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Amazing guest lecturers. from Entrepreneurial Design Class. School of Visual Arts.

Many thanks to our heroes, Gary & Christina! 

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As minnie wishes

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entrepreneur design class 2012

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You have an inherent need to solve problems, visually and conceptually. There is enormous value in this, but you may be misplacing your talents.

The internet, at this time in history, is the greatest client assignment of all time. The Western world is porting itself over to the web in mind and...

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Eat Local, Eat Fresh

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"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye."

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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Time taken for 50 million users

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Have you ever seen a subway station in New York with all these discarded MetroCards on the floor like this photo? Okay, maybe not this bad, but I definitely have seen a station floors with lots of discarded MetroCards. So My teammate Myn Kang and I decided to tackle this problem while we do...

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Fairness vs. Growth

You may have heard this political campaigning, "if we raise taxes on the wealthy the economy can't grow as fast," and I was WTF?

So I did little research. Apparently taxes were way higher on high incomes in recent decades after World War 1. Yet still the American economy grew faster than ever. Whenever we tax wealthy, the economy actually went up. Bill Clinton raised taxes on the wealthy in the 1990s and the economy produced faster job and higher wages than Geroge Bush, who cuts taxes on the rich. 

I think it is a good thing. If you raise taxes on the wealthy, they will finance more investments in various things that would need for growth of nation. Also, if wealthy pay more taxes, the middle class could pay less, which would make them have more purchasing power to boost up economy. If they spend, the factory will run, and workers get paid, and they will go out and spend, and the economy just starts to rolling itself.

Sometimes it is easy to think that riches have authority over this nation. But remember, we are part of this nation, and thus we can make bigger impact than riches if we gather our forces. 

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Reflection on Foxconn Video

Few days ago, I watched a short 3-min video documenting how Ipad is made in Foxconn Factory located in China. Foxconn is a chinese electronics manufacturing factory where many of famous electronics are manufactured including Ipad, Iphone, Kindle, Playstation 3 and Wii. In the video, they explain briefly how Ipad is manufactured and how the work condition is. It is certainly above average of chinese labor condition.

In the video, there is a part people waiting outside of the factory everyday to get a job. Nearly 500 people were waiting. Labor workers in Foxconn factory get $14 USD a day. It is still higher than average chinese job and most importantly, Foxconn pay them on time. 

So I thought about consumption. According to research, with our current levels of consumption, the earth can only sustain about 5 billion people. If everyone consumes like Americans do, we can only sustain about 1.4 billion people. Current world population? 7 Billion! 

So what can we do about that? First, we can shed our consumer culture. We live in a culture that stimulates more and more consumption. Think about why Apple release new Ipad every year even though the old models are  perfectly functional.  Second, we can build a infrastructure where sharing is more valued. In some cities, sharing system, such as Bike-sharing, encourage people to share within community and hold off consuming pattern. So borrow rather than buy.

I'm sure it is very difficult to shed our consumer culture. But it is about time to try.

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US (Taken with instagram)

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This is my metrocard!!!! You can get it on www.metrofitter.com (Taken with instagram)

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