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Nasty Woman Button

I received this button from a friend at the recent Women’s March in Boston. Other notable paraphernalia included a variety of homemade signs and pussy hats, which created seas of pink at marches aro

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Nasty Woman button

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political slogan buttons

"I Like Ike" buttonssplit

"I Like Ike" buttons

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Sometimes things are desirable because of the very fact that they aren’t practical. I received this “cookie skillet” over the holidays that can only make a single cookie and came with the dry ingredie

Newsworthy

Newsworthy preserves the best parts of a physical newspaper. For our specific target population, many of whom are new smartphone users, there is familiarity with and trust of print newspapers. However

New Shoes

Inspired by a lyric from this song, I wanted to make my experience a playful one. Hard conversations (i.e. politics at the dinner table) are avoided because we assume they must be unpleasant. Drawing

Graphic Design Workshop

Part 1: Logo(s). In order to create a logo for myself, I played with the rhyming of my last name and the symbol of a cat (I often go by the nickname “Cat”). I decided to go for quantity and created a

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personal logo (cat variations)

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Widener Library photo edit

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presentation template

What I’ve Got: Map of Midtown Manhattan

What is more quintessential college dorm room decor than a poster? Ideally, dorm room decor says something about who one is (including, perhaps, where one is from or where one is going.) The vintage,

What I’ve Got: Tracks Air Headphones

Image source: http://jamthehype.com/sol-republic-announces-tracks-air-bluetooth-headphones/ I’ve noticed that a lot of people find their headphones very desirable. It’s understandable — headphones are

Pig E-Bank

What if your credit card had a piggy bank? Pig E-Bank helps you manage your money by providing incentive to save toward your financial goals through pictorial representations of saving. Think of it as

Betucation

What it is: We assumed students are fairly motivated to begin their learning journey, so we chose to focus on retention. Betucation is a platform where students are incentivized to continuing learning

What I’ve Got: Everlane Modern Commuter Backpack

I deliberated over this decision for a long time because before buying the modern commuter a few weeks ago, I had been sporting the same beat-up black north face backpack since high school. As a colle

Challenge 5: Backgrounds

We plan to distribute the survey via platforms that users are already using to learn about themselves: particularly, via Buzzfeed quizzes. If the brand has a mailing list we will distribute there as w

Challenge 7: Eatogether

In college dining halls, all is on display. An unintended consequence of these large, open semi-public spaces is that eating idiosyncrasies can be seen by everyone, often forcing individuals to eat in

Challenge 8: What is desirable and how do we decide?

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Design Hunt New Tab Chrome Extension

I’ve tried out a lot of new tab extensions, but I have kept this one for much longer than many of the others. I find it desirable because it allows me to gather a lot of visual inspiration without muc

Challenge 9: Candela – The Cross-Generational Headphone

For Challenge 9, we created a counter-cultural product that, should it catch on popularly, will close the generational gap. Music has long been heralded as a unifying force that cuts across generation

What I’ve Got: Homemade Puzzles

This simple puzzle is made from running a band saw through a piece of unfinished wood a few times. What’s so compelling about this piece is that it reminds me that all the objects around me — even som

What I’ve Got: Really Round Rocks

Near the Pemaquid Point lighthouse in Maine (the famous lighthouse featured on the state quarter for Maine), the water rushes past the rocks quickly enough that they become incredibly smooth. They en

What I’ve Got: Quote Mugs from Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

Presumably, people see these mugs from the ISG gift shop after walking through the ISG museum (or less likely, before walking through the museum). I’m sure it is exceedingly rare to go to the gift sho

What I’ve Got: Subtle Gifs

Subtle gifs are images that at first glance seem to be static, but upon further examination, turn out to actually have some aspect of them that’s moving, like this image which is mostly static except

What I’ve Got: J. Crew Peacock Clutch

What I really enjoyed about this item was seeing the back story behind how it was made. Had I just seen the purse (without seeing the first photo posted), I likely wouldn’t have noticed the different

What I’ve Got: Gold Envelope

My mother used to own a stationery store, so I always pay special attention to the cards I send her for Mother’s Day, etc., with the idea that she would particularly appreciate a good choice. I chose

What I’ve Got: simplehuman Trash Bags

These trash can liners I purchased from Target included a sticker (placed on one of the last few bags) that reminded me to purchase more. I thought this was clever and consider this feature essentiall

What I’ve Got: Coffee Visualizations

I drink a lot of coffee now, but it’s not that hard to remember a time when I didn’t. To the uninformed consumer (think: children, or those who always order just plain black coffee), it can be incredi

What I’ve Got: Soap with Scented Pieces

Something that doesn’t translate to a photo but that made these soaps desirable is that they smelled incredible. This may just have been due to the melted soap part, but in my mind, I attributed it to

What I’ve Got: Dragon Frap

Due to the incredible surge in popularity of the instagram-able Unicorn Frappuccino, Starbucks Baristas who ran out of the necessary ingredients created another drink, the Dragon Frap. The drink was t

Challenge 10: This & That

For this challenge, we examined the different types of secondhand clothing stores in order to see if there was a compelling problem in this space. We visited many different secondhand clothing stores–