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The medium is the marketplace: Fictional-brand fandom and reverse product placement (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Solomons, G. (2017, November). The medium is the marketplace: Fictional-brand fandom and reverse product placement. Presented at 3rd International Conference on Semiotics and Visual Communication: Branded. The Semiotics of Branding in Culture and Context, Cyprus University of Technology, Lemesos, Cyprus

While product displacement, shop-dropping and murketing are all methods used to skewer or criticize our heavily branded world, fictional branding is often used in an effort to re-inforce the connection between the fan and the movie world created, dem... Read More about The medium is the marketplace: Fictional-brand fandom and reverse product placement.

'If at first you don't succeed: Affecting a change in the referral process of design education' (2014)
Presentation / Conference
Solomons, G., & Dowling, J. P. (2014, July). 'If at first you don't succeed: Affecting a change in the referral process of design education'. Presented at Typecon 2014: Trial & Error, Washington D.C., USA

There has been very little attention given to the importance of the referral stage in design education even though this is the stage at which students can learn the most from their mistakes in order to improve and progress. Acknowledging that stud... Read More about 'If at first you don't succeed: Affecting a change in the referral process of design education'.

SweetTalk 38 (2009)
Presentation / Conference
Dowling, J. P., Anderson, I., Mochnacz, M., Council, A., & Solomons, G. (2009, November). SweetTalk 38. Presented at Creative to Creative Lecture series, The Watershed, Bristol

Bristol design blog typenowhere.com join forces with CandyCollective to bring SweetTalk to Watershed. SweetTalk is a creative-to-creative live event, bringing together local creative talent with international luminaries in a relaxed, social environme... Read More about SweetTalk 38.