Colleen and I belong to a boardgame club and we posed for a picture that looks like a game called Kill Docter Lucky. I'm starting to think about designing a game myself—could be fun. What do you think?
Friday, March 30, 2007
Fun at Game night
Colleen and I belong to a boardgame club and we posed for a picture that looks like a game called Kill Docter Lucky. I'm starting to think about designing a game myself—could be fun. What do you think?
Friday, March 23, 2007
Friday, March 16, 2007
Deceptive Wages and Quixtar
Any of you that know me know that I am thoroughly against a subsidiary company of Amway/Altecor called Quixtar. I could write all day about what is wrong with this company but I will just shorten it to the basics.
Quixtar is an online store which supposedly uses its only promotion/marketing in the form of word of mouth or personal relationships. Not the open market. When approached by one of their Independent Business Owners (IBOs) they are trying to get you to become one of them. At first people would introduce their link to Quixtar, but now they've graduated to using strange business group names that have international flair. The IBOs "market" has been saturated with the name Quixtar which in turn has created a bad name for Quixtar.
What does this have to do with design? Everything.
Quixtar IBO's have to operate under a "low radar" with their "groups" so first off they pay for low rate materials even though they are associated with a multi-billion dollar company. So bad/cheap design is prevalent. Moreover staying out of the open marketplace prevents hi end design projects to convey the value of the product. And above all that the product design can be really nothing because the consumer (the IBOs) is "forced" to by what they offer. So no product innovation (why would you?)
So the next time you are approached in a store (reliable marketplace) by a person being too friendly who invites to tell you about their "company/group" yell out SOLICITOR! and see what happens.
"The wicked man earns deceptive wages, but he who sows righteousness reaps a sure reward."
Proverbs 11:18 (NIV)
Quixtar is an online store which supposedly uses its only promotion/marketing in the form of word of mouth or personal relationships. Not the open market. When approached by one of their Independent Business Owners (IBOs) they are trying to get you to become one of them. At first people would introduce their link to Quixtar, but now they've graduated to using strange business group names that have international flair. The IBOs "market" has been saturated with the name Quixtar which in turn has created a bad name for Quixtar.
What does this have to do with design? Everything.
Quixtar IBO's have to operate under a "low radar" with their "groups" so first off they pay for low rate materials even though they are associated with a multi-billion dollar company. So bad/cheap design is prevalent. Moreover staying out of the open marketplace prevents hi end design projects to convey the value of the product. And above all that the product design can be really nothing because the consumer (the IBOs) is "forced" to by what they offer. So no product innovation (why would you?)
So the next time you are approached in a store (reliable marketplace) by a person being too friendly who invites to tell you about their "company/group" yell out SOLICITOR! and see what happens.
"The wicked man earns deceptive wages, but he who sows righteousness reaps a sure reward."
Proverbs 11:18 (NIV)
Wednesday, March 14, 2007
Free stock photos
Hey I totally for got to post my favorite FREE stock photo site:
http://www.sxc.hu/
Check it out. Most pictures are license-free a few you have to get permission from the author, but its no big deal. So post, share, use to you hearts content!
http://www.sxc.hu/
Check it out. Most pictures are license-free a few you have to get permission from the author, but its no big deal. So post, share, use to you hearts content!
Too Much Design?
I wonder how much freelance is too much? I mean, I love design and all the creative freedom freelance design. But do I do too much sometimes? Lately it has been working out with working on three projects with loose deadlines. But will it come to the point where I will be breaking deadlines because I am overloaded? Then will my clients leave because of my project tardiness?
Sometimes I lay awake thinking I could do more if the days where longer—then it dawns on me that that type of thinking can lead to workaholism. So I stay in this place of balance. Hopefully.
Sometimes I lay awake thinking I could do more if the days where longer—then it dawns on me that that type of thinking can lead to workaholism. So I stay in this place of balance. Hopefully.
Friday, March 09, 2007
Quote of the week
“An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens.”
—Thomas Jefferson
—Thomas Jefferson
Monday, March 05, 2007
Riddle
I am a puzzle solver with arms/hands in an armless community. Yet the armless will not accept that I can solve the puzzles—they are nearsighted and I can see very well. Who am I?
Think about it and then check the post…
Think about it and then check the post…
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