(The local UPS driver has Perry's cell number programmed into his phone). Princeton has a contract with Nike to supply most of its athletic gear, which arrives blank — no logos, except for the ubiquitous swoosh — and is shipped out for customization by printing and embroidery companies.
Some people have long viewed the cuteness craze, exemplified in the "Hello Kitty" commercial logo — a blank-faced cartoon cat with a bow in her hair — and filtering into the work of art-stars like Takashi Murakami, as a symptom of cultural malaise, a stress reaction on the part of a nation living with chronic uncertainty.
Some are printed with the text of Mr. Prince's jokes, and many have the LV logo partly blanked out, recalling the "inherently corrosive" quality of his work, as Roberta Smith recently put it in The New York Times in her review of the artist's retrospective at the Guggenheim.
To stitch Polo logos onto blank shirts, counterfeiters might use a $250,000 computerized sewing machine that can embroider 20 shirts simultaneously.
Since expanding rapidly into a number of commercial and mixed-use spaces around the beachfront, with a particular concentration of leases on Market Street, the company has retreated from its open, incubator phase to face the public with the blank stare of its featureless logo.
From Quicken you click on the On-line Banking icon; up pops Union Bank's logo and a blank check.
Typically, the Google home page remains the blank, clean slate with the logo and search box that serves as millions of people's jumping off point to the web.
The company's website appears blank except the huge Regan Arts logo and a Kenneth Rexroth quote: "Against the ruin of the world, there is only one defense the creative act".
WHEN the 2009 season starts in February, there are likely to be more empty seats in the stands, fewer cars on the tracks, blank spots on cars where logos used to flash, and smaller crews in the pits.
Marketers held up the airline's name and logo, only to get blank stares and questions: "Do they speak English?
He saw acres of blank space that could splashed with logos.
