Business
Unexpected and Personal Design
“Unexpected” and “personal” ideas are leading the design trend for 2009, particularly in this down economy. Here’s the story on the What’s new at Home blog. If the ideas are to personalize the space, create something unexpected and to keep it simple, then casart™ definitely fits the bill, as written up here recently on The Design Style Guide Blog. Here’s one of our photos below. That’s our lime colorwash casart™ on the wall. Be sure to visit our new video on YouTube showing its installation. Please vote for us! We have just entered the StartUp Nation, Leading Moms in Business Competition. The top 200 ranked businesses will get marketing exposure…
Casart™ Coverings
We have officially launched! It’s been nerve-wracking to finally get here but despite the butterflies in our stomachs we’re flying…My new product-line company, casart coverings, LLC is a partnership with my mother, Lorre Lei Jackson in New Orleans and my sister, Lindsey Wood in Denver. We have the regional parts of the nation covered, but we’re an Internet based business so we can reach the global network as well. We’re starting our product line off to feature 45 colors of three hand-painted, decorative finishes: colorwash, faux-padded harlequin and faux linen, that have been high resolutions scanned, so they are true to the original artwork, and then printed onto a canvas-like,…
Business
Getting down to Business for the New Year. Here are valuable links that discuss business as it relates to the Arts. Firstly, Business is a Creative Process because it is not always a rational process, it is closely related to similar tactics artists use in their creative art process: the step-by-step approach with out-of-the-box problem solving. The value of character and integrity are as equally important as possibly having an MBA. Business schools are focusing more on personal development and managerial skills than just business related skills. Secondly, using Design Thinking brings good marketing as described on the Matter/AnitMatter blog, “Design thinking is a process for practical, creative resolution of…
