Forethink Design

The author of this photo is David Shankbone. 13 August 2006. Did you enjoy "Design your roof"? . It was watching from God's viewpoint. But look at this photo. It is the opposite way of advertising. 5 plane make a formation in the sky and make a white fog. In a dot matrix printer fashion, those planes make text characters in the sky. Though traditional sky acrobatic could makes a symbol or couple of character but it can makes 6~30 text characters. Those characters are at 7000~17000 ft above and can be seen from 30 miles away from any direction. It's really fascinating fading form of art! Design guide line: 1. Choose 6~12 characters. Because text will be fading soon. You need to select text carefully 2. Choose a good weather day. They might not refund your money because of bad weather. If I could, making text at 10 minutes before sun set after raining and cleanning with rainbow will be fantastic. 3. May be color version available soon. But don't expect Blue. REFERE...

Scene from the movie "Sweet and savage lovers" (2006) Nowadays, Getting her(his) mobile number is the start of new relationship. In this movie, the guy just asks her go out for watching movie. She accepted and propose to exchange mobile numbers. Instead of saying her number or giving a note, she gives her mobile to him and let him input his number and she makes a call to his mobile phone. Now they have connection. (Don't forget to ask name!) It is typical ritual of modern ritual for mating of Homomobilikus. Do you have any good tip for it? Following is a tip from a guy. Scenario A: Single guy named Tom find a perfect girl Nancy. What is next move? Ask her to lend her mobile. You have to tell you have some emergency issue but have no mobile phone now. (The beautiful girl must be nice as well) Make a call to yourself (Don't forget to set your mobile in silent mode) and disguise a conversation. You have to expose your profile little bit such as name, job or whatever your...

A strange and stupid thing often happen at a summer night. Last 14 Aug, It was really hot, humid night. Two teenagers have a fight at Kang nam station. (Most crowded area in Korea). Their argument was started from a bulletin board of DCInside.com where is famous for source of weird internet trend in Korea. It is started from criticizing the other guy's on fashion sense in bad words. For this stupid flash mob event, a guy makes a poster and gathered gallery take photos and distributed instantly. It attracts big media's attention as well. All major TV and news medias report about it and explain what is "Hyun-Pi"(Game player killing in real world). How can this a foolish kid fight be a big news? The movie "Fight Club" spoiled these kids or the internet community site? Interestingly, the bulleting board where they met was about "Fashion" and a smart guy makes a T shirt printed with the fight scene . Reference http://lezhin.egloos.com/2630599 SBS new...

Spaces. By Apple. OS X Leopard sneakpreview. Apple OS X Spaces is a tool to change desktop space. Actually Windows Vista also has something like that as well. But it is all about using multi spaces for an user. It is just like having multiple separated workspace at your cubicle and turn your chair to use type writer, writing a letter and drawing schematic on board. Comparing with ZUI (Zooming UI) such as Looking Glass and Microsoft's Task gallery , I have to name it as PUI (Panning UI). SO WHAT? Actually, what I'm expecting to see is rather than 'Controlling Multiple Computer for an User" or 'Multi Computer for Multi User at Same Spaces'. Imagine controlling multiple computers with Spaces in a monitor by a person. A space can be from another PC which is sharing with others or occupied for a time. I could be a great tool to control several computers by a person. Otherwise multiple people share multiple spaces together simultaneously too. Nowadays, many home ha...

This is roof of Morton Salt company ( http://www.mortonsalt.com/ ) located at Chicago. I often visit Chicago and drive through 94 Kennedy expy to go my HQ. I saw a billboard with a famous logo of Morton Salt. But I never saw or will see that company name on roof. But as you can see, you can find Morton company easily from Google map browsing. Similarly some Target stores ( http://www.target.com/gp/homepage.html/601-1447065-1372122 ) painted their roof with famous logo as well. See the link . Yes, it is new opportunity for advertisement! Actually there is not many things to read in Google maps. Here is some design guide line for roof advertisement. For advertiser: 1. Orientation: Align your company logo/name correctly. North is top and make alignment to South. 2. Size: A character should be larger than a car size. Approx. 1800mm wide. I would recommend 20M wide. It will be OK with 16~17 zoom level of Google maps. 3. Keep message simple as possible: General rule for everywhere. 4. Color:...

My favorite trouble free trouser for air travel. No rivet and no buckle. Giordano. I loved air travel. But the design of air travel system is not evolving since 70ies and even it is getting worse in terms of user experience. TSA (Transportation Security Administration) of USA announced new security procedure. No liquid or gel like product is allowed any more. As long as Laptop PC and iPods is still allowed, it's OK for me. But I just wonder it is an effective way. 911 terrorist used a simple knife you can buy in any stationery store. OK, anyway, as an experienced business traveler. I can share my tips for you. 1. Wear Jersey pants (training wear,츄리닝) rather than riveted jean with metal buckle. 2. Don't bring any sharp tools including wine opener. It's really sad for wine lover like me. So I have to buy T shaped opener every time and dump in hotel room. (But Eyeglass Repair Tools is allowed for carrying on) 3. Charge your iPod/mobile/ any electronics battery always. Often se...

I participated FGI ( Focus Group Interview ) as an observer yesterday. FGI is popular method to get feedback about new product & service. Usually client (my colleagues and me) are seating behind huge half mirror. Moderator runs Q&A conversation process with several interviewees. Actually, I hate to be seated behind the mirror. Observation room is usually packed, hot and smelly (Yes, we are eating at seat). I prefer to be moderator myself or be an assistant in same room. That's more interactive research with people and I can see all the detail of what they are doing. In some cases, we use IM (Instant messenger) to communicate with moderator. It is convenient to ask something instantly but may be a burden on smooth flow of conversation. Anyway, it is really precious time to hear people's voice directly.