Design @ Metal
A multi-disciplined branding design principal at Metal with extensive experience in corporate branding, personal branding, print, annual report, web, social media, mobile, blog, content, monetization, ecommerce, and retail merchandise design. Obsessed with strategic entrepreneurial thinking with a clear understanding of branding, marketing and business strategies, my designs were published in top publications such as Graphis, CA, Print, How and Archive. I will share my favorite projects, interesting things on design, business, technology, inspiration, and social media marketing for big and small business here.
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Introduction to social marketing at Metal
Every single small business faces the very same conundrum – when you’re busy servicing customers, you’re...
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If you are willing and obedient, you shall eat the good of the land - IS 1:19
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Sweet salvation
Dara penned a goodbye letter to her children, knelt by her bed and reached for the gun to end her life. The debts from her... -
Unforgettable 9/11 Story
On Sept. 11, Dave and Linda were on their way to New York City. They missed their flight and had to standby for the next... -
“God has a reason for allowing things to happen. We may never understand his wisdom, but we simply have to trust his will.”
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Extraordinary Answer to Prayer
Dr. Price grew up poor. He had a deep desire to help people in need since he was a boy. When he saw a program to... -
OBEY GOD.And leave all consequences to Him. - Oswald Chambers
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NBA legend Dikembe Mutombo
NBA legend Dikembe Mutombo uses the gift God gave him to help Africa.
From his towering height to his gravely voice,...
Check out new Starbucks store made out of shipping containers outside of Seattle. What a brand designers and architects love to work for!
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McDonald concept store in Paris
In the battle between José Bové, the French antiglobalism activist, and his bête noire, McDonald’s, there’s no question that the fast-food giant emerged victorious. Today, France has effectively declared its love for Le Big Mac, becoming the No. 2 McDonald’s consumer in the world. To be fair, McDo—as the French call it—has changed things up to woo discerning customers: It sources most of its ingredients from French farmers and recently introduced 130 McCafés featuring espresso and pastries (we’re talking macarons here, not deep-fried apple pies). And now, it’s even classing up its interiors, with the help of Paris-based designer Patrick Norguet.
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From a dimly lit warehouse to $1 billion - The Instagram story
Past midnight, in a dimly lighted warehouse jutting into the San Francisco Bay, Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger introduced something they had been working on for weeks: a photo-sharing iPhone application called Instagram. What happened next was crazier than they could have imagined.
In a matter of hours, thousands downloaded it. The computer systems handling the photos kept crashing. Neither of them knew what to do. “Who’s, like, the smartest person I know who I can call up?” Mr. Systrom remembered thinking. He scrolled through his phone and found his man: Adam D’Angelo, a former chief technology officer at Facebook. They had met at a party seven years earlier, over beers in red plastic cups, at the Sigma Nu fraternity at Stanford University. That night in October 2010, Mr. D’Angelo became Instagram’s lifeline.
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Ultra cool Japanese Starbucks store
The store, by Kengo Kuma, is evidence that the coffee giant is becoming more aware of cultural differences. Starbucks recently commissioned starchitect Kengo Kuma to design an outpost in Dazaifu, a small city in Japan’s Fukuoka Prefecture, that, with walls covered in a matrix of wood planks, is a striking departure from the company’s typical interiors. Earlier this year, it opened an experimental shop in Amsterdam. And according to The New York Times, Starbucks is investing millions in making over hundreds of its stores in France to appeal to coffee aficionados who favor the personalized atmosphere of cafés. The Starbucks in Dazaifu is an outgrowth of the architect’s fondness for natural materials. More than 2,000 wooden batons line the 2,260-square-foot shop, creating a loosely woven lattice that extends beyond the storefront’s edge. A few signs are the only outward indicators of the brand. According to Kengo Kuma and Associates, the design is meant to blend with the other buildings along the road to Dazaifu Tenmangu, Fukuoka’s most famous shrine, dedicated to the god of learning.
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A nice day of camping on the cliff.
You should try it sometime. May help firing up your creativity.
Analyst says IPhone 5 was Steve Jobs’ last project; expected to be released this summer. If the story that Jobs headed iPhone 5 production sticks (and we’re sure it will), the device is likely to reach iconic status by the time it’s released. We’ve also heard that the iPhone 5 will sport a completely overhaul and new design with full 4.6” display. Gonna be a knock out.
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More traffic at Pinterest
Pinterest Drives More Traffic Than Google+, YouTube and LinkedIn Combined
Pinterest, the darling digital pin board that’s turned the social media world upside down, is now a top traffic driver for brands. That’s a good sign marketers should get their strategies up to speed.
You’re probably not surprised that 87% of Pinterest users are women. However, you may not realize that the site has a significant age range, with 80% of users fairly evenly distributed between 25 to 54. If you haven’t caught the Pinterest bug yet, be assured many others have. According to a comScore report, it was the fastest standalone site in history to pass the 10 million users mark.
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Personal branding is important for small business
You’ve heard a million times that most small businesses fail after the first or second year. So what happens to an entrepreneur when their business is gone? The answer is that they are taken down with their company unless they’ve built their own brand simultaneously while operating their business. A personal brand can always be leveraged by an entrepreneur to regain momentum, capture attention and even start a new business faster than their previous one.
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Luminarie De Cagna by Cagna Illuminations @ Festival of Lights Ghent
55,000 LEDs lit up a cathedral
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Interesting article on email.
Next time you write an email subject line, words such as “confirm,” “join,” “press,” or “invite” is not a good idea if you want a response, says data from Baydin, the makers of email plugin Boomerang. Baydin recently extracted data from five million emails its users handled. It found that some subject-line words, such as “apply” and “opportunity,” got more responses than words from the aforementioned list. Also the best time to send emails is before work around 6 a.m. Baydin’s average email game player deleted about half of the 147 messages he or she received each day. Ninety minutes of the two hours he or she spent on email each day went to just 12 messages.
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A nice little Broccoli House
Food sculptor by Brock Davis
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Metal is a strategic multidisciplined design firm in beautiful San Francisco.
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Innovation lessons from the latest new brand
Sabi, a line of branded, ergonomic products for the aging.
1. Finding the right opportunity.
Rather than intuiting some need out of the ether or working toward his big idea over a decade, Assaf Wand, founder of Sabi, applied a mix of analytics, hustle, and hard work to finding an overlooked business opportunity.
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Be relentless in reinventing “You” as a brand
Instead of making yourself a slave to the concept of a career ladder, reinvent yourself on a semiregular basis. Start by writing your own mission statement, to guide you as CEO of Me Inc. What turns you on? Learning something new? Gaining recognition for your skills as a technical wizard? To have a long lasting success, you must see yourself as a successful brand and act like one.
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Metal is a strategic multidisciplined design firm in beautiful San Francisco.
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