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NewsBite

Social media and newsletters like TheSkimm inspired my conception of “NewsBite,” which supplies the day’s most interesting news to its readers in an easily digestible format. The home page’s design re

What I’ve Got: Winsor & Newton’s Cotman Water Colours Sketchers’ Pocket Box

As someone who sometimes dabbles in creating art, I typically stick to pen and pencil for my sketches and leave the paints for the studio, but Winsor & Newton’s Cotman Water Colours Sketchers’ Pocket

What I’ve Got: Notebooks with Dotted Pages

As an engineer, used to scribbling equations on all spots of white space available on a piece of paper in a notebook, I always found college/wide-ruled or graphing paper to be incredibly restricting.

Work It Out

A bit over a week ago, Mary Pilon published an opinion piece called “Where Americans Come Together” in The New York Times, describing the closure of a roller skating rink in her hometown. She writes:

What I’ve Got: Pilot FriXion Erasable Pen

I never believed in the myth of the erasable pen until a chipper salesman at Bob Slate Stationer threw the Pilot FriXion Erasable Pen in front of my eyes at the start of this year. Now this pen is my

Challenge 2A

I have very little experience with graphic design, so I decided to plunge into this challenge and try all of the 5 designs (a decision that definitely helped me get a better feel of graphic design, th

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What I’ve Got: Sinjimoru Stick-On Wallet

Sophomore spring was a pretty bad semester for me, mostly because I had a tendency to lose my Harvard ID. In the span of 3 months, I had somehow went through 3 different IDs, and so for my birthday se

What I’ve Got: EcoCity Vintage Backpack

(Image courtesy of Amazon at https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01J3ERC1S/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1) Last semester, my backpack of 3.5 years gave up on college (and me), so I had to

Challenge 3: Money Tree

Only 29% of millennials are actively planning retirement—concerns surrounding paying off student debt often preoccupying their current concerns—but the issue becomes only exacerbated when looking at l

What I’ve Got: SONY ZX310 Headphones

The SONY ZX310 headphones are well-designed for the most part. Its cord to the headphone jack is thick—almost as thick as a watercolor brush’s handle—so that there is little concern about the cord’s d

Challenge 4: Immigr8

Immigr8 is a platform promoting the instruction and acquisition of basic skills to assist immigrants in adjusting to life in the United States, from lessons in American customs to a crash course in th

What I’ve Got: The Underground Tree by Lamont/Houghton

This is an example of questionable design practices… and one of the greatest mysteries of Harvard architecture/landscaping. For a some reason—one that likely baffles every single student and tourist w

Challenge 5

In designing our engagement strategy, we decided to focus on a target population of women aged 15-65 who live in the most fashion-forward cities in America: NYC; LA; Seattle; Chicago; Miami; Austin; D

What I’ve Got: JetBlue’s JFK Airport Terminal

For my spring break trip, I needed to catch a flight from New York City (to a place with no Internet, which is why I’m posting up many “What I’ve Got” writings in one go), and I ended up at the JetBlu

What I’ve Got: Knee High Socks

As I continue to post a backlog of “What I’ve Got” posts that I was unable to upload because I was without Internet last week, I turn to knee high socks, one of my favorite fashion discoveries during

What I’ve Got: Keyboard Skins

When I got my Macbook right before sophomore year, I decided to invest in a keyboard skin—basically a plastic covering for my keyboard. The investment has proven prudent; I’ve spilled soda onto my key

Challenge 8: Design Point-of-View

What I’ve Got: Left Right Ergonomic Crayons

While visiting the ICA, my friend and I decided to check out the museum’s gift shop. To our surprise, we discovered that the gift shop was selling Left Right Ergonomic Crayons, marketed as crayons tha

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What I’ve Got: Dormers

Dunster House—one of the most beautiful upperclassmen houses in Harvard (no, I’m totally not biased). On the exterior, Dunster is an architectural display of class and elegance down to every detail, i

What I’ve Got: Korean Music Industry

For some incredibly abbreviated context: the Korean music entertainment industry is highly regulated. Hopefuls, many of them barely adolescents, audition into entertainment companies and then undergo

What I’ve Got: Disney Tsum Tsum

Recently, a group of fellow dancers and I bought a pack of Disney Tsum Tsum plushies as a gift for our choreographer, and we’ve become obsessed with these miniature stuffed toys. The appeal of the Tsu

What I’ve Got: Harvard ARTS FIRST Festival

I’ve been a volunteer for the Harvard ARTS FIRST Festival for the last two years, and as I enter my third (and final) year working with the festival staff, I’ve become aware of the careful coordinatio

Challenge 10: Quanta

Quanta redefines luxury chocolate packaging. We’re looking to bring the crafted-ness of traditional chocolate packaging into the modern world while also turning the traditional chocolate square on its