Better to get the market share when you can and worry later, when the brand becomes part of the popular vernacular and less distinctive in the process.
Although some prints suggest the influence of Romare Bearden, most have a look entirely their own, a distinctive mix of popular graphics, black vernacular art, performance art and the emotional weight of Goya's prints.
Banat Bulgarians speak a distinctive codified form of the Eastern Bulgarian vernacular with much lexical influence from the other languages of the Banat.
In awarding a National Heritage Fellowship to Mr. Robinson in 1989, the National Endowment for the Arts cited his distinctive style: "In performance, Robinson stresses the vernacular origins of tap grounded in community tradition and honed by generations of tap masters, many of whom, such as Honi Coles and the Nicholas Brothers, grew up in Philadelphia".
Evangelicals created an architectural vernacular that led to flexible and distinctive church buildings.
Now in its third generation, Kanner Architects is evolving a distinctive design style rooted in our rich local vernacular--a style that is thoroughly sensible yet a little crazy in the best Angeleno tradition.
August 18 , 1450Split January 6 , 1524Split Marko Marulić, (born August 18 , 1450 Split, Dalmatia [now in Croatia] died January 6 , 1524 Split) Croatian moral philosopher and poet whose vernacular verse marked the beginnings of a distinctive Croatian literature.
It's gutsy, distinctive stuff, but its apparently radical form is based on vernacular archetypes – the terrace, back-to-back and courtyard block – spliced and recut in an unsentimental way for the modern era.
His painted dreams, imaginary landscapes, mythical animals, romantic creatures, and classical figures in vivid distinctive hues became fixtures of storybooks and part of the vernacular.
