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Manity: a changing landscape for modern men’s skin care

A good marketing campaign rarely breaks the fourth wall but when we, the consumer, are attuned to the manipulation behind the scheme it invites casual criticism. Packaging a man’s product seems pretty

What I’ve Got: Google Pixel XL

Google has long partnered with other phone designers to headline their purest operating system model for Android enthusiasts usually dubbed the Nexus line. Late 2016, Google announced a completely in-

Illustrative Journalism

This article, titled “Why News Outlets are Watching India’s Next Billion Internet Users” outlines the potential market and unique circumstances of India’s burgeoning digital news market well. In desig

What I’ve Got: Le Creuset Wooden Spoon

Le Creuset made a wooden spoon that’s only improvement over other wooden spoons is that the front edge is flattened to provide for scraping. This is an incredibly small innovation that appeals greatly

Flyover-land

Studies have shown that there is growing ideological consistency between the two parties and also growing partisan antipathy. Many have attributed this political divide to be one of differences betwee

Challenge 2A

For this challenge I decided to work on developing an actual personal portfolio website from scratch (instead of using the template I was before) and also create an icon for myself. The end result can

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What I’ve Got: Topo Designs Klettersack

Topo Designs, a Colorado based outdoors equipment company, has a staple backpack called the Klettersack. Sporting a more traditional design and aesthetic, combined with modern materials, these bags ar

What I’ve Got: Nightride

Tinashe, a young up and coming artist in the pop and R&B genres released her sophomore album called Nightride recently with the above album cover which is pretty visually stunning in my opinion. The c

Challenge 7: Holocup

We surveyed 250 Harvard undergraduates about their responsiveness to various pickup and opening lines that one might receive on a dating application testing how they responded to sexual, random, plain

What I’ve Got: CosRX

CosRX is a Korean skincare brand that focuses on minimal branding, effective ingredients with simple formulations. They’re really quite unique in their market because most skincare products in the Kor

What I’ve Got: Margiela Cut-Out Heels

I’m interested in how simple physical characteristics become iconic with a brand, for example red bottoms on heels being immediately associated with Christian Louboutin. Maison Margiela did something

Challenge 8

After reading the “Framework of Product Experience” I feel that I attribute a lot of weight to aesthetic experience and experience of meaning in designs. So far in my posts, I’ve outlined various aspe

What I’ve Got: Acne Studios Blå Konst photographed by Collier Schorr

Acne Studios is relaunching a denim line under the name of Blå Konst. I’m really happy to see Collier Schorr taking the photographs for their new publication materials. When brands collaborate with fi

What I’ve Got: Louis Vuitton x Jeff Koons

I don’t really like Louis Vuitton or Jeff Koons so, unsurprisingly, I don’t like this collaboration. Their work, called “Masters” takes masterpieces of art and emblazons the artist’s name across their

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What I’ve Got: Rhodia Notebooks

a Rhodia creates simple notebooks that are constructed with high quality and no frills. Their price point is mid-range but not overtly expensive unlike Moleskine notebooks. The branding is appealing

What I’ve Got: Home Assistants

I remember when the Amazon Echo came out the initial reaction of everyone I spoke to was questioning why anyone would need such a thing. Initial reviews emphasized the uncomfortable uncanny-valley-esq

What I’ve Got: Medium

Medium has done more to empower the independent writer than any online publishing platform. My feed is at times inundated by clickbaity content which I think the team could do more to disincentivize,

What I’ve Got: ADV Sound Model 3

Advanced Sound is actually one of those companies that got its start off Kickstarter and managed to turn out high quality products. Their first product, the M4 was met with widespread acclaim while ma