Cold Fusion is a brand that promotes the craftsmanship of organic cold brew and traditional coffee. The business embraces and experiments with the new and old techniques of brewing to deliver the perfect cup. Retro inspired patterns, a caffeinated color palette and playful typography comprises the brand to communicate a fun, approachable, scientific take on coffee.
Kazoom is a fun children's beverage company with a focus on helping families live happy, healthy lives. Beverage flavors include Blue Raspberry, Kiwi, Cherry and Strawberry. The beverages have robust fruity flavors kids love with vitamins and limited sugar so parents can rest assured. The scope of the branding project included developing the identity/packaging, a monthly publication, a website and an interactive in-store kiosk. All of the Kazoom components, exemplify the company's belief in providing healthy products and fun resources parents can use.
I designed a responsive website that encompasses all of the needs for the playful company. A blog component for parents who are looking for fun activities and healthy kid friendly recipes. An online retail space for convenient purchasing. And a game center for kids to play fun learning games. Kazoom is about helping parents maintain a happy, healthy family, and this website shows their fun and playful approach. Kazoom website prototype can be viewed here.
The creation of the product mascots was a fun exploration of character design. Each little monster was based on one of the fruit beverages. So I started the character design by sketching the different fruits and playing with giving them human elements. Once the branding was done I developed the product packaging and retail bag.
When it comes to children's products, the mascots really are the stars and this was exemplified in my use of the characters in the playful packaging design. Most of the product boxes have a front opening around the characters mouth that can be pulled to get the drink packets inside. And the retail bag utilized a transparent mouth as a fun way to showcase the products within.
A major obstacle for the digital components of the campaign was developing an effective user experience. I spent a lot of time testing the user experience and redesigning the user interface to be more intuitive and easier to navigate. The solution for this involved redesigning navigation elements and rearranging certain elements. Another big element was designing the website for a responsive environment. The final components were interactive pieces that were fun, informative and easy to use.
Envy, is a clothing boutique store targeted to young women interested in trendy and fashionable clothing. As part of a rebranding campaign, I redesigned the store's logo and retail packaging. Envy's moto is to help young women stand out and be trendsetters in fashionable clothing. The new visual identity utilizes a simple yet versatile logo paired with eye catching patterns and color. The new retail bags also serve the function as advertisement for the store as it brings attention to the brand name and website. Lastly, I designed an online advertising campaign to promote their brand and specials that was targeted toward young women.
Since I was pretty far from the store's intended shopper, this design process involved a lot of consumer research. I spent a lot of time looking into their consumer base and researching their competitors. My initial concepts and color palette were all scrapped due to its youthful appeal. My original retail bag designs came off as a candy store or young girls store. The patterns I had originally used also didn't capture user's attention either. So I spent sometime studying a lot of textile/clothing patterns and concepting more ideas. After the additional research and concepting, I came upon a new color palette and patterns that stood out and had the more mature appeal I wanted. Since I was utilizing bold patterns, I kept the logo simple with a clean serif font that I tailored for the store. The balance between the bold and clean, simple elements of the branding reflect the store's approach to fashion clothing.
The goal of the advertising campaign was to increase sales by promoting their current promotions and increase brand awareness. I specifically utilized buzzwords such as "upstage" or "bold" in the ad copy to reflect the brand's fashion forward tone. Since the target consumer spends a lot of time online and connected to social media, I proposed advertising digitally. Ads would strategically run on popular blogs and websites that appeal to the consumer.
715 Restaurant is a trendy, European-style neighborhood restaurant and bar located in Downtown Lawrence, Kansas that offers simple, fresh, handmade Central Italian cuisine at an affordable price. During the Fall and Winter, 715 restaurant makes a shift in their delectable offerings, as they make use of freshly harvested ingredients of the season. To celebrate the seasons and their new arrivals, I designed a seasonal brand experience campaign that complimented their current identity. The redesign went hand-in-hand with the branding and packaging for its new microbrewery, 715 Brewery.
The designs for the seasonal campaign began with 715's stated commitment of producing organic, fresh handmade food. I wanted to explore the idea of organic and handmade through the visual appearance of hand illustration and lettering. To reach the end goal I played with hand drawn brush lettering/illustrations, handmade ink stamping and digitally designed/treated graphics. It was also important that packaging materials used were environmentally conscious. Thus I utilized biodegradable paper bags and chipboard boxes instead of plastic or styrofoam.


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Episode One-Hundred and Fifty-Nine: Joe Capobianco 0
Joe Capobianco & Jime Litwalk have been at the forefront of new school tattooing since the mid-90s. On their way to a tattoo convention in North Carolina, they decided to stop and visit the NLJBS studios for a marathon podcast fueled by whiskey, memories and bullshit. Nick, Joe and Jime are joined by the incomparable Andrew Conner and the quartet went over everything from Long island tattooing in the early 90s to the new school aesthetic in today's scene. Hell yeah.
A very special Shop Talk brings this one in over four hours as Gary Gearhardt joins Nick, Andrew and Porter to discuss some fine tattoos that have been done and displayed on the 'Gram & shared around shops all over the world. School's in.

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The Acudor LT-4000 is a lightweight aluminium access door for walls and ceilings. With a durable design and lightweight components, access to large openings in walls and ceilings is made easy. The mitred aluminium frame provides an architecturally pleasing appearance. The aluminium door panel is lined with 3/4" polystyrene insulation. The all aluminium construction of the LT-4000 is ideal for exterior applications, and also those specific interior applications where corrosion or moisture is a concern. Gasketing between the door and frame is provided to ensure an airtight fit.


Although in both the situation, you are going to have same results. Still, the selection is in your hand. You can select one option for the invoice financing.
It is one of the forms of the invoice financing that provides the company to sell all their account receivable that will help you with increasing the working capital. With this company can get liquidity with which he can carry on all the functioning of the business smoothly which will help you with paying all the expenses.
Factoring is the easy way to get the finance. The major part is lending the asset to any of the trustworthy clients. Generally, invoice factoring is used by the big businesses or the multinationals to arrange the huge fund for their business.
All these transactions of the invoice factoring are done so that company can sell the entire invoice by doing the payment in two installments. The first installment should cover 80% and remaining installment must be paid later on. An invoice usually tested before funding them. Factoring lines are basically based on the sales.
Commercial loans are basically the debt based arrangement within the financial institution and the business. They will help you with funding with the capital expenditures help you with paying all the operational cost.
While the commercial loans are basically the short term funds providing you with the best financial institution and the bank as they provide you with the renewable commercial loans. They will allow you with funding through the funds which will help you with covering all the operational expenses. Business often wants to have the renewable commercial loan that will help them with obtaining the resources that need to handle the large seasonal orders.
There are many of the advantages that you are going to have with the invoice loans. With help of this, you can cover all the cost and expenses of the business. These are basically helpful for the large business that will help them with covering all their payments.


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TimeGate: "Companies 100% focused on retail are in for a rude awakening"
Digital distribution will reach critical mass - and retail-only data isn't representative of industry's health
News by Alec Meer Contributor
Published on Nov. 8, 2010
The online distribution critical mass is coming, claims TimeGate Studios boss Adel Chaveleh.
"It's just a matter of time," the CEO of the Section 8, Kohan and FEAR expansions developer told GamesIndustry.biz in an interview published today.
"I think anybody would bet money on that. The momentum of online is only going to pick up, there's so many reasons for it to go that way."
On the many doom and gloom stories that have dogged the games industry of late, he echoed recent sentiments by the likes of the NPD group that retail figures were not painting the complete picture.
"I think somebody would be a fool to just look exclusively at that data to see how the interactive industry is doing. With social and mobile and everything else that's blowing up now, you can't look at just that sliver."
When asked as to whether publishers in general seemed ready for that shift, he claimed that "I think a lot of people are... It's on everybody's radar. But it probably was in the music industry too.
"So I can't say for sure what their internal strategies are, I can only see from a consumer's perspective where their focuses are, and it's clearly still at retail."
Referring to the rise of Netflix against the decline of traditional movie rental chains, he felt that "companies that are 100 per cent focused on retail right now are in for a rude awakening in the near future."
Chaveleh also perceived a trend in publishers' attitudes towards their titles. "It's a cyclical thing, where the big publishers say 'oh we're going to do nothing but internal development' and there's a big new IP push.
"Then a couple of big flops happen there, so they say they're getting out of internal development, shutting down studios, and then that yields the next round of start-up companies, because there are all these people who got laid off.
"Then they're making new IPs, there's a couple of big hits so everyone's into that again."
For the full interview with Adel Chaveleh, in which he discusses why TimeGate has moved into self-publishing, the importance of making games the studio wants to make rather than to keep the lights on, and the risks of both independence and publishing partnerships, please click here.
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A 10-year veteran of scribbling about video games, Alec primarily writes for Rock, Paper, Shotgun, but given any opportunity he will escape his keyboard and mouse ghetto to write about any and all formats.


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COSATU statement on the decision by Multi-choice not to renew their contract with ANN7
The Congress of South African Trade Unions has noted with concern the decision by Multi-choice not to renew their contract with television channel ANN7 because of their alleged failure to perform due diligence. The federation finds this decision suspicious, hypocritical and deeply regrettable because it will result in ANN7 possibly retrenching some of their workers because of loss of revenue. We have reasons to suspect that Multi-choice's decision was conveniently political and that they succumbed to the pressure that has been exerted by a litany of lobbyists.
Workers livelihoods are now being compromised because some people and lobbyists are waging their narrow battles. Despite all the furore surrounding ANN7 and Multi-choice ,we caution everyone to remember that accusation is not proof and that conviction depends upon evidence and due process of law. We should all guard against allowing speculation and paranoia to drive us into an age of unreason.
COSATU has butted heads with the management and owners of ANN7 on more than one occasion. In fact the COSATU 12th National Congress voted ANN7 as the "Worst Employer". We have also strongly disagreed with what we considered to be their slanted and sometimes outrageous coverage. Indeed, we have despaired at their propensity to push outlandish conspiracy theories promoted by some paid up eccentrics masquerading as serious commentators.
Despite all of this, we have defended and continue to defend their right to exist because we proclaim ourselves, as indeed we are, the defenders of freedom. The federation deeply resent this emerging fallacy of composition, where it has become easy to dismiss or attempt to shutdown an entire organisation as unsuitable on the grounds of one or two components we don't like or disagree with.
COSATU shall be engaging with its affiliate the Communication Workers Union about this latest decision by Multi-choice. We shall defend the interests of the workers and also deal with this lingering and unresolved issue of the monopoly that is enjoyed by Multi-choice. Multi-choice will continue to do as they please because they are a monopoly but this cannot go unchallenged. If there was an illegal business relationship between these two organisations , we need to allow the law enforcement agencies to investigate and expose that without jumping to conclusions.
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Maula Jatt (Punjabi:  مولا جٹ), español: El más grande de los Jatt es una película de la Pakistán. Es producida, dirigida y escrita por Younis Malik con las actuaciones de Acción idioma Punjabi de Pakistán, película musical dirigida por Younis Malik y producido por Sarwar Bhatti. Película protagonizada por el actor Sultán Rahi en el papel principal y con Aasia y Mustafa Qureshi como el villano Noori Natt. Maula Jatt era un clásico, una película que recibió elogios de la crítica y popular. Tiene un estatus de culto en Pakistán. Tal fue el impacto de la película que fue copiado por los cineastas en Pakistán, donde se les dio varias películas nombres con el sufijo "Jat". Esta película pertenece a un género que representa la cultura rural de Punjab. El éxito de esta película marcan la tendencia de las películas de acción siendo popular en Pakistán y cimentó Sultan Rahi como héroe principal de Lollywood El rodaje duró nueve años a un precio de $2.000.000.Kalia (1984)

Reparto
 Sultán Rahi - Maula Jatt
 Aasia - "Mukkho"
 Mustafa Qureshi - Noori Natt
 Seema - "Daani"
 Kaifee - "Bala Gadi"
 Chakori - "Darro"
 Asad Bukhari -
 Rangeela -
 Adeeb -
 Ilyas Kashmiri -
 Shakeel -

Historia
La película es una secuela no oficial de la película de 1975 Wehshi Jatt. Sí Wehshi Jatt se inspiró en un Urdu jugar "Gandasa" escrito por Ahmed Nadeem Qasmi que representa un feudo sangriento en Gujranwala en el contexto de Punjab rural. Tras la resolución de disputa familiar de Maula en Wehshi Jatt, Maula ha renunciado a la violencia y está a cargo de la administración de la paz de su pueblo y sus pueblos de los alrededores. La película comienza con Makha Natt persiguiendo a una chica a través de aldeas. Ella pide ayuda pero tan pronto como la gente oye que está siendo perseguido por Makha, el hermano de Noori Natt le preguntan a salir y no comparte su desgracia con ellos. Ella llega a la aldea de Maula y está protegida por hermana- de Maula en-ley Taani. Maula Jatt llega y decreta que si Makha quiere evitar el destino de ser asesinado por su "Gandasa 'él debe casarse con la chica con la que muy ha deshonrado y también casarse con su hermana fuera al hermano de la chica. La niña no tiene familia lo Maula ordena Makha para casarse con su hermana a su amigo Moodha. Cuando Makha regresa a casa para planear su venganza, su hermana Daro enfureció al escuchar lo que él ha aceptado lo mata. El clan Natt ahora tratar de vengar la humillación que Maula Jutt les ha causado mientras Maula Jutt intenta que su decisión se hace cumplir y se le da la justicia.

Impacto
La película terminó continuamente 130 semanas en Shabistan Cine Lahore y combina 310 semanas en su primera carrera. Esta película fue un éxito en la década de 1980 y dio lugar a una serie de secuelas, convirtiéndose en la primera franquicia no oficial siempre exitoso para un título Lollywood. El éxito de Maula Jat generó Maula Jat tey Noorie Nut, así como Maula Jat en Londres y sigue influyendo en la cultura popular. Varias producciones como la obra Jatt y Bond 2002 utilizan Maula Jat como su "inspiración". Ahora Pakistán

Música

Notas
Behram Daku
Ik Madari
Wehshi Gujjar
Malanga
Achoo 302

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Hate-crime victim, Sajan Singh, recounts his attack
by Andrea Pineda-Salgado April 26, 2022 October 14, 2022
By Andrea Pineda-Salgado
April 12 will be remembered for the violence that occurred in two communities just a few miles apart. A subway attack occurred on a crowded N train in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, injuring more than 20, some critically. That same morning, two Sikh men were brutally attacked in the Richmond Hill neighborhood of Queens, which has a large Sikh population. The two men were attacked minutes apart and another Sikh man had also been assaulted nine days earlier.
Sajan Singh. Photo: Andrea Pineda-Salgado
Sajan Singh, 58, was one of these men who was beaten, robbed and had his turban ripped off.
Singh first came to the United States from Punjab, India, in 1997. He worked in construction in Punjab but left to escape the violence that often plagued his town. When he came to the U.S. he settled in Richmond Hill because he heard it was home to a large Sikh and Punjabi community. Singh said he was happy; he could make an honest living in construction and put his kids in good schools.
After more than 23 peaceful years in New York City, his life changed on April 12 when he became one of the three Sikh men who brutally attacked on the same block. Singh was on his way to Lefferts Boulevard to catch a ride with his boss to work when someone attacked him from behind with a punch.
"There was another guy that came, and he started punching me too," Singh says. "He said 'I'm going to shoot him. I'm going to shoot him.' I got scared and just fell to the ground while they were punching."
Japneet Singh, 27, community advocate and activist at the Sikh Coalition, says his community is in shock.
"This is a traumatic time for our community, especially because all three situations happened, two blocks away from our Gurdwara, our temple," he says. "For these attacks to happen in the area that's called the capital of the Punjabi community [in New York City] is just very disheartening and the entire community just very saddened."
As for Singh, it is an incident he will never forget.
"I thought I might die at that moment. I was questioning 'Why me?' I thought I was going to die" he says.
Why him? Japneet says the answer was clear: because of his identity.
"They were not stopped to get robbed," he says. "They were attacked from the back and once they were on the ground defenseless they were attacked more and were assaulted. All three turbans came out in all these situations. Singh's beard was pulled. If you look at these attacks they were brutal, brutal attacks."
Singh suffered internal injuries, as well as injuries on his head, eye and ears. He recieved medical attention from an ambulance that was called for Gulzar Singh, 45, who had been attacked just minutes before.
"I just hope that I can gain freedom again. Right now I feel trapped. The reason I left India is to escape lawlessness and now I am a victim here of that," Singh says.
Singh and the rest of the victims are still living in fear as the suspected perpetrators were detained but then released. Suspects Vernon Douglas, 19, and Hezekiah Coleman, 20 were arraigned, released and are expected to appear in court on May 25. This infuriated the Sikh community as it is rumored that one of the men lives in Richmond Hill.
"We cannot allow people that commit these kinds of hateful acts out and then literally the next day, [release them.,]" Japneet says. "It's very concerning because if these people live in the community and our elders are walking up and down these blocks every single day, that's something that we need to be mindful of."
Japneet explained that the Sikh youth of Richmond Hill are doing what they can to protect their elders. They started neighborhood patrols and programs to accompany elders as they go about their daily routines.
"Our elders suppressed these kinds of issues because they were very head down, work hard, pay your taxes, put your kids to good schools kind of community. I think that's how a lot of immigrant communities are in general, but we're the second generation. Enough is enough. We're not going to take this kind of nonsense when we feel like we need to speak up, we're going to speak up," he says.
To help the Sikh community in Richmond Hill, donate to The Sikh Coaltion.
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