Gift Card Design

Target, you never cease to amaze me, ever.

Hitz from Julian(My EnV Touch)

I can't wait to smell the spring.
It's filled with all the common things
I remember.

Magenta flowers
and complicated twisted lies
promises of the future.
Who ever said any
of us could rise from the dead?
Who ever said any
of the bole could change to the pea
and back to brown again;
where did it all begin?

I remember drunken
words, flip flops
and angst thoughts
and the lost souls
sworn against those of truth.

I remember blank slates
and broken ones
and ones filled with words and pictures
of scrutiny and dysfunction;
slam the will to the table.

May you, May
you are the best thing that could have
happened to me.
April you take me back
to a time when I was growing
up and loving boys that never mattered
when I Hip-Hop
splattered
my name across the board
and I sh- sh-shattered my will on the table,
it's October again.

Spring will always remind me of a time
when I died.
I was green and now I'm
brown again
I was
born again as a
chlorophyll filled
lover.




This has been a
RSP(Random Street Poetry) from Julian [Jan. 18 2010, 10 minutes]

Back in class...

Big question we have to answer... it was semi vague.
Why am I here?

Why am I alive?
Why am I in advertising?
Why am I in this class, Invention, aka portfolio 2?
Why am I in Temple 1148?
Why am I...

Well I made it all boil down to one thing.
I am in the class because I want to be in advertising.
I want to be in advertising because I want to communicate with people, and challenge myself, think of cool and fun things.
And in life I want a nice house or condo, a 2009 Chevy Malibu LT, and a family.
Can't do any of that without the dolla dolla bills ya'll.
So I want to make money, and this is the best and only way I'm going to know how, being creative, in any way I can.

Resources

AHA!
I was wayyy too hype when I came across this website.
It's called WhatTheHashtag.com and what it does is give definitions to all the hashtags on twitter.

BUT, the best part about it is it gives statistics on each one!
This could be a very valuable research tool for marketers if they wanted to see how much something is being tweeted about. The product, or maybe even something that is related to the product. It's purely a goldmine and I love it.


Though it was worth noting.

Bit of Inspir-

Working at bookstore today, I randomly came across a book not being used this semester called The History of Graphic Design and decided to flip through it.

Simply amazed.

I want to own it.
There were a lot of things I saw in there that I know I could one day incorporate in my work. It's not stealing though people, it's influence.



Note to self and others:
This German school Bauhaus is clearly flyer than the rest of em' like Wale would say. More research coming soon.

Also work by Peter Behrens.

#WalmartPlanograms

Really Starbucks?
That's how you feel?

Not gonna lie, it was a good idea.
Way to be on the way to over saturating the market though.

#QuestionOfTheDay: How is Starbucks going to stay 'cool' for long if they're doing this in Wal-mart? We'll see.

#twitterparty

So, one of the trending topics right now on Twitter is #earthfootwear.

What is that, you ask?

Well, they are a brand about shoes that use 'negative heel technology' to help people walk straighter and burn more calories.

Now, I happen to own a pair of these shoes but only because my grandmother bought them for me, thinking about 'my health.' Normally, I wouldn't think that something like this could make a trending topic, until I researched the reasoning behind it.

With over 15,000 followers, they call her the 'Resourceful Mom.' Amy Lupold Bair is a freelance writer, a mother of course, demonstrating how to be resourceful, but also the formal inventor of what they call a 'Twitter party.'

She schedules a time and date for people to talk about a certain thing and voila, you have an entire community of people buzzing on Twitter.

For this one product, I know it is getting a crazy amount of question, considering the fact that it's not a well known brand among young people, but you better believe that people are goggling and asking friends and members on Twitter about them. And if they're not buying, they're at least creating brand awareness to stick out in the consumer's minds.

Resourceful Mom? I'd like to call her a marketing genius! She's using social networking to market like a Rockstar and use the internet/Web 2.0 to it's fullest.

Check her out @resourcefulmom and http://resourcefulmommy.com/

Her next Twitter Party is going to be on Monday, January 11th for #GotMilk.