by Shawn Robare | Jun 29, 2015 | Branded in the 80s, Read
As an 80s nostalgia nerd it’s kind of hard to pick a favorite brand or property from my childhood. There are just way too many fond memories and of the thousands of things that I love from that decade each and every one of them has the power to take me back and...
by Shawn Robare | Jun 26, 2015 | Branded in the 80s, Read
If there’s one thing that I try very hard to do with this site it’s to attempt to transport my perspective into the mind of my 10 year-old self so that I can try and see things (like all the old cartoons, toys, and ephemera) as I did almost 30 years ago. ...
by Shawn Robare | Jun 15, 2015 | Branded in the 80s, Read
As I approach my 10th anniversary of running Branded in the 80s I can’t help but feel a pull towards revisiting some of the topics and products that helped to launch the site back in 2006. I’m a different person than I was at the outset and enough time...
by Shawn Robare | Jun 5, 2015 | Branded in the 80s, Read
I spend a lot of time writing and creating stuff for Branded to celebrate all the things that I loved about growing up in the eighties. Part of why I do this is to share my collection of junk that I’ve amassed over the years, and part of it is trying to capture...
by Shawn Robare | May 23, 2015 | Look
I’ve been having a ton of fun creating digital trading cards recently. I think this project sort of falls inside the dead center of my Venn diagram that is a mix of being creative, learning to hone my Photoshop skills, and geeking out about all the 80s stuff...