Best Laundromat Names

Writing about the dog wash Laundromutt (below) reminded me of SF's hippest laundromat/cafe, Brainwash. It has sleek machines, live music, and you can score crack right outside. I love the wildly colorful chairs, which are so cool, most of them have been stolen. (BTW, the chair artist, Melisssa Hutton, has a piece in the Eat My Words wall-to-wall art collection. My favorite laundromat name is Sit 'n Spin, which was in Seattle's hip Belltown neighborhood. They carried the concept through with shelves of campy board games and plenty of living room furniture for lounging around while your clothes dried. (I just read that they closed two years ago. And now a laundromat in The Castro is using the same name. What's up with that?)

Laundromutt!

Our awesome StudySmart client, Alex Gramling, (who is the president of the Eat My Words fan club), tipped us off to this hysterical name for a dog washing place in Cambridge, MA - Laundromutt. We also love the cheeky name for their waiting area, the Barka-Lounge, where you can watch TV while you wait.

We tried to be sexy...

We always get asked if we only create playful names. While those certainly are our favorite kind of names and the ones we feature in the Eat My Words portfolio, we occassionaly do more straight-forward corporate names. For instance, Landor refered Marcus Associates to us to help them rename Areva, a West Coast transformer company. In 3 days. While our recommended name was Tesla, after Nikola Tesla, the wildly popular (and hot!) Serbian inventor (who incidentally was born during an electrical storm), the client chose a more conservative name, Pacific Crest, to reflect their Southern Oregon roots. Sorry, Nikola. Oh well, at least you have a hair band named after you.

New name for Safeway brand

If you shop at Safeway or any of their sister stores, you may have noticed their sexy new house brand, Eating Right, created by the package design geniuses at Anthem. They hired Eat My Words to come up with a phrase for the system of color-coded spots on each package that feature the dietary benefits and nutrition facts. We coined it "Spot Your Needs." We also wrote packaging copy for 150+ SKUs from frozen entrees to cereal. (Don't you ever wonder who writes all the copy on the cereal boxes you read?)

EMW office featured in HOW's Creativity Issue

HOW magazine is a bible of the design industry. Every issue includes a feature on a swanky design studio in their "Workspace" spread. They have never featured a naming firm, but when they saw photos of the wildly colorful Eat My Words office, the editor decided to bend the rules. Look for the spread and gushing article in the June issue pictured here or download it from our Press page. BTW, a key piece of the Eat My Words art collection, Our Lady of the Eternal Double Latte, by Seattle artist Michael Jacobson, was the subject of a full page feature in HOW nearly 15 years ago.