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Milan Preview 2008: Japan Design

After looking around the Core77 design blog I was amazed at all the innovative designs that were shown, but I really liked the post about the 2008 Japanese design. Its always fun to see things you use in everyday life that look completely crazy yet are still very practical like the NEOREST AH, designed by Yasushi Takahashi, which is an environmentally friendly toilet seat that uses less then half of the water supply a standard toilet does. Not only is it sleek in design it has cool little features like a heated seat and a warm-air drying system that washes and dries you bum. The top 15 industrial design companies in Japan came together to show off their knowledge about design, cultural awareness, and the use of high technology. Some really cool stuff to look forward to in the future.



Posted on March 31, 2008

Moving Ahead

So Even though I haven't solved thee slicing issue yet I've decided that I must move on with the next steps in the project. I hope that jumping ahead isn’t going to hurt me down the road but I’ve read the next parts and seem to be separate pieces that get glued to the final page. So I’ve started looking for videos that would go with my supermarket theme and also cooking up ideas for the animated gif. I’ll keep you posted.

Slicing Hates Me

So I've been having trouble exporting my slices out of Fireworks. It's weird because I'll do the slices, add the rollovers, then preview it in the browser and everything looks fine and works. However once I export the file it gets all jumbled and I’m having a real hard time figuring out the problem. My guess is that my slices need to be lined up in a specific order because of the way the separations happen, hopefully I’ll be able to figure this out.

Seth's Blog

"Do you have" vs. "Do you want"
Posted by: Seth

In this post Seth discusses how a Borders that cut their inventory by 10% and faced books out instead of showing the spines were able to increase profit. He talks about how this strategy is productive but under certain restraints. By decreasing the amount of books they run the risk of losing business but instead of facing the question “do you have?” they’re asking, “do you want?”

I think this approach to selling products is effective but needs to be monitored carefully, especially in stores. I think by facing books out is a more effective way of selling books because as a designer I appreciate the cover art. Also instead of organizing books in alphabetical order you can arrange them for the buyer.



The Needle in a Haystack Problem
Posted By Seth Godin

I really agree with what Seth’s saying in this post, even though we have access to a lot of answers thanks to search engines like google but what about a problem that is hard to type explain or more complicated then one line of text. How do you find the answer to a problem that’s exclusively yours like not receiving e-mails once in a while or sending e-mails you haven’t written? Seth also makes a good point by saying he may have more luck solving his problem because he has a blog but what about the people that don’t? Even though there is no real answer to this problem it is worth mentioning.

Posted on March 13, 2008

NassbaumOnDesign

The Many Ways Blogs, Twitter, YouTube FaceBook, MySpace And Other Social Media Will Change Your Business
Posted by: Bruce Nussbaum

I personally have never been a blogger until this class and even though I've heard of them it just wasn't my nitch. Although after reading this article I can see how blogs and other social networks are changing how we communicate. I do agree that we're in beginging of a creativity boom that allows us to access tons and tons of information through these mediums. I also agree the the digital world is changing a lot of aspects in our lives that never used these kinds of tools.

Now that we have access to all these kinds of entities it makes me wonder how we ever got along without them. I remeber when e-mail was growing and how I thought it very bizarre, but now the entire world uses e-mail on a daily basis. I think of my younger cousins, who are mostly under ten years old, and how they'll never know of life without smart phones or ever know what a dispoable camera is. Whats to become of all these growing technologies? Its almost frightening yet at teh same time very exciting.

Posted on February 23, 2008