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  Identity Systems (business identity, corporate I.D.) The visible essence of a corporation, institution, or government agency. Identity, unified and controlled, can provide a positive association in the eyes of customers, stockholders, and the public.  
  Illustration Specialized area of art that generally uses nonphotographic images, usually representational, to make a visual statement.  
Image advertising Promoting the image, or general perception, of a product or service, rather than promoting its functional attributes. Commonly used for differentiating brands of parity products (e.g., "This is a woman's cigarette").
  Image Manipulation The art of combining, cropping, correcting, restoring, and blending photographs or original artwork.  
Image Map Graphic images containing multiple, clickable links.  
Independent contractor A person who is hired by a company, but works for himself/herself. The company is a client, rather than an employer.  
  Informative Advertising Nonpersonal promotion that seeks to announce the availability of and develop initial demand for a new good, service, organization, person, place, idea, or cause.  
Insert An advertisement, collection of advertisements, or other promotional matter published by an advertiser or group of advertisers, to be inserted in a magazine or newspaper. It may be bound into the publication, or be inserted without binding.  
  Integrated Marketing Communication (IMC) A management concept that is designed to make all aspects of marketing communication (e.g., advertising, sales promotion, public relations, and direct marketing) work together as a unified force, rather than permitting each to work in isolation.  
  Interactive Marketing Buyer-seller communications in which the customer controls the amount and type of information received from a marketer through such channels as the Internet, CD-ROM disks, interactive 800 telephone numbers, and virtual reality kiosks.  
  Island display An in-store product display situated away from competing products, typically in the middle or at the end of an aisle.  
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