Panic room or wine cellar

Looks like it could be a panic room right in your kitchen...a robber comes and you just pull up the hatchet and run down the spiral stairs. However these are actaully wine cellars...the wine bottles surround the spiral stair case all the way down the tunnel. Imagine the look on guests faces when you open up part of your kitchen or living room floor and have a mini wine cellar.

In order to install them a van full of a team of men come and install the wine cellar and even do the paper work for the government. The secret wine cellars cost alot of money but are very very cool...and if a robber does break into your house... you also have a mini panic room.

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United States Snowboarding Team Blog

Shaun White Olympic Snowboarder

2010 us Olympic snowboard halfpipe team, left to right: Kelly clark, Gretchen bleiler, hana teter, Scotty lago, louie vito, shaun white

Gretchen Bleiler Half pipe

United States Snowboarding Team

Since I was around 10 years old I have been a dedicated skiing. My family and I travel every year to a different ski slope in the New England area and I have even been on several ski trips with my high school to Austria and Italy. After spending so many years committed to the skiing sport I never thought I would have any interest in learning to snowboard. Last year for the first time my sister and I had a snowboarding lesson for the whole day and I loved it! It is a very different kind of experience than skiing and I loved the thrill and excitement of the sport. I chose to write this blog on the United States Snowboarding Team due to my newfound interest in the sport. I want to learn about the sport at the professional level and all of the sports marketing efforts behind it.

I want to start off with a little background information about the sport itself. Snowboarding was originally inspired by skateboarding, surfing and skiing. It was developed in the United States in the 1960's and became an official Winter Olympic Sport in 1998. The ultimate goal of the US Snowboarding team is to get its riders on the Olympic podium. The US Snowboarding team is the most successful international snowboard program over the past ten years. Since the sport became an Olympic event in 1998 the US team has manages a total of 14 Olympic medals, including the historic men’s half pipe event in 2002 and a best in the world performance of seven medals in 2006.

There are four different snowboarding styles: Halfpipe, slope style, snowboard cross and alpine snowboarding. Half pipe is the most recognized of the styles that has a long track record of success in the U.S. Olympics. A giant pipe is constructed at the resorts that is carved out and used with man-made snow creating a 22-foot deep pipe. Snowboarders on the half pipes are judged based on the execution of their jumps and tricks as well as the difficulty of the stunt. Half pipe as an Olympic event was started at the beginning of snowboarding entering the Olympics in 1998.

Slope style is a freestyle ride down a slope that is filled with rails, hips, jumps and tabletops, which allow snowboarders to do their specific tricks which catching big air. The landing, difficulty, execution are judges. Slope style however is not yet an Olympic sport, however is very popular and some day may be an event.

Snowboard cross or SBX became an Olympic event in 2006 and was rated the most action packed event in snowboarding. A special snowboard cross is built where teams race in groups of four, riding obstacles full of jumps, rollers and turns.

Alpine snowboarding involves a few different snowboarding formats, which include parallel giant slalom and parallel slalom. Parallel giant slalom however is the only one that is an event in the Olympics. Alpine snowboarding was the only original snowboarding event in the Olympics in 1998. In parallel giant slalom the snowboarders race head to head side by side. Parallel slalom is the same however the snowboarders are competing on the slalom courses.

Throughout the rest of this blog I intend on tracking the development of the current United States Snowboarding team on issues related to sports marketing, including opportunities and threats for the team. I plan on reviewing all three of the snowboarding style events in the Olympics that are examples of how the sport is marketed to the public. I will also follow news stories and monitor individual athletes including Gretchen Bleiler explaining their own individual success stories that are related to sports marketing. I will study the proud sponsors of the US Snowboarding team, some of which include Sprint, Visa, Burton, Audi, Bud light, Delta and TD Bank and how these partnerships are supporting each other.

I want to study how the team markets themselves and the advertising and promotional efforts used to generate awareness and support for the up and growing sport and team.

A different look at Tea

Fellina Sok-Cham's bamboo serving tray has inserted bamboo saucers and little spoons with a modern design that creates almost like a net of holding place of the cup. this is a great way to serve espresso, tea or deserts. It is great to bring out at parties and people as it is unique and handy way of serving. Also to serve deserts in an attractive way that looks very prepared and neat. The bamboo = great material. Also it is dishwasher safe and very affordable at $45 on the MoMA store or $36 for those people who are members. Next weekend i will be going to MoMA and look for this in the gift store!

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Micro Piglets

Micro Piglets

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOb18fFCfKQ

Micro Piglets are the new pets of the future...they have become a craze in the UK and are going for only $700. They make great pets...they are just like dogs...very loveable and smart. Apart from they are easier than dogs...they only eat twice a day and need lots of water...they dont need to be walked either..they are very content just hanging out in the house. These little micro piglets are bread so they wont be over 14 inches in height.

David Carson Final

David Carson was born on September 8th 1952 in Texas. Later in his life he and his family moved to New York City. Carson still calls New York home, however he has travelled around the world with his father. Travelling gave Carson new insights and understandings of himself and his interests and talents. It wasnt untill Carson attended the University of Arizona for a two week long graphic design program, and this is when his talents were beginning to be discovered. Carson went to San Diego State University and Oregon College of Commercial Art. In 1983, while studying in Switzerland Carson met Hans-Rudolph Lutz, who was a huge inspirational figure that helped and motivated and gave Carson confidence. He worked as a Sociology teacher as well as a professional surfer back in the 1970's. He also worked for surfing, skateboarding and music magazines throughout the 1980's. It wasnt untill the 90's that Carson became known for his work. Carson was an art director for surfing magazines and the style magazine Ray Gun from 1992 to 1995. It was through these efforts that Carson became known world wide. Today Carson owns two studios, one in California and the other in Zurich. It
Carson began his career experimenting with graphic design and becoming interested in the bohemian and artistic culture and feel of California. Carson created his own personal style, he created a style using 'dirty' type face and unique design techniques, making his work edgy and original. Later because of his new found style Carson was known as the father of grunge. Transworld Skateboarding magazine was the magazine that Carson worked for as Art Director. Aswell as working for a surfing magazine, Carson was also in fact a professional surfer and in 1989 he was named 9th best surfer in the world. Carson also designed Beach Culture which came from the annual supplement. Only six quarterly magazines were issued, it was this work by Carson that made him a well known graphic designer. Even people who didnt support his work and efforts were calling him innovative.
Carson eventaully was hired to design Ray Gun by Marvin Scott Jarrett a publisher. This magazine was aimed towards a type of lifestyle and music. Carson was not afraid to let his ideas come through, no matter what other people said, he was an individual. Being a designer for this magazine made Carson very well known. Carson was featured in May 1994 in the New York Times and in 1996 in Newsweek for his work on this magazine, this also made him more well known and increased his publicity. Eventually in 1995 Carson founded his first studio in New York City called the David Carson Design. People from all over the country were attracted to his work and between the years of 1995 and 1998 Carson worked for big name companies such as Pepsi Cola, Ray Ban, Budweiser, Giorgio Armani, American Airlines, Nike, Microsoft, NBC, Levi Jeans, Kodak, Packard, Lycra, British Airways and AT&T. Later on he worked for Dell, Toyota, Sony, Warner Bros, Cuervo Gold, CNN, Suzuki, MTV, Princo, Johnson AIDS Foundation, Fox TV, Lotus Software, Quicksilver, Nissan, Mercedes-Benz, Intel, Nine Inch Nails, and MGM studios. He was also a design consultant for the tourist magazine Blue in 1997.
In 2000 Carson opened another studio, a personal studio though in South Carolina. Four years later Carson became the Creative Director of Gibbes Museum of Art in Charleston and still designed special editions for surfing magazines, as well as creating a television ad for UMPGUA bank in Seattle Washington.
Carson is known for creating and making known the style of typography and photography based graphic design. he was an inspiration in the 1990's to many young aspiring graphic designers. He is not a traditional artist, he works on his own terms and creates innovative design standards. Carson is very emotionally involved in his work, he puts his heart and soul into every project he has done and thinks very deeply and thoroughly through his ideas and become lost in the subconscious. Carson can always create the feel and idea behind all of his designs. Many people today have changed their work to be more like Carsons work. With his combinations of photography and typography he has craeted and distinguished himself as unique.
Although Carson has many followers, like any designer he has recieved criticism. Carson was a huge influence on modern graphic design within the past twenty five years. he took photography and typology as twisted them, manipulating a new kind of graphic and conveying the message in a new way that draws the viewer in and forces them to htink deeply into the image.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Carson_(graphic_designer)

Final Exam Study Guide

"God is in the details" - Mies Van DeRoche - very important to have big/great ideas, The detail of a piece of work is what can make the project magnificent.

"Nothing ever goes away" - Marshal Mcluhan - cars replacing horses, horses didnt go away though they have just moved into a new category or art. They are not needed for transport anymore but they are still around and have different uses.

highlight - lightest part of the photo
midtone
shadows

Denotated - text that is factual, information design ex- sources

Connotated - text that is more subjective ex- poetry, lyrics


Bleed - full bleed - one picture on the cover

weights - thickness of fonts

-type faces have character

serif - has little curls

sans serif - plane. In french means not curly.

The difference between Illustrator and Photoshop is...

-Illustrator is vector based, it is mathmatical. It is the use of geometrical systems such as points, lines, curves which are all based on mathmatical equations to represent images in computer graphics. Vector based images can be scaled as big as you want, Raster Based cant.

-Photoshop is a raster based program, in a grid orientation. Raster graphics are the representation of images as an array of pixels which is typically used for the representation of photographs.

-Google - biggest media company in the world. Google is a very interesting frame with in this frame are all different kinds of things.

-linear way of thinking - way we think as humans

-Characteristics of a logo - not a picture or illustration, logos are stylized.

-Stylized - means highly reduced reference to something.

-Starting to create a project or design it is best to start playing around with it in just black and white. This helps you build the skeleton to start the project.

Pixel - is a single point in a raster image. Pixels are usually arranged in a 2-demensional grid and are often represented using dots or squares.

Quark- Page layout and publishing Software. QuarkXPress - desktop publishing layout editor. creating and editing page layouts. Used for flyers, magazines, newspapers and catalogs.

Photoshop- graphic editing program, image manipulation software. format includes layers. pixel based image editor

Illustrator- vector based drawing program by Adobe Systems. Used mainly for type setting and logo graphics.

Design- is the planning that lays the basis for the making or any project or system.

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Notes for Illustrator- Business Cards

download image and save

File, Place

Pen Tool, 6 from the top

Change fill color, upper left, stroke black

Selection tool - delete picture

Select image - go to fill (box with red line) Change to black

Object, transform, scale

Print out half inch 3/4 inches

File, new, print

border, 2 by 3.5 inches Standard US business card

illustrator, preference, units, general, inches

paste in logo upper left hand corner

Type tool T - name - biggest font 11 or 12 flush right bold.

-name

-address

-tel

-web ad

-email ad

window, type, character

view, show rulers - helps you position

make border lines

address - not bold, a point - same font

make little box to check distance between type

make new file

put borders up - make guide

object, group

paste business cards on guides

delete black brder - un group, delete