Mar

13

Who? Me? You Must be Miss-kitten.

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Hello Miss K

Years ago (2004 to be exact) I thought Hello Kitty deserved a little re-branding. Her ageless youth was not to be tampered with, but rather her name.

Many of her longtime admirers had grown up and along with the famed cartoon. Didn’t she deserve a more age-appropriate moniker than Hello Kitty?

Hello Miss K is sublime and playful all at once. It’s more than a name, but a reference too; now that the old gal is familiar in pop culture.

Also, it’s current.

Starting and signing off e-mails, IMs, Twitters and more, with an initial is the norm. In the future, conversation and communication may be entirely reduced to single letters, which stand in for words and larger thoughts.

At this point, it’s not about Hello Kitty conforming. It’s about her keeping up. Remaining relevant is subject to a face-lift, now and then.

IMAGE | ANS | Hello Miss K | 2004 | Illustrator and a lot of patience NB | A really thorough article on “texting as communication” can be found at WhoKnew.org, under Is text messaging evolving language?

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