Some more pictures

Fauxbile Market Pictures

Blog Meanderings

http://theblogonthebookshelf.blogspot.com/

http://www.voon-benson.com/

http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/

http://www.dutchbydesign.com/ukFurniture

http://cribcandy.com/home/page/2/

http://www.notcot.org/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9kTQAk9NOBM

Dish Table- Oddly Similar to Droog's Work

"designer's own words:
Spread the dish on the table. The flexible table cloth that looks just like a dish makes it possible to prepare food anywhere just by spreading it. The meal is over when the dish table cover is removed and washed. A sheet of a flexible ‘dish’ that is folded or crushed brings a new way of life that is not affected by space or time limitations."

Via Design Boom

Stockholm Design Week

Via Core77

From Random Blog Meanderings

http://designmarketo.com/

Group Brain Dump

Last Friday's Stakeholder Meeting Diagram

Mobil Market Visit

Below are the photos of the mobile market at the Brighton Towers:

For Annie

Remember our fruit tree display idea? I found it! It already exists.

From Designboom.com Read more here

Fruit on a Stick

Healthy Food Tastes Good

Scratch and Sniff

Could these be placed at bus stops? On the truck itself? There could be fliers sent out with different food scratch and smell stickers. The possibilities are endless!

Sniffs for Profits

You may be innocently walking through the mall, then your nose lifts and you get a waft of a delicious smell. You continue to walk, now without a thought of your previous path, but you walk along to find where that smell is coming from. Then you come upon Cinnabon. It was that invisible, warm, delicious, sweet, cinnamon-y, doughy smell that silently lured you over. Walking up to the counter, you can see them knead the bread and pour the liquid icing over...and a little runs off the edge. After seeing fresh rolls come out of the oven, it is a monstrous temptation. How could you resist?

Smell is used often as a tactic of marketing. House salesmen often cook up fresh baked cookies, or even just put something good smelling in the oven. Grocery stores, ice cream shops, bakeries, everything is a smell- see and taste galore. The sense of smell is the only sense that is not filtered before the information reaches the brain. The olfactory gland is directly linked to the brain through evolution. It helps let us know of dangers and also what we can approach. Smell is also very strongly linked with memories. You can remember your yearly Christmas dinners with just the slight hint of smell from a pecan pie. The smell of burning wood can remind you of those cozy winter days in front of the fireplace.

With more than just food, stores have certain scents as well. Smelling the obtrusive smell from across the mall will send you to its store. Perfume, another great industry is based on the fact that people like good smelling things and want to smell good as well. Air freshners, candles, what-have-yous, they all try to create a special environment that not only soothes you, but can also be a proponent to get you into action.

Back to smell and food. All food may not be universally good smelling, though the ones that are- these can be powerful tools to lure your next customer. As for those cinnamon buns, can you smell them? I sure can.

Spectacle

definition from the Oxford English Dictionary

1. a. A specially prepared or arranged display of a more or less public nature (esp. one on a large scale), forming an impressive or interesting show or entertainment for those viewing it.

2. A person or thing exhibited to, or set before, the public gaze as an object either (a) of curiosity or contempt, or (b) of marvel or admiration.

3. a. A thing seen or capable of being seen; something presented to the view, esp. of a striking or unusual character; a sight. Also fig.

6. a. A device for assisting defective eyesight, or for protecting the eyes from dust, light, etc., consisting of two glass lenses set in a frame which is supported on the nose, and kept in place by side-pieces passing over the ears. Usually in pl.

I think the last definition is an interesting way of looking at the word since the MM is meant to reach people without access, which can include the blind. Maybe not in the literal sense, but the spectacle can act doubly in this regard. Just a thought.

Infographics: something our professors would love

Ideas for diagramming. Check out more ------>here<------- and here