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Commented on Pleasure / Other / Laura Anderson
I often think of that question, what happens next? What WILL they think of next? I was in the Apple store the other day and a 50-something woman was playing with the iPads when I was exiting. I stopped and...
Commented on Efficiency/Environmental/DaneThomforde
I recently heard on the news that the "Energy Star" rating for appliances is crap. Read the following article http://www.chicagonow.com/blogs/lowe-down/2010/03/energystar-failure-government-gives-ok-to-bogus-green-products.html. It basically says that if you pay enough money, you can get an Energy Star rating, and that it doesn't...
Posted Competitiveness | Other | Kim Hecomovich to DHA 4365W
Before this semester, I had absolutely NO idea about how beneficial Twitter could be. The only think I really knew about it was that it was like Facebook, but only status updates. I was at the point where I REFUSED...
Commented on Financial | Copyright | Shannen Pickens
A woman I work with at the preschool has come up with a more than a couple of brilliant ideas in her almost 10 years as a toddler teacher that would make parenting and teaching just a little bit easier....
Posted Competitiveness | Personal | Kim Hecomovich to DHA 4365W
Personal competition is quite obviously the battle to better you. Self-help books may be cliché, but I am seriously considering purchasing one in the near future. Why wouldn't I want to better myself? I don't think anything is particularly wrong...
Posted Competitiveness | Financial | Kim Hecomovich to DHA 4365W
Financial competition is an obvious elephant in the room. Money runs our world, and if I may speak for the majority of people, everyone wants more money. Money is usually an awkward and personal subject, especially once you get into...
Commented on Convenience, Social, Grace Bettino
The dielie is a great site that I visit daily. While shopping with my mother last weekend, I happened upon the dieline's most recent packaging design book, box bottle bag, and admired all of the awesome packaging in both aesthetics...
Posted Competitiveness | Financial | Kim Hecomovich to Kim Hecomovich
Financial competition is an obvious elephant in the room. Money runs our world, and if I may speak for the majority of people, everyone wants more money. Money is usually an awkward and personal subject, especially once you get...
Posted Competitiveness | Social | Kim Hecomovich to DHA 4365W
Social competitiveness is one of the most important motivators in our classes today. Without competition I feel the work produced in our classes wouldn't be as thoughtful or distinguished as we are putting out now. An immediate example is the...

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reis0126 commented on Convenience, Social, Grace Bettino
What seems to influence design of packaging is the habits of people. Convenience food is marketed to make life easier, to give more time for what is important. You know, brushing your teeth and driving while talking on your cell phone. Instead of sitting down to an even semi-cooked meal, people can eat a meal where every item comes individually wrapped, and you can throw it all away when you are done. In addition to being wasteful, this food is usually highly processed, and low in nutritional value, and eating too much of it makes you feel like the Michelin...
picke070 commented on Convenience, Social, Grace Bettino
I think its interesting that the speakers form both 3M, and General MIlls spoke on the issues of convenient packaging and what consumers will purchase. And while Grace, like you said, the world is becoming filled with innovative packaging, people are still incredibly resistant to chance, even if it does provide incredible convenience. The speaker from General Mills told the story about how everyone continually gave the feedback that they wanted a resealable bag to keep cheerios fresh. Well General Mills created the bag, sold it on the shelves side by side with the regular bag, for the same price,...
Jenny Parker commented on Convenience, Social, Grace Bettino
What Sunchips is doing is a great idea, and their commercials do a great job of conveying their message. One thing we might want to consider is: at what cost are the new bags being made? I am guessing that the benefit of having completely compostable bags completely outweighs the benefit... but it is also convenient for Sunchips to only tell us that one benefit. Are there other benefits or costs? Are the materials for the new bags local, or do they take a bigger footprint to ship the materials? In the future, when we are in places where these...
holtz067 commented on Efficiency/Environmental/DaneThomforde
As designers, I personally feel that efficiency is a key element in being a little more environmentally friendly. A lot of that stems from eliminating waste and removing unnecessary elements to design, whether it be cutting down on the amount of ink used in a project, to making the most of a given set of materials. The idea that ideas might be cut off in the attempt to be a little more environmentally efficient is a bit disconcerting, however. But at the same time, I feel that it just means working within a tighter set of constraints. Not as great...

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