Design Kompany | Brand Marketing by Graphic Design studio in Seattle

Lotta controversy right now on the Internet surrounding the Dunkin Donuts ad with the woman wearing a “jihadi chic” scarf.

What?

Yes! People writing furiously on the Internet want to know if Donuts will survive the viral uproar about the ad with a “kaffiyeh”-looking thing draped around a woman smiling with her cup of Dunkin’ Donuts coffee…

Here’s more:

The Associated Press reported that Dunkin’ Donuts said it pulled an online advertisement featuring Ray — whose star status on the Food Network has turned her into a major brand — after fielding complaints that a fringed black-and-white scarf that she wore in the ad “offers symbolic support for Muslim extremism and terrorism.”

Dunkin’ Donuts, a popular coffee and baked goods company, said the ad was yanked last weekend because “the possibility of misperception detracted from its original intention to promote our iced coffee,” the AP said.—Read full text of Rachael Ray ad pulled by Dunkin Donuts, Marketwatch.

Or, read all the news that’s fit to post about the advertising stylist for Dunkin’ Donuts’ choice of scarf for TV person Rachael Ray.

Next up, a Design Kompany op-ed on the Dunkin’ Donuts brand, from yours truly in rain-and-coffee-soaked Seattle. —DK

UPDATE:
Here’s the ramble, Design Kompany’s opinion about Dunkin Donuts’ brand