BUSHIDO: Protective Packaging

I've made a decision regarding the aesthetic style of the product range to be a little more progressive, with a reference to classic Japanese print and visual particularities rather than pay more of a complete homage, as this has already been done and continues to be done.My original idea for the packaging for all the product collections was for a wooden box, with some sort of slide lid. I'm getting away from this idea now ,I feel it's too much of...

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Bushido: The Art of Peace

Looking into the kind of purpose and target audience for The Art of Peace, a book which has been a great help for my Bushido projectExample of a quote from the book:"As soon as you concern yourself with the "good" and "bad" of your fellows, you create an opening in your heart for maliciousness to enter. Testing, competing with, and criticizing others weakens and defeats you."__Reviews and quotes"You do not have to be an Aikido practitioner or martial...

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Bushido: The Art of War & Business

Following on from the post on my DP blog about The Art of War by Sun Tzu in fact being a well used and established guide on business and other walks of life, I'm looking deeper into it and seeing just which kinds of people use these books on the wider theme of Bushido.Found this article on Business Insiderhttp://www.businessinsider.com/the-art-of-war-sun-tzu-2011-5?op=1////////////The Art of War - Sun TzuAsk a dozen people to name the best business...

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BBC: Moving Image

At the moment me and Eve plan on working on the boards first and then doing the video, rather than the other way round so the video is more of an extra luxury which we can put our all into without worrying about running out of time.Some of these videos especially the HTC Hero advert and Apple advert have given us early conceptual ideas for our first impact boardWe really want to emphasise the notion of being able to swipe through each BBC page and the idea of consistency in design and big on horizontal movement. Obviously looking at existing adverts...

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UI: Facebook redesign

"A conceptional and systematic design approach encouraging user behaviour and a greater control of data within a responsive grid."This redesign of Facebook by designer Fred Nerby is very relevant to the BBC brief me and Eve are working on, I love how, again, as we're trying to achieve, a full screen and flexible experience with a grid like aesthetic style merging app sensibilities with web.  Facebook Prototype - Conceptional Approach from Fred...

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