Tuesday, June 24, 2008

Got Muda?

I don’t think anyone can argue against the concept of Lean Manufacturing, given today’s economy. Lean is about doing more with less: less time, inventory, space, people, and money.

Lean is about speed and getting it right the first time. It is a systematic approach to identifying and eliminating waste – or Muda – through continuous improvement – making training a necessary component.

I want to share a comment I recently received from a medium-sized commercial printer embracing Lean: “One of my primary responsibilities is to ensure that operating procedures are documented and our prepress employees are sufficiently trained in all applicable software. We are just now starting to embrace Lean Manufacturing, which puts a huge emphasis on investing in our employees through training so they are more efficient and produce error free work… Quite an overwhelming task without seeking the help of a company such as yours.”

If you company is still deciding whether or not to implement Lean, check out this guide.

Then, know that this Lean Green Training Machine stands by your side to make your efforts a success.

Thursday, June 19, 2008

Take On Me, Take Me On

...we are not responsible for your painful 80's flashbacks...


OK, you've seen how to make your own sketch images quickly and easily in Photoshop. Now, check out the original inspiration from the 80's: A-Ha's "Take on Me".


A Tip-of-the-Hat to Warner Bros. Music and Members Only Jackets.

Wednesday, June 11, 2008

Submit Your Own Coke Bottle Design

Coca-Cola is following Pepsi’s winter promotion by allowing anyone to design and submit their own Coke bottle, all in preparation for the 2008 Summer Olympics.

It’s really fun to watch your own bottle come alive, so I recommend you spend a few minutes at Design the World a Coke.

There are some awesome submissions already, so be sure and check out the gallery. Here’s a recent submission that I really like.

There are commissioned designs as well at http://we8.coca-cola.com/index.jsp.

Tuesday, June 3, 2008

Behold a Better Online Pic Viewer


Imageshack, Photobucket, Flickr, MySpace... The list of online photo galleries goes on and on. Forget clunky, unintuitive searching through those pic sites and use PicLens. PicLens is a great add-on for Mozilla Firefox (it runs inside your Firefox browser). Just click the PicLens arrow inside a pic of your photo library and PicLens takes you away to a better world of online image navigation.

PicLens
A Tip-of-the-Hat to PicLens and cooliris.
 

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