For me and my collaborators, the difference between conceptual art and branding is negligible. To wit, we’ve created a variety of brand concepts and released them into the wild. Some have blossomed into actual ventures like those below.

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We once joked that the North Boulevard part of Petaluma, CA, had all the earmarks of an up-and-coming arts district (warehouse-style lofts, a new wine bar) and thus the neighborhood should be named for a contraction of North and Boulevard — NoBo. What the new “NoBo” area lacked was a coffee house. So we made one. At least online.