Marketing techniques, comercial, or really bad taste

I wanted to write about this for several months, but I've been really busy lately and I didn't get the chance to post any more.
Have you noticed (mostly readers who live in Romania), that lately fashion has a very negative impact over good taste? Nowadays people aren't buying a good T-Shirt just because it has a good material, or it's warm and cozy, no, people buy the T-Shirt because it has a HUGE, golden "PUMA" logo on it... I mean really are we buying the brand or the T-Shirt...well...judging by the prices we are certainly buying the brand, but people are just looking at the brand, if it has a big Puma, Nike, or other famous brand shining, glittering on the chest it's a keeper.
Excuse me if I'm wrong, but every time I go out on the street i see countless persons wearing the same type of shirts with big shiny logos, where is fashion and good taste going to?

Always the last to know

A thing that bothers me, but I sort of got to live with it, is that I never get to hear the latest news especially in the domains I'm actually interested.
For example, I ran across some design contest that took place a few months ago http://www.filterdesign.ro, also some time ago found out that Ben Terrett of The Design Conspiracy was here to give the participants a speech about design. And I' m still not over the fact that I've missed it.
Also a problem is that events such as contests or so are not well promoted.
I did mention Ben Terrett, because his blog really inspired me, and managed to get me started blogging and posting my ideas regarding brands, design, and all.

The Joy of Crafting

I've been having this idea in my head for months, i even wrote it down as a reminder so I won't forget to transform it into reality.
And a few weeks ago I had the chance to put things in place, since the birthday of a good friend was close and I thought it would be a nice present.

So around March 2007, before going to bet the oddest idea came to me, to make a pair of earrings looking like a vinyl/record.

About a month ago I decided in making those earrings, but had no idea how, or out of what, and only had three days, the idea was that I only used things I found around the house, and managed in three days to come up with something looking decent, even nice I might say.



More pictures of the earrings here.

Older Ideas

I'll start by posting some of my older ideas,
there are only some things I've done in Photoshop hope you'll enjoy.
It all started like this.

Photo Usage Policy

1. Wherever possible I will try and use my own images.
Photos that I've taken with my camera, or things I've created in Photoshop/Fireworks or similar. You are free to use these images, but please drop me a line and please give me a little link in return. Thank you.

2. Sometimes, I might use an image from Flickr or Deviant.
If I do use a photo, I will credit the owner and provide a link back. If for any reason you don't want me to use your pictures drop me a line and I'll take it down.

Welcome

Welcome to my blog, I consider as any polite blogger the very first post should be made for welcoming visitors.

Once again this blog will be about ideas, personal, foreign, and materialized ideas, ideas that through software or mare hands got a shape.