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🗓️ 8 April 2014
⏱️ 16 minutes
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0:00.0 | This is Blueprint. I'm Roman Mars. |
0:06.0 | This is Site Unseen. I'm Roman Mars. |
0:11.6 | This is an ear for design. I'm Roman Mars. |
0:17.9 | This is 99% invisible. I'm Roman Mars. |
0:23.1 | Now that's nice. |
0:25.6 | The name is important. |
0:26.8 | It's the first thing, the tip of the spear, with any product you use or buy or see. |
0:31.8 | And you're bombarded by thousands of names every day. |
0:35.4 | The name of this producer is Avery Trufflement. |
0:37.9 | And in the daily barrage of names, only the names that are most interesting, |
0:42.1 | most pleasant on the tone can survive in your memory. |
0:46.9 | If it's any kind of consumer product, like from PNG or Sony or yeah, |
0:53.6 | it's going to be a naming company that you might not know it, but probably. |
0:57.6 | And naming companies, as in companies that name things, are responsible for many of the proper |
1:03.4 | nouns that you remember. Naming is just this weird little area and there's business, right? |
1:09.6 | And then there's marketing and then there's branding and then there's naming and naming is so small. |
1:14.6 | They're so really, they're so few naming companies. There's like 20. |
1:18.7 | And Laurel founded one of them. My name is Laurel Sutton. I'm one of the co-founders of Catchword. |
1:23.5 | We're a naming firm here in the Bay Area. And Catchword comes from those guiding words |
1:27.9 | at the top of a dictionary page. Those are the Catchwords. Most people don't know it. It doesn't matter. |
1:32.9 | It just is what we do. So we're about words and we're about words that are catchy. |
1:38.5 | She and her team have worked on everything. A line of yogurts for Chibani, the Palm Pre, |
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