Code-X (8)

By: Joshua Glenn
May 23, 2014

IBM 2

Call this market category code: Spirograph Futurism.

juniper network

Definition: Friendly, accessible, cheerful patterns representing complex information/network. Big Data is fun! (Cf. Cute Cthulhu meme?)

fios

Notes on this code: Sci-Fi/Fantasy imagery avoiding a technological/masculine/dystopian vibe. Future world depicted as colorful, utopian, glowing with light — while present/reality is drab.

ibm

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