1hour design challenge winners! Business Card Hacks!

http://www.core77.com/blog/featured_items/1_hour_design_challenge_winners_business_card_hacks_13353.asp

"Mini Brush and Dust Pan" designed by starz

I found this work from core77. People are usually using business card to appear their name and position. But, from the other point of view business cards can be wasted things because it is just paper with some one's information. How to use it effectively? 1 hour design competition tried to come up with solutions. There are some cleaver solutions. One of ideas is making brush and pan by using business card. 

Virgin Union Square To Shut Down

http://www.thetripwire.com/news/2009/02/27/virgin-union-square-to-shut-down/

This weekend when I passed by Union square st, I found "Virgin"store is going to close and selling their products; cd, dvd and clothes with 50% discounted price. I think this situation show change of period. We don't prefer to buy CD any more for listening to the music  because we can easily download from website like itunes. Most people prefer to use mp3.

Materials recycling:Turning old carpet into new

http://www.core77.com/blog/materials/materials_recycling_turning_old_carpet_into_new_13672.asp

The Ample Sample design competition is for using material scraps that would otherwise go in the garbage. Ample Sample is again challenging designers to rethink and repurpose carpet samples after their usefulness to a design project, to make a design product. I think this competition will contribute to the green environment and designer's creative thinking

Is marketing an art or a science?

http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2009/05/is-marketing-an-art-or-a-science.html

What is marketing?

"marketing" is the promotion of products, especially advertising and branding. According to the article, there are two different approaches ; scientistic, artistic in terms of marketing. But, it is hard to apply to marketing successfully because we can choose only one approach. This means marketing can be an art or a science. As a view of designer, artistic perception attract customers, but it might just fancy things. Sometimes, marketing need scientific approaches, but without design it is not available to attract customers' eyes. I think design is a part of business. To attract customers designers should think scientific and artistic part of marketing. 

philly

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2r3jGtGoYeU&feature=related

I choose South street in Phily as an unique place.

For teenagers, South Street is a good place. More t shirt, CD shops, places to get piercings and fast food joints than you can shake a stick at! 

burger site

http://www.carlsjr.com

This website is for Carl's JR burger. I like this web site because this is very attractive for customers. As soon as I enter this website, I feel like entering real someone's room. There are big TV screen at the center of room. Through TV screen you can see different kinds of TV advertisement. The interesting thing is if you click a telephone on the table, you can choose your roommate and listen your roommate's message. I think website background as room make people familiar with burgers.

inspired design

My concept is rails. How to make well to represent shape of rails?

I found some interesting typography. Even though this work is bending several pens,

I inspired connected lines to make shape of rails, and it looks like rails.