Tag: Food

What They Don’t Teach You In Design School

Paula Scher on the Real Value of Design Another thing they don't teach you in design school is what you get paid for… Mostly, designers get paid to negotiate the difficult terrain of individual egos, expectations, tastes, and aspirations of various individuals in an organization or corporation, against business needs, and constraints of the marketplace… Getting a large, diverse group of people to agree on a single new methodology for all of their corporate communications...

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Fresh Code Barcodes

Here’s something that every supermarket shopper wishes was currently available. The Fresh Code is an intelligent barcode that doubles up as a graph, indicating the freshness of the vegetable that you’re checking out. The less fresh it is, the less the barcode is displayed, and when you don’t see a barcode, you’ll know that it’s not worth buying. It’s a cool concept, not to mention that when the barcode has disappeared, the cashier won’t be...

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Outta My Way I’m Going To Starbucks!

When Customers Become Walking Advertisements I don't think it is too difficult to create a company people will love and respect so much they will tell the world about it. Companies of course try to attract customers to get them in their door, but are some companies simply looking to get customers in the building, or are they looking to build relationships with their customers? I think you can build a relationship with your customers...

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Renovating American Infrastructure

I was talking with Scott at lunch yesterday about our normal random things, and somehow we got on the subject of America's infrastructure.  I was telling him I recently read a great article from Popular Science about renovating America's infrastructure and wanted to share with everyone as well.  The following is an excerpt: "Chicago road crews are scrambling to fill 67,000 potholes a month. Communities in Pennsylvania rely on 100-year-old water pipes made of wood....

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Jungle Jims International Market

Jungle Jims International Market

Exploring one of America's most extraordinary and eccentric food destinations The Travel Channel's visit to the famous Jungle Jim's International Market Jungle Jim's International Market in Fairfield, OH is one crazy grocery store. The Travel Channel didn't have the clip on their website (FAIL) and even YouTube didn't have it, so I recorded it with my camera (yes I am a grocery geek). Sounds like it is quite the place! Jungle Jim clearly understands marketing!...

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Mark Cuban’s Advice to College Students

Focus Is Overrated I have followed Mark's blog for some time and really liked this post. A college student asked Mark how he remained focused prior to his business success, to which Mark replied with the following: You are still in school. You don't need to have all the answers or focus on one thing. You should be trying a lot of things until you find the one thing you really love to do and...

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