After stumbling upon two nearly identical articles from Yahoo’s Shine and CNN about an upward rising trend in women’s footwear, I began to have a deeper conversation with myself about design trends in general. A 19 year old student, who teeters around her college campus in 7 inch heels, is quoted to glibly proclaim “Fashion…
Archive for April, 2010
The Art of Heeling Your Designs
Thursday, April 29th, 2010Swing for the Fences!
Monday, April 26th, 2010In between belting out some blues on his harmonica and coming up with some brilliant ideas, my first creative director, Don Wade would always tell me to “swing for the fences.” At the time, it always made me nervous as hell because being an avid baseball fan, I know that guys who go up there…
Rock documentary has big hairy lesson for marketers
Monday, April 19th, 2010“Daddy, how come I don’t have good hair?”
This question is posed by Lola, the tiny daughter of comedian and filmmaker Chris Rock, in his documentary about the Black hair industry, Good Hair
In his film, Rock shines a light on the hair industry’s damaging and sometimes dangerous styling products, expectations created by the entertainment business and…
