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Fashion, technology and the 4-inch heel
05/27/2010
Form follows function…again While out shopping with my daughter one weekend we stumbled upon the cutest gladiator sandals. They were trendy, well constructed, and had 4-inch heels. Some women would […]
Bargin For Beans
05/24/2010
Despite incredibly strong counter-efforts by some of our esteemed area politicians and a few of their constituents who have “made” the news of late, it’s time to release another chapter […]
Perfume On The Pig?
05/17/2010
Try Leadership 101 In a recent article on corporate advertising themes, a writer referenced a few he considered truly great, and lamented over how several, for various reasons, had become […]
Q: Is This A Mirage?
05/10/2010
A: No. Deliberately avoiding the scores of national media searching for stories and video that highlight Detroit’s urban decay, while concurrently fighting off the temptation to follow the Dateline NBC […]
ArtPrize 2010
05/04/2010
The world’s largest art prize Have you heard about ArtPrize? It’s the world’s largest art competition completely voted on by the public, and took place in Grand Rapids from September […]
Top Secret!?
05/03/2010
Do loose lips always sink ships? We do a lot of design communications work related to future automotive products, so I regularly read several industry publications and blogs. Recently, some […]
Barefoot Business
04/29/2010
Conscious Capitalism as Marketing For as long as I have been in the business of design, I have watched clients struggle with the balancing act of social consciousness and profitable […]
Need Results? Apply Creativity.
04/26/2010
Be part of the process. A famous quote by Henry Ford states: Chop your own wood, and it will warm you twice. Somehow I don’t think Mr. Ford was suggesting […]
Quality Does Not Mean Expensive
04/19/2010
Determine Your Needs, Then Do it Right I’d bet that if you asked a sizeable sampling of people to name what they thought was a high-quality watch, you’d hear Rolex, […]
A New Caribou
04/15/2010
Is change always good? Being a designer, I’m always keeping up with which companies change their logos, and why. I was a bit surprised when I found out Caribou had […]
Not Just A Pretty Face
04/12/2010
Laying the First Brick? In my March 15th blog, I explained how I felt cheated by the lack of real breakthroughs in transportation design during the last several decades, but […]
My choice to go Green
04/06/2010
It was a little over a year since I moved into my place and I was still staring at white walls. I didn’t mind so much not having them painted. […]
