is it really a small world or are we just thinking small?
I did it again. Its morning, i do the ritual, check the email both work and personal, check out a few links, read up a bit on shanghai blogs, ya know the basic runs. I read the trendwatching newsletter in my email, always like trendwatching, in fact ive read this one before but for someone reason i wanted to read it again. It covers some new supposed in social network sites and experiements, one of them being aSmallWorld, oh ya the social network that you have to be invited into, and approved by 5 people to get into, neat. No idea what it can offer me other than exclusivity in not telling me. Ahh so intersting.
I then hit flickr, yep still here, ooo cool pictures on this photo stream, check my group updates and think about the folks i know in flickr who blog, superverygood, oh ya, whats happening there, i check that blog out, and she’s talking about aSmallWorld. What do you call that when you come across something one minute and then unexpectedily run into it again somewhere else you didnt expect to. Is it really a small world or just a large world with many wormholes. I dunno. A bit of synchronicity maybe? Deja Vu? I think its funny the turn-around into seeing aSmallWorld in two places this morning was so quick. The web works like that though.
And this just in.. All design projects often get silly names attached to them for fun and to make sure they stand out from the rest of the projects on the pile. This latest one i’m on and going to China for is called Flying Dragon. That name in itself should be fine.
However…..
Being one to toy with names and concepts I say we need to make it bigger, more grand than just that. And the project does involve stapling. So I start calling it Crouching Stapler, Flying Dragon, a good pun on the movie of Crouching Tiger Flying Dragon. Oh a whim I go to google to find some basic clip art to support my vision of Crouching Stapler Flying Dragon.
In about 15mins of fireworks i crank out a quick tshirt concept. We’ve always talked about creating tshirts to celebrate the long hours that we wil no doubt endure on projects. Its good fun, but like much of my experiences in the workplace, most folks dont get it until ya show it. That means time and money spent on verifying yer ideas.
I show it to a few folks, ok sure it was a flightless, wingless dragon, hey thats what google gave me, he had the right face though, a good honest peachy look, and Kendra, one of our designers here, gave him some wings with a quick flick of the pen. Next I rescan that, touch it up, add the text and send a final image to my cafepress store. I put the shirt design on a few different types of shirts, and send a link to my co-workers.
This morning a package arrives with 8 of those shirts made out… lol. I honestly thought the Project Manager would order 2 max, but 8? LOL ok thats cool.