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Inspiration: The Heritage Collection in melamine
“ROOTED IN MY ASIAN HERITAGE, I WANTED TO
CREATE A COLLECTION THAT REFLECTS AND
REINTERPRETS THAT LINEAGE IN A CONTEMPORARY
WAY. THE MOTIF MIMICS ANCIENT CHINESE BLUE
AND WHITE PORCELAIN (MY MOM IS CHINESE),
AND THE TEXTURE AND SHAPE OF THE PLATTERS
HAVE A SCULPTED, HAMMERED LOOK THAT GIVES
THE COLLECTION A HANDMADE, ARTISANAL FEEL.
BEYOND THE DESIGN AND FUNCTIONALITY, THE
COLLECTION REMINDS ME OF EATING RAMEN AT
MIDNIGHT WITH MY MOM, WHICH IS
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Inspiration: The Heritage Collection in melamine
“ROOTED IN MY ASIAN HERITAGE, I WANTED TO
CREATE A COLLECTION THAT REFLECTS AND
REINTERPRETS THAT LINEAGE IN A CONTEMPORARY
WAY. THE MOTIF MIMICS ANCIENT CHINESE BLUE
AND WHITE PORCELAIN (MY MOM IS CHINESE),
AND THE TEXTURE AND SHAPE OF THE PLATTERS
HAVE A SCULPTED, HAMMERED LOOK THAT GIVES
THE COLLECTION A HANDMADE, ARTISANAL FEEL.
BEYOND THE DESIGN AND FUNCTIONALITY, THE
COLLECTION REMINDS ME OF EATING RAMEN AT
MIDNIGHT WITH MY MOM, WHICH IS
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Why would I chalk about NYC's new website? Reason: inspiration for how websites can help people. In NYC's case, it wants to help voters. In ours, we want to help shoppers. We can learn from websites in any industry. Check out this article comparing the old NYC site vs. the new NYC site
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Ercuis and Raynaud exhibit at the "French May" Festival in Hong Kong from May 4th to June 9th
Raynaud has selected pieces from amongst its heritage treasures that reflect the House's unique
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Resident magazine profiles La Villa Collections tableware
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This article from today's Wall St. Journal shares marketing techniques used by Whole Foods and others to market goods. I think retailers, brands, and sales reps. may use it for inspiration about how they may market their items.
Beginning of article:
By MARTIN LINDSTROM
As someone who's been on the frontlines of the branding wars, I've spent countless hours with CEOs, advertising executives and marketing mavens at some of the biggest companies in...
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In a recent Advertising Age article interviewing Dana Anderson, senior VP-marketing strategy and communications at Kraft, she says that she likes the word – and meaning - behind "pilot." She says the word conveys learning and experimenting. Thus far, we've promoted the testing sites we show retailers with the name Bridge 'sample' site. Maybe we should follow Dana's inspiration and call the tests a Bridge pilot site. View Post
This article below from the Wall St. Journal last week explains a new tool from Mint.com (owned by the giant Intuit). The tool lets people set savings and spending goals on the website mint.com, a massively powerful and widely used online financial site.
What if the same could be done for brands and retailers, so a store could set sales goals for their physical store on a brand's website? The brand's website would give the ...
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This past August Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. captured the crown jewel of the publishing word by purchasing
The Wall Street Journal from the Bancroft family for $5 billion. What does this event have to do with us in the tabletop industry? I propose that there is a lot the industry can learn from Murdoch's coup. The main lesson is that investing in technology-and in particular online operations-is ...
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tabletop podcast
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August / September 2007
Tableware Today
Starting in 2008 there will be a full television channel dedicated to showcasing tableware to millions of households. Tableware TV programming will include advertising and original programming about the manufacturing of hundreds of brands, biographies about the personas behind the brand, and tutorials about how to care for the tableware, amongst ...
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