Word Mark BLUE IVY CARTER

Goods and Services IC 003. US 001 004 006 050 051 052. G & S: Fragrances, cosmetics, skin care products, namely, non-medicated skin care preparations, non-medicated skin care creams and lotions, namely, body cream, hand cream, skin lotion, body lotions, skin moisturizers, skin emollient, skin cleansing creams, skin cleansing lotions, all for adults and infants; hair care products, namely, non-medicated hair care preparations, non-medicated hair gel, shampoo, conditioner, hair mousse, hair oils, hair pomades, hair spray

IC 006. US 002 012 013 014 023 025 050. G & S: Metal key chains and metal key rings

IC 009. US 021 023 026 036 038. G & S: DVDs, CDs, and audio and visual sound recordings featuring musical performances; musical sound recordings; computer application software for mobile phones, portable media players, and handheld computers for use in downloading music, ring tones and video games; handheld and mobile digital electronic devices, namely, tablet PCs, cellular phones, laptops, portable media players, handheld computers; cases and covers for mobile phones and mobile digital electronic devices, namely, laptops, cell phones, radio pagers, mobile computers; downloadable web-based application software in the nature of a mobile application downloadable to handheld and mobile digital electronic devices for use in downloading music, ring tones and video games; decorative magnets, eyewear, eyeglass cases; computer bags; graduated glassware; hair accessories, namely, electric hair-curlers

IC 012. US 019 021 023 031 035 044. G & S: Baby carriages, baby strollers

IC 014. US 002 027 028 050. G & S: Key chains and key rings of precious metal; fine and costume jewelry, clocks and watches

IC 016. US 002 005 022 023 029 037 038 050. G & S: Books in the field of music, motion pictures, musical performers; photographs; posters; baby books; stickers; print materials, namely, art prints, color prints, concert programs, calendars, pens, post cards; gift bags; paper flags; trading cards; paper baby bibs

IC 018. US 001 002 003 022 041. G & S: Bags, namely, tote bags, beach bags, handbags, diaper bags, baby carriers worn on the body, pouch baby carriers, luggage; small leather goods, namely, leather cases, leather bags and wallets, leather purses, leather billfolds, leather key chains, leather key cases

IC 020. US 002 013 022 025 032 050. G & S: Plastic key chains and plastic key rings; small leather goods, namely, leather picture frames, leather key fobs, and leather key holders; plastic flags; vinyl banners, baby bouncers, baby changing mats, baby changing tables, high chairs for babies, playpens for babies

IC 021. US 002 013 023 029 030 033 040 050. G & S: Mugs; beverage glassware; plastic water bottles sold empty; hair accessories, namely, hair combs; baby bathtubs; drinking cups for babies

IC 024. US 042 050. G & S: Banners of cloth, nylon; flags, namely, cloth flags, nylon flags; towels; baby bedding, namely, bundle bags, swaddling blankets, crib bumpers, fitted crib sheets, crib skirts, crib blankets; baby blankets

IC 025. US 022 039. G & S: Clothing for adults, infants and toddlers, namely, shoes, shirts, pants, dresses, vest, undergarments, coats, jackets, shorts, sweatshirts, sweatpants, sweaters, blouses; clothing accessories, namely, belts, scarves, socks, gloves, earmuffs, hats, caps, tights, stockings, pantyhose, baby layettes for clothing, plastic baby bibs; footwear, headwear

IC 026. US 037 039 040 042 050. G & S: Hair accessories, namely, hair ties, hair scrunchies, barrettes, hair bands, hair bows, hair clips, hair pins, hair ribbons, ponytail holders; novelty button

IC 028. US 022 023 038 050. G & S: Playing cards, balls, namely, basketballs, baseballs, footballs, kick balls, rubber balls, beach balls, golf balls, hand balls, tennis balls, racquet balls, soccer balls, sport balls; dolls, baby multiple activity toys, baby rattles, baby teething rings, baby swings

IC 035. US 100 101 102. G & S: Product merchandising; online retail store services featuring music, musical recordings, motion pictures, clothing and accessories, novelty items; Entertainment marketing services, namely, marketing, promotion and advertising for recording and performing artists

IC 041. US 100 101 107. G & S: Entertainment services, namely, providing online video games, dance events by a recording artist, multimedia production services; Entertainment services in the nature of live musical performances; production of motion picture films, fan clubs
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Mark Drawing Code (4) STANDARD CHARACTER MARK
Serial Number 85526099
Filing Date January 26, 2012
Current Filing Basis 1B
Original Filing Basis 1B
Owner (APPLICANT) BGK Trademark Holdings, LLC LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY DELAWARE c/o Reed Smith LLP 599 Lexington Avenue New York NEW YORK 10022
Attorney of Record Meredith D. Pikser
Type of Mark TRADEMARK. SERVICE MARK
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Good googly moogly, all this work on DIY/modular/industrial/plywood/Bauhaus bedroom furniture and I'm only finding out about Metamorphokit NOW??

I am clearly doing it wrong:

Dubbed Metamorphokit by the designers [CalArts faculty member Peter de Bretteville and Toby Cowan], it was a kit of modular parts: a combination of chromed tubular steel structural elements, Formica-laminated panels and storage boxes of Finnish plywood, and standard plastic bins. The design had its roots in iconic Modernist furniture: the use of tubular steel quoted furniture designed by Mart Stam and Marcel Breuer at the Bauhaus in the late 1920s and later manufactured by Thonet; the plastic bins served as drawers when used in conjunction with the boxes, recalling Charlotte Perriand's modular case goods of the late 1940s in form, color and concept; and the Finnish plywood and industrial hardware were reminiscent of Charles and Ray Eames' storage units of 1950. The dimensions of the various parts were carefully planned to allow them to be assembled by the students in an infinite number of ways to suit any imaginable need. Assembly of the components would serve as the student artists' first creative challenge on their arrival at CalArts.

There is also a sketch for a bunkbed. Which, despite being made of canvas cots, looks approximately 100x safer than the bunkbed as actually built by this dude. Are those beds turned on end? Doesn't that concentrate an incredible force in the wrong direction on the crossbar supports? How many days before it fell down?

According to CalArts' blog, most of the dorm furniture is now "gone"; only the Metamorphokit work table thrives on campus. Fortunately, you can relive much of the excitement of the three-degrees-removed Bauhaus at Ikea; theTrofast storage system is a dead ringer for the Metamorphokit boxes. I will look more closely at these bunkbeds, though.

Metamorphokit: you can make it anything you want [blog.calarts.edu via icaphila]
East of Borneo Seventies Flashback [icaphila.org]
[all images thoroughly ganked from blog.calarts.edu, except the top, assembled bed, via pdebarc]

"When you're seeing any other color, they're all made up of red, yellow and blue"?

No, OK Go, no they are not.

If They Might Be Giants can embrace the progress of Science, recognize the error of their original version's lyrics and change "The Sun Is A Mass Of Incandescent Gas" to "The Sun Is A Miasma Of Incandescent Plasma," then Sesame Street can certainly correct this OK Go video's centuries-out-of-date misconceptions about color theory, material trichromacy, and the differences between additive and subtractive color mixing.

Obviously, given the persistence of the RYB Color Model and its centrality to the song and the video, I think we can assume a switch to RGB, or cyan, magenta and yellow is out of the question. So the simplest fix is will have to do:

Sesame Workshop needs to pull a couple of people off their Abby Cadabby merchandise research projects, lock them in the room with a lyricist, and give them a week to figure out the scientifically accurate way to change "any" to "many."

Hop to, Muppets, every additional YouTube view is a kid being lied to. By you.

Sesame Street | OK Go - Three Primary Colors [youtube]
RYB Color Model [wikipedia]
Previously: Actually, the sun is NOT a mass of incandescent gas

But seriously, babywearing, rockclimbing, Welsh single mum with the helmet on your own melon, WHY THE @#()$ doesn't the kid get a helmet, too??

After receiving attention from the picture posted online of Ffion without a helmet, Ms Pritchard was quick to stress she never did anything she believed would put Ffion at risk.

Rock climbing with baby on board for Menna Pritchard and Ffion, two [bbc via dt sr wtf correspondent sara]

I'm sure it's beautifully done, but really, I'm only posting about Ithys Press's new letterpress edition of one of James Joyce's two stories for kids, The Cats of Copenhagen, which is actually the first time it's been published as a book, which, interesting, but seriously, the only reason I'm posting about it is so I can repost this awesome David Letterman tribute to Paul Newman.

The Cats of Copenhagen of James Joyce, in two editions, EUR1200 or EUR300 [ithyspress.com]
I am humbled and pleased to see that Daddy Types is still the top Google search for "Paul Newman Volvo"

I still can't get over how pitch perfectly cute and awesome Greg Foley's Thank You Bear is. Such great books. And there's a little website, too? I didn't know Bear was pixelated!

ThankYouBear.com [thankyoubear.com]

Alright, maybe one more. This xkcd list of girl names is pretty outstanding. Nothing against Chipotla, but if I could spell "[sound of record scratch]," it would've been my top pick.

xkcd.com/1011 [xkcd via rolf again, like I said, the google reader's en fuego]

Really, what needs to be said? It's 8:30AM, and I think my blogging work is done here today.

[via likecool.com, thanks (sic) dt reader rlf, whose google reader is a thing of terrible beauty]
Previously, 2005, the lost beginning of the toddler beauty pageant photoshop horror meme: 'Because daughters are...angels with attitude'

David Shrigley | Brain Activity, Feb 1 through May 12, 2011 [southbankcentre.co.uk via guardian]
Check out 100+ David Shrigley books and stuff on Amazon, I lost track years ago [amazon]

To add a little bit of meta to Adam Ladd's video of his 5yo's impressions of corporate logos, K2's impression was that it was Marcel The Shell.

Fresh Impressions of Brandmarks (from my 5-year-old) [youtube via swiss miss]

Oh man, not only are these kid dishes from the pioneering crafty hipsters at Heath Ceramics gorgeous, they are also gorgeous. Let's just savor the gorgeousness for a second.

They're available in fruit [top] and veggie [above] colors, and they sit well with the grown-up Heath Ceramics tableware, without matching exactly. They're about as expensive as the regular stuff, too, which, why wouldn't they be?

But what I was going to say up top is that Heath has thrown so much cutebait out with these dishes, there's gonna be a hipsterparentblogging frenzy. Because there's also a Heath coloring book, a Heath puzzle, a little, wooden toy Heath delivery truck... Basically, no grandparent with a kitchen remodeling project is going to make it out of Sausalito untapped.

Heath Ceramics kids tableware, $75-135, probably in the retail locations, because it's not online yet [heathceramics via publicist]

After reading Dina Bakst's NY Times op-ed about pregnancy discrimination, political cartoonist Tom Tomorrow took a bit of the shiny, happy glow off of Jet Blue with these tweets.

Pregnant and Pushed Out of a Job [nyt via @tomtomorrow]

Speaking of selling out babies, the announcement that, as anticipated, senior executives of HIT Entertainment will be leaving the company when its acquisition by Mattel is completed, led me to this awesomely written article on the deal last fall.

HIT was originally known as Henson International Television and was best known for such preschool IP [intellectual properties] as Bob The Builder and Barney when the investment firm Apax took it private in 2005. The $680 million sale price in October 2011 was disappointing.

But who cares, because honestly, I could read trade journal lingo like this all day long:

The 60-year-old Thomas brand stands as the centerpiece of the deal and will be integrated into the company's top-five core brands, which also include Fisher-Price, Barbie, Hot Wheels and American Girl.

"Thomas is a franchise just like Barbie and Monster High is a franchise, and now we're in a position to own it in perpetuity," said Mattel chairman and CEO Bob Eckert in a conference call this morning.

Aside from the Thomas & Friends property, which currently ranks as the number-one licensed preschool brand in the world, the deal will place big names like Barney, Bob the Builder, Fireman Sam and Angelina Ballerina under the Mattel umbrella.

With more than US$180 million in annual revenues, HIT represents one of the largest independent owners of preschool IP. And with more than half of the Thomas & Friends revenue generated from non-toy products, the acquisition will marry Mattel's global marketing, distribution and brand management capabilities with HIT's global programming and licensing initiatives.

From a content standpoint, the brand reaches roughly one billion households worldwide through programming and DVDs, and Mattel has outlined plans to make Thomas even more relevant in TV, digital and live events businesses that will naturally extend into toys.

HIT's Top execs to leave company [kidscreen]
Thomas to be integrated into top-five Mattel brands [kidscreen]
Previously, related, from 2007: The existential and quantitative implications of Yo Gabba Gabba going prime time

And the winner for email subject line of the week goes to my counter-programming curatorial hero Alanna Heiss, whose Clocktower Gallery is hosting a concert by Brooklyn lo-fi country pop duo The Babies tomorrow night. Which is, alas, sold out.

The Babies live event at streamcast [!], Jan. 31st at 6pm [artonair.org]

STOP WHAT YOU'RE DOING AND WATCH THE WORLD'S GREATEST DEPECHE MODE COVER EVER.

And then go home and start playing music with your kid. It's like the Pitagora Suitchi of music videos.

Dicken Schrader, with Milah and Korben, playing "Everything Counts" [youtube via geekdad]
The Schraders' version of "Strange Love" [youtube]
Previously: Crazy People Are People