum).This extravagance piece of art sovereignty during the “Manchu Jiaqing emperor (1796–1820 CE), this bottle vase carries the six-character imperial seal mark on its base” (artmuseum). The “six-character imperial” are located only in the noble court household for people to go visit on a regularly for the…

of the Christ, no one is superior to the other and no one is inferior to the other. In connection to this, I am reminded of an incident that happened with me this past Sunday. On Sunday, during the second service, while I was sharing the communion message, I could not speak. My throat became dry and I coughed for some time until, some people from the music band handed me a water…

coughing, should I ask someone to step in and read my communion message? Also, would someone from the staff walk up to me and ask me if they could maybe read the communion message on my behalf? This experience led me to understand that not only band people were the “baptized” people like me, they were providing me with pastoral care. Evidently, they were not pastors, but they being the “church” were empathetic and living out the message of loving one’s neighbor. I find this connected to one of…

4. Knowing that you CANNOT change the package/label design, what particular message could Villa Maria use to promote the brand? Specify whether you would add this message on either the bottle or a sticker on the bottle or shelf talkers Taking the brand’s two main attributes, i.e., ‘Most Awarded Winery’ (Winery, 2017) and being a family-owned business where the brand realises the importance of values and quality over quantity, Villa Maria has successfully produced superior quality wines since…