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<\/span>If you couldn’t read “Brooklyn Philharmonic music director Michael Christie” on both the site homepage and the e-blast, would you know they were marketing materials from the same organization? No you would not, because the aesthetic is completely different. <\/p>\nI seem to remember a Brooklyn Philharmonic poster campaign from maybe a year ago that was hot pink and had Michael Christie’s press photo all Andy Warholed-out. I thought, yes, good, use pink and evoke Warhol: that’s how to get the kiddies to the symphony in the 21st century. <\/p>\n
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Can someone please explain to me why organizations that actually have awesome programming like the Brooklyn Philharmonic still manage to make themselves look completely lame? Don’t you knock-out Rosewood font\/drop-shadow me, Brooklyn. Also, what is that item in the top right corner – a speaker? Why?? Take that nonsense out and increase the size of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-108","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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<\/span>Don’t you knock-out Rosewood font\/drop-shadow me, Brooklyn. Also, what is that item in the top right corner – a speaker? Why?? Take that nonsense out and increase the size of the artist photos so we can see who we’re dealing with. And what is this “BP Presents”? Is that a branded thing, a new series, or just something someone thought would look good on an e-blast? <\/p>\n