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Wearable Story: Life is good

The Life is good brand is based on a simple idea. Brothers Bert and John Jacobs were nearly broke when they took one of their drawings of a happy stick figure wearing a beret and put it on some shirts

What I’ve Got: New Balance Quarter Zip

Designing a great track jacket is not an easy task. The jacket needs to be light, easy to move in, comfortable, and warm. No one wants to look bad when they workout either, so a great jacket is also s

NewsCast

NewsCast is a simple, elegant, and informative app aimed at speakers of all languages and those who are semi-literate. The app relies more on pictures than words, and text is limited when possible. T

What I’ve Got: Victorinox Swiss Army knife

Who doesn’t love to be the person who can open a package, can, or wine bottle at a moment’s notice? The one with a screwdriver, saw, and wire cutter all on hand at once? The one who can do anything fr

Potluck Soccer

I’ve heard countless times that soccer is the universal language, and from my experience, I believe it. Every four years, the world comes together to celebrate the World Cup. Nations that are otherwis

Challenge 2a

For this challenge I designed a personal logo, 3 icons, and changed up a photo I had taken. For the logo, I went with a design that I’ve often doodled but never actually tried to design into somethin

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Pacman Ghost Light

Nothing deserves the title of “Most Useless Thing in My Room” more than the Pacman Ghost Lights I have. These lightweight chunks of white plastic look pretty out of place and not very cool when they a

SporkSave

SporkSave is an app designed to help anyone (but specifically college students) save. We observed that most unnecessary spending in college is for food, drinks, and coffee. Our app targets saving stra

What I’ve Got: Amazon Kindle

The Amazon Kindle Paperwhite is the best way to read a book. While some people prefer classic paper books, the Kindle allows me to carry hundreds of books around at the same time, always weighing a mi

What I’ve Got: The Resistance

The Resistance is an easy and quick game to learn that is perfect for starting fights among your friends. Five to eight people can play this game, and it requires very little equipment. Depending on h

RankUp

RankUp is a learning platform for veterans entering or reentering the civilian workforce, although it could potentially be adapted for other types of career changers. Designed to be used in conjunctio

What I’ve Got: The Resistance

The Resistance is an easy and quick game to learn that is perfect for starting fights among your friends. Five to eight people can play this game, and it requires very little equipment. Depending on h

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Challenge 5

To accomplish our goal of getting a target audience to take this survey, we first determined our buyer persona. Based on the pictures in the survey, we want to target young and middle-aged women. We s

What I’ve Got: Lucky the Leprechaun

The job for most mascots is a relatively easy one: wear a large costume covering the whole body, wave your arms around to pump the crowd up, pose for pictures with fans, and dance around at halftime w

What I’ve Got: “Flat World Champions” T-shirts

About a month ago, Cleveland Cavaliers star and reigning NBA champion Kyrie Irving announced in a press conference his strong conviction that the earth is indeed flat. A week later teammate Richard Je

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#Challenge7: Boost The results of our #Challenge6 survey of elite athletes shaped the app we created for #Challenge7. We found from our survey that, while (as argued in the Bradley article listed belo

What I’ve Got: Crocs

Crocs are the ultimate multipurpose shoe. These foam clogs with small holes in the top can be worn around the house as slippers, worn in the water as Tevas, or worn outside as shoes. Many argue that

What I’ve Got: Crossword Puzzles

The crossword puzzle is one of the most common, frustrating, and rewarding challenges to play. A good crossword must straddle the fine line between too easy and impossible, must have good puns, a good

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What I’ve Got: Starter Jackets

In many 90s sports movie and highlights, you’ll see athletes on dressed in colorful windbreaker-looking jackets. These starter jackets were quintessential sportswear in the 90s, both because of their

What I’ve Got: Harvard Athletic Logos

The sports teams at Harvard sport a simple, crimson logo in the shape of a shield with a plain, white ‘H’ in the middle of it. This logo is the primary athletic logo at Harvard and is found on nearly

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What I’ve Got: New Balance Mid-D Spikes

New Balance track spikes are produced with many design decisions carefully implemented to make the wearer as fast as possible. The middle distance spikes that I’ve worn as only 4.5 ounces, which is su

What I’ve Got: Glass Flowers

For those willing to make the walk to the Harvard Museum of Natural History (it’s right on the way to Design Survivor!) the most stunning exhibit there is Glass Flowers. Modeled in the late 1800s and