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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All you need is love postage stamp
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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,...
Starbucks store rebranding
Located in the former vault of a historic bank on Rembrandtplein, the new shop will be a showcase for sustainable interior design and slow coffee brewing, with small-batch reserve coffees and Europe’s first-ever Clover, a high-end machine that brews one cup at a time.
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Emo: Hug stool
The weathered-teak construction of the Hug stool adds a touch of rugged nature to interior environments. A colorful rope attached to the block facilitates moving the piece to another spot or from room to room. Measuring 12 inches square by 16½ inches high, Hug also can be a fun side table.
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Design @ Metal is about design, business, technology, social media, inspiration.
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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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Design @ Metal is about design, business, technology, social media, inspiration.
Metal is a strategic multidisciplined design firm in beautiful San Francisco.
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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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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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Design @ Metal is about design, business, technology, social media, inspiration.
Metal is a strategic multidisciplined design firm in beautiful San Francisco.
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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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Design @ Metal is about design, business, technology, social media, inspiration.
Metal is a strategic multidisciplined design firm in beautiful San Francisco.
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Thought you might like to know that the book, “Understanding Women” is now out in paperback.
Freelancing is not easy.
Let’s get one thing straight: Freelancing is not easy. While it offers fantastic benefits — flexible hours, more control and creative independence — there are still plenty of risks involved with striking out on your own and running your own business. And while the economy struggles to recover, freelancing poses pitfalls.
According to the infographic above, compiled with information from MastersDegree.net, a surprising 80% of freelancers have dealt with a client who ultimately didn’t pay for work that was completed. Average losses totaled $6,000 — quite a hefty chunk of change to lose.
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Design @ Metal is about design, business, technology, social media, inspiration.
Metal is a strategic multidisciplined design firm in beautiful San Francisco.
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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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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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Design @ Metal is about design, business, technology, social media, inspiration.
Metal is a strategic multidisciplined design firm in beautiful San Francisco.
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Steve Jobs and his secret ad agency
The Media Arts Lab is an advertising agency like no other. Based at a discreet address, it is thought to employ more than 50 people but has only one client. However, finding information about MAL is not easy.
Go to its website and there is just a holding page, with no mention that this is even an ad agency. The only clue that this might be a business of some significance is that there are phone numbers for four offices in London, Los Angeles, Tokyo and Beijing.
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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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Design @ Metal is about design, business, technology, social media, inspiration.
Metal is a strategic multidisciplined design firm in beautiful San Francisco.
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Steve Jobs: 7 principles for success
1. Do what you love. Jobs once said, “People with passion can change the world for the better.” Asked about the advice he would offer would-be entrepreneurs, he said, “I’d get a job as a busboy or something until I figured out what I was really passionate about.” That’s how much it meant to him. Passion is everything.
