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This column is authored by Karan Sharma, Manager – Communications & Strategy, Shamoor
Startups having their own products (or offering services) have the raw materials and talent needed for it and are also backed by the technology run by a few technicians; so overall, producing a good product or rendering good services is something that can be achieved with somewhat more ease; but the catch remains in getting your brand popular! The most important aspect here lies in understanding the audience and ultimately reaching out to your targeted consumers. So, the most important aspect of brand building is to market your product or service by contriving a strategy for it. Reaching out to the target audience is the ultimate mantra that decides the success or failure of any startup. You might have the best product in the market, but if you remain unaware of the techniques to showcase the same to your audience, then that product or service remains overlooked; and sadly, unused.
How to Go Viral On Social Media Is Something That Has Really Gone Viral!
Marketing in its very nascent stages involves understanding the product or service and delving into the details including price etc. Then the marketing matures with the identification of a proper channel through which the product or service would reach to the target audience; and finally, designing and implementing all the promotional activities required for selling. Since ages, the marketing gurus have been chalking out ways and constantly looking for strategies to reach more audience in the shortest possible time. The Internet has really revolutionized this search. It has proved as a blessing in reaching to the the maximum number of people in the minimum amount of time. Every business today in the competitive market requires a strong online presence to sell its product or service. The procedure of digital marketing has really benefitted most of the start-ups and small businesses to come into the limelight and expand their brand recognition effectively.
What Is a Brand, Its Identity, and Its Components?
Brand is when your business gets its hallmark stamp; when it is known by its name and not by the offerings in terms of products or services. A brand becomes an ultimate recognition of the product or service and also of the company as a whole. A brand publicly distinguishes one product or service from another in its category. Any company actually takes the duty of producing a distinguished product with several distinct and unique features or providing innovative services. It, in fact, determines the way how a company or organization works to identify its product or service in the market surviving and surpassing its competitors. It is the representation of the picture how the company wants to be portrayed in the market and wishes to be perceived. A brand also becomes unique due to the identity it carries. Brand identity comprises of a few components, which, if created in the right way, can fetch effective results for your business. They are
- Brand Graphics: Visual appearance gives your brand the much-deemed recognition. It includes colours, graphics, typography, logos, symbols, photography, design & online dynamics.
- Brand Content: It includes the description of the brand that is going to inform your audience about the product and its unique features.
- Brand Style: This actually carries the unique style that sets you apart from the other brands in the market. The language, the style, and the tone of the voice of the brand – all fall under this category.
Is Brand Identity Only for Companies or Can Individuals Too Avail from It?
The term, BRAND, has expanded its range and now it is not only limited to big and small companies but almost every working individual today has his own brand. Building your brand identity will actually guide you to have an identity of yours, which people would associate you with or remember you for!
Building a Fabulous Brand Is Easy; Thanks to Internet / Social Media
Be it for companies or for any individual, a brand identity can now be so easily developed, just because of the presence of the internet and/or social media. Thanks to this technology boon that has made this job possible with just a few clicks and techniques clubbed together. Getting maximum people know about your brand without much hassle is now possible with the help of Internet.
Steps for Building Your Brand Online
You may be a great company having a great product or service, but at the end of the day, your online presence defines your business. So, building your brand online has become highly important these days to affix your position in the market.
Following these few steps, you can create an effective online presence in a very short time.
- Critically determine your target audience
- Define a branding mission statement for your product or service
- Research on the existing brands within your niche
- Outline the key features that your brand is offering
- Create a logo as well as a tagline for your product or service
- Create an attractive website
- Create blogs for increasing traffic on your website
- Use social media websites for brand promotion
- Build reviews and testimonials for augmenting credibility
- Also, do offline promotions for boosting your online presence
The role of a PR/Marketing Agency in It!
These steps may seem a cakewalk, but they can turn out to be an onus task. Try taking this service from a team of expert and experienced minds, who round-the-clock research on new and effective techniques to keep your brand on the top lists online. PR firms use 360-degree marketing and strategic branding that works on this mission to provide an excellent online presence for businesses in every existing vertical. They understand how fatal it is for a company today is to have no online presence, especially for start-ups and small businesses.
A professional agency can provide you with a plethora of services including domain name registration, web hosting, content development, and dynamic & responsive user interface services with effective results – all in just a small amount, which would be a true value for your earnest money spent on this significant task.
Any of the top-notch PR agencies like the Global leaders Edelman and Weber Shandwick; their European counterparts MSL Group & Media Consulta International or traditionally acclaimed champions like Ogilvy PR or even the fresh in the league like Shamoor with their 360 degree marketing and strategic branding approach can efficiently build your brand making sure that your reach escalates and intensifies in no time. They provide experienced services at very affordable rates so that every company can have a notable online presence and increase their business. Starting right from conceptualization, design & development of company branding, official websites creation, and social media platforms to event planning & activation – all aspects are handled carefully by these professionals. On one hand, the industry leaders like H+K Strategies come with a backing of 90 plus years of experience, and on the other hand, the next-gen agencies like Shamoor work ardently and diligently on all the existing social media platforms for marketing and brand building.
It may seem easy for anyone to create a BRAND. There are two ways to go for it: either create it yourself or take professional help. Choose your pick.


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To choose a Christmas gift which keeps on giving, check out The Gift Charity Bazaar, on November 24, from 11:00-16:00 at Canadian International School. The Gift, which brings brings together unique and creative gift items from all over the city in one location, is in it's fifth year. A percentage of every sale goes to charity, and last year The Gift raised over 55,000RMB for local Beijing Charities.
This year the bazaar will feature gifts by Tai Tai, ceramics by Soul Collection; a 798 gallery, a new line of jewelry by Starfish Project (a local charity), artwork by local artists, quirky Beijing inspired Christmas cards, unique children's apparel by Little
Animals Knitwear and more.
Guests can grab lunch and snacks in the cafe area with eats by Peter's Tex-Mex, Punjabi Indian, Sweets by Bread of Life Bakery and Lollipop bakery and more.
There'll be live festive music all day, with performances from Avodah, Eluvia and The China Conservatory of Music. And families can join in the fun with activities and crafts brought to you by beijingkids and The New City Center.
Check out the complete list of bazaars in Beijing here.
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Introduction: Man and object
From the first stone tool to the IPod, humans and human ancestors have a likely two million-year-old relationship with technology. Thus, it is hard to study humans without also acknowledging the objects that they create and live with. Yet objects really don't get nearly the attention and study that people do, especially in the field of social sciences. It seems that as humans become more engaged than ever with technology in the present day, there has been a recent focus on the role and possible application of design thinking to other areas. Similarly, trends in the design world are looking to apply a greater understanding of people in order to improve the overall design of objects. Green thinking and sustainable design are also quick to jump on the design theory bandwagon. A current exhibit at the UN in conjunction with the Cooper Hewitt Design Museum exemplifies these recent trends which are summed up in such terms as "social design," "design anthropology" or "sustainable development." Entitled "Design for the other 90%" it "explores a growing movement among designers to design low-cost solutions for the 'other 90%'" (Design for the other 90%, 2011) who do not have access to the technology most people in wealthy countries take for granted. Similarly-themed projects are found locally as well; Sustainable South Bronx "seeks to inspire a generation of South Bronx eco-conscious designers and inventors" (Sustainable South Bronx, 2011). These recent projects seem to have no losers, but just what are the underlying theories from which they frame their work?
This paper is an inquiry into the role objects play in human life and looks at the two following theoretical frameworks which integrate design and anthropology.
(1) Using design to solve social problems, especially in cross-cultural context
(2) Applying anthropological techniques, theories, and understanding to the design process in order to create a better (more usable) product.
As people seek to solve social problems through the design process much is overlooked in the fact that people are engaged in design all the time, in fact, design is simply one example of a type of educative activity, such as communication, apprenticeship, or any other.
Everything is Education?
Studying education and how people come to know is one of the cornerstones of the social science fields. Varenne (2007) has argued that education is something that people are engaged in all the time, during all stages of life, and in all interactions and communications.
[Cremin] showed that education is something that happens "in many institutions." We argue that education is essential to the development of these institutions, their integration, and their change. Education is fundamental to sociability and is ubiquitous in the everyday life of all human beings… Each historical act—new technology, new governmental policy, or natural disaster—produces new forms of knowledge and ignorance that require changes in routines, even by those with the greatest interest in maintaining what will never be a status quo (Varenne, 2007).
New and changing circumstances will create new opportunities and need for a new knowledge. This paper is concerned with what this framing of education might tell us about the design process, especially in circumstances where design is being called upon to improve lives and solve social ills.
History of Social Design from Design Perspectives
Victor Papandek, a seminal design theorist, critiques design from the point of view of a designer. He argues that,
All men are designers; design is basic to human activity. The planning and patterning of any act towards a desired, foreseeable end constitutes a design process…Design is also cleaning and reorganizing a desk drawer, pulling an impacted tooth, baking an apple pie, choosing sides for a back-lot baseball game, and educating a child (Papanek 1984).
Ultimately, he says that "Design is the conscious effort to impose meaningful order" (Papanek 1984). He offers a very broad and encompassing view of design as something engaged by all people; design is not limited to the work of architects or graphic designers. This idea is analogous to the theme of everything is education (Varenne, 2007). He even goes so far as to say that "all design is education of a sort." His seminal work in design theory offers a call for a responsible and socially conscious design. The rippling effects of his ideas can be found in design discourse even today, however there are some ideas which are dated and conflicting with anthropological discourses. He says, "design is a luxury enjoyed by a small clique who form the technological, moneyed, and cultural 'elite' of each nation" (1984). This would seem to contradict his first idea that all men are designers who are engaged in design all the time. Further he argues that "basic shelters for American Indians and the Lapp populations of Norway, Sweden and Finland-and shelters for all men poised at the edge of an alien environment need design and discovery" (1984). This statement seems to mean that shelters for American Indians are not designed, which many would argue against. He proposes a solution in which designers might travel to a foreign place and train a team of local designers who would then educate their own "communities." It is clear he doesn't come out of an anthropological background and some of his ideas speak of a bygone era, but the idea that I would like to take from him is the purest idea that all men are designers, involved in design as an ongoing activity.
Papanek was not the only designer to argue that design is a broad and encompassing idea which includes ways of thinking and organizing.
In 1946, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy argued at a conference on the future of industrial design as a profession, sponsored by the Museum of Modern Art in New York, that design "is an attitude which everyone should have; namely the attitude of the planner-whether it is a matter of family relationships or labor relationships or the producing of an object of utilitarian character or of free art work, or whatever it may be. This is planning, organizing, designing" (Moholgy-Nagy as cited in Margolin, 2002).
Hungarian Bauhaus professor Moholy-Nagy noted that design is way of solving problems which spills out into fields other than those traditionally considered design fields, such as social organization and network study.
Design Anthropology and Social Design Critiques
Contemporary theorists of the role of design in the social sciences are critical of the power relationships implicit in efforts of "social design" and "design for development." Elizabeth Tunstall, former Professor of Design Anthropology at University of Illinois at Chicago, defines design anthropology as "an interdisciplinary field that seeks to understand the role of design artifacts and processes in defining what it means to be human (e.g., human nature)" (Tunstall, 2008). In the lecture entitled, "Design Anthropology, Indigenous Knowledge, and the Decolonization of Design," she expresses concern that as design moves away from aesthetics and towards design for development and social design there is a danger in assuming that people don't have their own solutions for problems. She is critical of the idea that "design can save the world" and she compares it to a kind of intellectual colonization of other people. Even research on "indigenous peoples," she says is problematic as it can take the form of stealing knowledge and similarly implies that people do not have the solutions to their own problems. Speaking to an audience of designers, she acknowledges that trends in design have recently started to engage with anthropological questions, such as "what does it mean to be human?" and "how can we improve the human condition?" She cautions at the same time, however, that it might "also be moving closer to some of the mistakes that anthropology has made in the past" (Tunstall 2008). Design anthropology falls under the application of anthropology to the design process in order to better understand the relationship between man and artifact. Tunstall's background in anthropology makes her quick to realize the implicit meaning in trying to solve 'other' people's problems through design.
Others have similarly noted the recent focus on applying anthropological techniques to solve design problems. Arora (2010) says that current trends in technology design and research place anthropologists and sociologists at the forefront in trying to examine "culture" and its intersecting role with technology. Also, "ethnography allows for a deeper exploration of human activity, connecting it to broader social ecology within which cultures, cyber and otherwise contest, circulate and cooperate" (Arora 2010). Ethnography is not only used to study human technology, but technology's role in the construction of human experience.
Also, Hess (1995) makes the case that the effects of new technology on Third-World groups are insufficiently understood. Basically, studying technology in anthropology is not new; what is new is that technology is no longer seen as a tool but as a social construction process (Hess, 1995 as cited in Arora, 2010)
Thus, the most recent theorists of design anthropology argue that objects are participants in the construction of social experience. Arora (2010) ultimately argues that "ethnography examines the admixture of people, artifacts and techniques that make up the technosocial event." This idea relates to Latour's (2007) argument that objects have agency for interaction with humans, mentioned below.
Objects have Agency
By placing technology in its social context, we can begin to see how an object might interact with a person. Latour (2007) argues that if we assume that action is not limited to intentioned, meaningful action (by humans), then we can see that objects also have agency, as they have possibility to act.
If action is limited a priori to what 'intentional,' 'meaningful' humans do, it is hard to see how a hammer, a basket, a door closer, a cat, a rug, a mug, a list, or a tag could act…By contrast, if we stick to our decision to start from the controversies about actors and agencies, then anything that does modify a state of affairs by making a difference if an actor-or, if it has not figuration yet, an actant (Latour, 2007).
If we accept his argument that inanimate objects also have the ability to act, it opens up a whole new space in which to think about the interaction between humans and non-human objects. Non-human objects would not be limited to simple tools, either, but would include a whole range of interactive technologies, and also institutions which are also inanimate, but with which humans interact regularly. In effect Latour is arguing for a study of "interactions" rather than specific actors. Others have also noted the shift from studying actors to actions in order to understand communication (Arora 2010). Latour elaborates on this idea here:
It is true that the force exerted by a brick unto another brick, the spin of a wheel onto an axis, the balance of a lever onto a mass, the gearing down of a force through a pulley, the effect of fire on phosphorus, all of these modes of action seem to pertain to categories so obviously different from the one exerted by a 'stop' sign on a cyclist or that of a crowd over an individual mind that it seems perfectly reasonable to put material and social entities on two different shelves . Reasonable but absurd, once you realize that any human course of action might weave together in a matter of minutes, for instance, a shouted order to lay a brick, the chemical connection of cement with water, the force of a pulley unto a rope with a movement of the hand, the strike of a match to light a cigarette offered by a co-worker, etc. (Latour, 2007).
If we take this idea that objects have agency into the context of social design, we can begin to see the underlying critique of development theory. Specifically, objects are cultural "things" and perhaps form their own cultural institutions, much like education policy, the World Bank, or the UN. Within the institution of these objects, we can find implicit power relations, values, norms, etc. Therefore, the same critiques that apply to development agencies must also apply to object institutions. Simply put, if one is compelled to interact with the IMF it is no different than if one is compelled to interact with, say, Dell computers.
De Certeau (1984) relates objects to their role in society, and that they too are bounded by cultural laws and codes.
Glasses, cigarettes, shoes, etc., reshape the physical "portrait" in their own ways. Is there a limit to the machinery by which a society represents itself in living beings and makes them its representations? Where does the disciplinary apparatus end that displaces and corrects, adds or removes things from these bodies, malleable under the instrumentation of so many laws? To tell the truth they, they become bodies only by conforming to these codes. Where and when is there ever anything bodily that is not written, remade, cultured, identified by the different tools which are part of a social symbolic code? (Decerteau, 1984).
Thus, this is a further argument that objects make up a kind of cultural institution with agency which can be argued has the power to act within certain spheres.
The Design Process and Studying Design Thinking
Looking at interactions of objects and people could be of use to both anthropologists and designers. Latour (2007) notes the difficulty in observing this interaction because objects have a tendency to "disappear." He says, "To be accounted for, objects have to enter into accounts. If no trace is produced, they offer no information to the observer and will have no visible effect on other agents" (Latour 2007). He says that objects are most visible in the stages before their completion.
The first solution is to study innovations in the artisan's workshop, the engineer's design department, the scientist's laboratory, the marketer's trial panels, the user's home, and the many socio-technical controversies. In these sites objects live a clearly multiple and complex life through meetings, plans, sketches, regulations, and trials. Here they appear fully mixed with other more traditional social agencies. It is only once in place that they disappear from view. This is why the study of innovations and controversies has been one of the first privileged places where objects can be maintained longer as visible, distributed, accounted mediators, before becoming invisible asocial intermediaries. (Latour 2007).
Here, Latour is arguing that objects are most visible in the design stage and that once the objects are put to use, they become less visible. Similarly, one of the basic concepts in design theory is that "good design is invisible," meaning that using a well-designed object is effortless, whereas using an ill-designed object is cumbersome so that each time you use it you are reminded of its defects (Suchman, 1987). Interestingly enough, the work of the anthropologist has also been described as "making the invisible visible," meaning that anthropologists highlight culture in a way which reveals information.
Others are also concerned with the interaction between objects and people. Suchman (1987) seeks to understand hidden relationships in order to better understand this interaction.
My central concern in the investigation is a new manifestation of an old problem in the study of mutual intelligibility: namely, the relation between observable behavior and the processes, not available to direct observation, that make behavior meaningful. (Suchman 1987).
Suchman says that the actions are located within the continually constructed relationship between observable behavior and unobservable intent. Human face-to-face interaction is one example of this mutual intelligibility. Her work is especially concerned with mutual intelligibility between humans and computer and what this interaction might look like within this context.
Every human tool relies upon, and reifies, some underlying conception of the activity which it is designed to support. As a consequence, one way to view the artifact is as a test on the limits of the underlying conception of the activity which it is designed to support (Suchman 1987).
Similarly, the designer creates a kind of plan for how the machine will be used. This process is similar to Latour's (2007) statement that design is most visible in the stages of its conception and contention. Suchman further elaborates on the idea about how a designer is involved in the process of a machine's future use.
For practical purposes, "user interface" designers have long held the view that machines ideally should be self-explanatory, in the broad sense that their operation should be discoverable without extensive training, from information provided on or through the machine itself. On this view, the degree to which an artifact is self-explanatory is just the extent to which someone examining the artifact is able to reconstruct the designer's intentions regarding its use (Suchman, 1987).
The idea that a tool's use should be decipherable by its user is a general design concept that is central to good design. For the social scientist, this theory can be viewed as the user in communication with the designer through the object itself. If the designer is successful in communicating the use of the object, the user will be able to 'read' the function of the object rather easily. Sanders (2002) has also noted the constructed nature of user-designer interaction. She comments on the common design discourse of 'designing user experience.'
But we can never really "design experience." Experiencing is a constructive activity. That is, a user's experience (with communication for example) is constructed of two equal parts: what the communicator provides, and what the communication brings to interaction (Sanders 2002).
Her argument brings the conversation back to the role that not only the designer, but also the user play in the interaction. Still others have argued that design is an interactive process with many actors.
Designing is not a reproductive activity based on recipes, but a process in which demands, methods, and solutions, have to be linked in a continuous iteration and interaction with other actors… As design is about interfaces, a most promising issue of interaction (or interface) between design and social disciplines would be communication (Ersten, 2002).
Placing Objects in Space and Time
A key point in the critique of social design is placing the local vs. global, because so much in the social design field is dependent on this value system. According to Latour (2007), "No place dominates enough to be global and no place is self-contained enough to be local."
There exists no global all-encompassing place where, for instance, the control room of the strategic air command, the Wall Street floor, the water pollution map, the census bureau, the Christian coalition, and the United Nations would be gathered and summed up (Latour 2007).
Here, I believe that Latour is arguing the concept of global vs. local is impossible to define absolutely because global and local do not exist in pure forms but only in relation to something else. From the designer's perspective we have, "Locals are localized. Places are placed." (Koolhaus as cited in Latour 2007). Arora (2010) says that, "it is important to reiterate that the local is a plurality, potentially conflicting and possibly temporal in its interest and inertia. Further, the local is not necessarily the opposite of global." The issue of dissecting the meaning of global and local is relevant to design because objects are given meaning through their contexts.
Bourdieu's (1984) "field" of social space, where actors or agents position themselves, is undeniably a valuable contribution to our conceptualizing of context but for the implied dispositions and ingrained societal norms that misleadingly claims to determine social action. (Bourdieu as cited in Arora, 2010).
People and places are given meaning though other people and places. Thus, we can assume that a particular design or object will have a specific meaning within a specific context. Take this example:
The Green Bay Packers this year beat the Pittsburgh Steelers to win Super Bowl XLV in Arlington, Texas. In parts of the developing world, however, an alternate reality exists: "Pittsburgh Steelers: Super Bowl XLV Champions" appears emblazoned on T-shirts from Nicaragua to Zambia. The shirt wearers, of course, are not an international cadre of Steelers die-hards, but recipients of the many thousands of excess shirts the National Football League produced to anticipate the post-game merchandising frenzy. Each year, the NFL donates the losing team's shirts to the charity World Vision, which then ships them off to developing countries to be handed out for free (Kenny 2011)
We can see how these t-shirts have taken on a different meaning and location than their original designer intended. Instead of being purchased by American Steelers fans, the shirts are given away to (or imposed upon, depending on the viewpoint) countries in South America and Africa where most local people probably don't have knowledge of the Super Bowl or the Steelers. Kenny goes on to argue that the t-shirt donations do more harm than good for the local population because (1) they hurt the local t-shirt economy and (2) the cost to ship them overseas is more than the cost to produce them locally.
Looking at the same issue from a different perspective, we can see that "local" designers will use "global" objects in ways specific to their needs, oftentimes altering the intended original design. This idea is the one most closely related to the framework that education is taking place under all circumstances and in unpredictable and creative ways. Meyer & Verrips (2001) note an experience when they took their car to be repaired in Ghana.
When I looked under it [the car hood] I got a shock. The radiator was replaced, the original fan removed and a kind of huge propeller attached to the engine block. When I angrily asked a mechanic what the hell happened, he smiled and told me not to worry at all, because this strange propeller was a 'proper adjustment' to the climate in which our car now had to function. The original fans were too weak for the tropical circumstances, so everybody with a car like ours would sooner or late replace it by a strong one which would always be in operation, and do away with the thermostat, a useless and even dangerous part in these circumstances. We felt horrible and irritated, because once again the value of our car had gone down due to this so-called adjustment (Meyer & Verrips, 2001).
At first glance, the Dutch anthropologists were angered by the repairman's apparent lack of knowledge about cars. They later realized that the repairmen did not actually lack technical knowledge, but were quite experienced with these types of repairs. Their repair, however, showed a different type of knowledge based on a particular problem in a particular place which was different from the authors' experience about car repairs. In this example, the car, a Toyota, was not a native object, however it found itself at the repair shop in Ghana, where the local repairman or "designer" implemented his own design in order to solve the problem. His solution was based on objects which were available for his use, Ghanian climate, and his own particular experience with this type of problem. The same problem in the United States or in Japan would likely show a different design solution.
Thus, any attempts to develop through design should consider the reality that "local" people are already involved in design thinking and they have probably already solved many of their own everyday issues through implementing this type of thinking. Similarly, former global or foreign object imports may be reinvented to be more usable within a new context.
Miller (1995) has also explored the concept of local and global and what it means to means to be a participant in this space.
Therefore to be a consumer is to possess consciousness that one is living through objects and images not of one's own creation. It is this which makes the term symptomatic of what some have at least seen as the core meaning of the term modernity (Habermas as cited in Miller,1995 ).
He debates what one experiences as a consumer in the modern world. He postulates that, "Consumption then may not be about choice but rather the sense that we have no choice but to attempt to overcome the experience of rupture using those very same goods and images which create for many the sense of modernity as rupture" (Miller, 1995). This idea that consumption has a place in social spheres in addition to economic spheres relates to the example of super bowl t-shirts which were sent outside the US.
What can we take from knowledge about the educative process in response to the problems of social design and design anthropology?
Recent interest in the marriage of design theory and social science has much potential for research and application of new theories and techniques. Hasty attempts to solve all the world's social problems using design poses the problems mentioned above concerning implicit power relationships, colonization of knowledge, and underlying assumption that "those people" must not have their own solutions. And yet, it still seems like a really appealing idea to some people in both design and development circles. Ultimately, the policy implication lies in what others have touched upon above, that the understanding lies more in the interaction and relationships between people, other people and objects than in solely the object itself. Thus, if one wants to implement a sustainable design within a community, they need to look not so much at the objects which will carry out sustainability, but the relationships and interactions between the objects and the people. If the objects are in place, but no one interacts with them, they will lose their meaning. In context, this might look like programs which focus on a shared exchange of issues in design problems. In reality, it is likely impossible to implement design projects which will "save the world," or even have a broad and deep impact on a community, because people all over the world already have the tools necessary to design their own solutions to their own problems. They are engaged in solving their problems every day. Just as their family gets bigger, they adapt their house and add an extra room, or as their car breaks down, they fix it with the tools which are available and improvise when necessary. Chinese-manufactured West African batiks are imported to Senegal and sold to tourists as "authentic" and "local." These are the moments of design that highlight human problem-solving abilities but which often become 'invisible' once they are in place and everything is working. The designer is making invisible some object and at the same time the anthropologist is making visible the same object.
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The Foreigner (2017 film)
|The Foreigner
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|Directed by
|Martin Campbell
|Produced by
|Screenplay by
|David Marconi
|Based on
|The Chinaman
by Stephen Leather
|Music by
|Cliff Martinez
|David Tattersall
|Edited by
|Angela M. Catanzaro
|Distributed by
|STX Films
Release date
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|114 minutes[1]
|$35 million[2]
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|$145.4 million[2]
The Foreigner is a 2017 action thriller film directed by Martin Campbell and written by David Marconi, based on the 1992 novel The Chinaman by Stephen Leather. The American-British-Chinese co-production stars Jackie Chan, Pierce Brosnan, Michael McElhatton, Liu Tao, Charlie Murphy, Orla Brady and Katie Leung, and follows a businessman who seeks revenge for the death of his daughter.
The Foreigner was released in China on 30 September 2017, in the United States on 13 October 2017, distributed by STXfilms, and in the United Kingdom in December 2017 on Netflix. It grossed $145 million worldwide and received mixed reviews, although critics praised the against type performances of Chan and Brosnan.[3]
Ngoc Minh Quan, a former Vietnam War special operations forces soldier, runs a Chinese restaurant called Happy Peacock in London with his business partner Lam. When his teenage daughter Fan is killed in a clothing store bombing, he seeks revenge. The bombing is claimed by a group calling itself the "Authentic IRA". Failing to get the names of the bombers from Scotland Yard, Quan next focuses on the Northern Ireland deputy First Minister Liam Hennessy, who speaks publicly about his status as a former IRA leader while condemning the bombing. Quan eventually leaves for Belfast and seeks out Hennessy, who claims to have no knowledge of the bombing or its perpetrators. Quan does not believe him and sets off a homemade bomb in Hennessy's office as a threat unless he gets the bombers' names.
Hennessy tries to identify the bombers with help from his contacts, but the rogue members catch on and outwit him. Quan observes Hennessy seeing his mistress, Maggie, and photographs them. Quan then brings the fight to Hennessy, hiding in the woods outside his Belfast farmhouse and attacking it with more explosives. As Hennessy's men attempt to track him in the woods, Quan uses traps to disable them but is shot in the shoulder and flees. After Quan ambushes Hennessy in his house, the latter sends his nephew Sean, a Royal Irish Regiment soldier, after Quan in hopes that his tracking skills can be used to stop him.
After a second bombing on a double-decker bus, Hennessy negotiates with British politician Katherine Davies and promises the capture of the bombers in exchange for the pardoning of several of his former IRA comrades. Meanwhile, Hennessy receives intel on the bombers and relays the information to Sean and police. After a knife fight in the woods, Quan captures Sean, who names the bombers and their location before Quan lets him go. Hennessy interrogates his head enforcer McGrath, discovering that the true mastermind is Hennessy's wife who remains angry at the British for the death of her little brother and resents Hennessy's working for them. Hennessy executes McGrath for his betrayal and for involving his wife and mistress, then rebukes Sean for leaking information to Mary.
As police prepare to raid the bombers' hideout, Quan enters the flat disguised as a handyman and kills everyone but Maggie. Quan leaves just before the police raid the apartment and find a severely wounded Maggie. They torture her into disclosing the location of their next bomb, which has been planted in a laptop computer to be detonated on a plane. British police find and throw the laptop into an empty jet bridge, where it detonates without casualties. With the threat resolved, Maggie is executed to prevent any "loose ends". Hennessy gets a call from Davies, who tells him that she has learned of his involvement but that he will retain his position as a politician, though under her thumb. Sean later executes Mary, eliminating the entire cell as a result.
Quan confronts Hennessy with the picture of Hennessy kissing Maggie, which is enough to throw public suspicion on Hennessy and his role in the bombings. He forces Hennessy to post the picture to the internet and then returns home. Scotland Yard realizes Quan's role in the events and has him put under surveillance, but decides not to take any further action and thanks him for his assistance.
- Jackie Chan as Ngoc Minh Quan, a Nung Chinese former Vietnam War special forces operator turned London restaurateur in Walworth, who looks for revenge after his daughter is killed in a bombing.
- Pierce Brosnan as Liam Hennessy, the current Deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland and a former member of the IRA.
- Michael McElhatton as Jim Kavanagh, Hennesey's right hand man and head of security.
- Liu Tao as Keyi Lam, Quan's friend and co-owner of the restaurant.
- Charlie Murphy as Maggie Dunn/Sara Mackay, Liam's mistress and an undercover member of the Authentic IRA.
- Orla Brady as Mary Hennessy, Liam's wife.
- Katie Leung as Fan Quan[4][5], Ngoc Minh's daughter who is killed in a bombing by the Authentic IRA.
- Ray Fearon as Commander Richard Bromley, head of the Metropolitan Police Service's Counter Terrorism Command.
- Dermot Crowley as Hugh McGrath, an old associate of Hennessy's later revealed to be the Authentic IRA's leader.
- Rory Fleck-Byrne as Sean Morrison, an ex Royal Irish Ranger/United Kingdom Special Forces soldier and Liam's nephew.
- Lia Williams as Katherine Davies MP, a British Cabinet Minister.
- Pippa Bennett-Warner as Marissa Levitt, a Counter Terrorism Command detective.
- Simon Kunz as Matthew Rice, an MI5 interrogation expert.
- Roberta Taylor as Mrs. Taylor
- Rufus Jones as Ian Wood, a news reporter
- Niall McNamee as Patrick O'Reilly, an Authentic IRA cell member responsible for the 1st bombing which killed Quan's daughter.
- Caolan Byrne as McCormick, a member of the Authentic IRA terrorist cell.
- John Cronin as Denis Fisher, a member of the Authentic IRA terrorist cell.
- Stephen Hogan as Christy Murphy, another of Hennessy's bodyguards.
- Aaron Monaghan as Pat Nugent, the bombmaker for the Authentic IRA terrorist cell.
- David Pearse as Billy McMahon, one of Hennessy's henchmen.
- Mark Tandy as Simpson, a news editor and Wood's boss.
- Donna Bernard as Channel A news anchor
- Scott Sparrow as Daniel Barrie, a Counter Terrorism Command detective.
- Sean Campion as Byaro Cary
- Sean Gleeson as Billy Makre
- Thusitha Jayasundera as Mira, a Counter Terrorism Command officer
- Jonathan Cullen as Security Expert
- Grainne Keenan as Beth
- Jane Thorne as Mrs. McAllister
- Stuart Graham as Detective Inspector Donald Greig, Police Service of Northern Ireland
- Yangmeizi Wang as Quan's wife
- David Annen as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
- Aden Gillet as Ross, an MI5 operational commander.
On 5 June 2015 it was announced that Jackie Chan would star in the action thriller film The Foreigner, for STX Entertainment, and based on Stephen Leather's novel The Chinaman.[6] Nick Cassavetes initially signed to direct the film, which was adapted from Leather's novel by David Marconi, while Wayne Marc Godfrey was one of the producers.[7] The film is partially set in Walworth, London.[6] On 15 July 2015, Deadline reported that Martin Campbell was instead in talks to direct the film, while Relativity Media would finance.[7] Pierce Brosnan joined the cast alongside Chan in November. Co-stars Liu Tao and Chan attended the Shanghai Film Festival on 11 June 2016 to promote the film.[8]
Principal photography commenced in January 2016. The filming in London of a scene involving the explosion of a bus on Lambeth Bridge caused some alarm, as people were not aware that it was a stunt.[9] Scenes were shot at the Walters & Cohen designed Regent High School in Camden and on Churton Street in Pimlico on 18 February 2016.[citation needed]
This marked the first time in which Brosnan starred in a film directed by Martin Campbell since the 1995 film GoldenEye.
Cliff Martinez composed the score.
The Fyzz Facility produced, and is distributing, the film, in association with Sparkle Roll Media and Huayi Brothers, while STXfilms distributes it theatrically across the United States of America.
It was released on 30 September 2017 in China and 13 October 2017 in the United States. In the United Kingdom it was released on December 2017 on Netflix. A DVD and Blu-ray released in the United States on January 9, 2018 and January 23 in Canada and the rest of the world.
Box office[edit]
The Foreigner grossed $34.4 million in the United States and Canada, and $111 million in other countries for a worldwide total of $145.4 million, against a production budget of $35 million.[2]
In the United States and Canada, the film opened alongside Happy Death Day, Marshall and Professor Marston and the Wonder Women, and was expected to gross $10–15 million from 2,555 theaters in its opening weekend.[10] It made $4.8 million on its first day, including $855,000 from Thursday night previews. It went on to open to $15.5 million, finishing third at the box office behind Happy Death Day and Blade Runner 2049.[11]
Critical response[edit]
On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 65% based on 106 reviews, with an average rating of 6/10. The site's critical consensus reads, "The Foreigner adheres strictly to action thriller formula, but benefits from committed—and out of character—performances from its talented veteran stars."[12] On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 55 out of 100, based on 23 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".[13] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "A−" on an A+ to F scale, while PostTrak reported filmgoers gave it a 78% overall positive score.[11]
Peter Travers of Rolling Stone gave the film three out of four stars and praised Chan's performance, saying: "It's the most dramatic role Chan has ever tackled, and he plays it with coiled intensity and raw emotional power."[14] Clarence Tsui of The Hollywood Reporter also praised Chan, writing, "It's good to see Chan swapping his happy-go-lucky persona for two hours for some gravitas as a tragic rogue with a marked past."[15]
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- ^ a b Fleming Jr, Mike (15 July 2015). "Martin Campbell in Talks To Direct Jackie Chan in STX Action Film". deadline.com. Retrieved 16 July 2015.
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- ^ "Movie's London bus explosion strikes fear of terror attack into public". The Guardian. 7 February 2016.
- ^ "'Happy Death Day' expected to unseat 'Blade Runner 2049' at the box office". Los Angeles Times. 11 October 2017. Retrieved 11 October 2017.
- ^ a b "Blumhouse Has Plenty To Smile About As 'Happy Death Day' Scares Up $30M+ Opening". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved 14 October 2017.
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Klondex Mines Ltd. (KDX:TSX; KLDX:NYSE MKT) ("Klondex" or the "Company" - https://www.commodity-tv.net/c/mid,2697,Company_Presentation/?v=296881) is pleased to provide an update on underground drilling at its Fire Creek Mine ("Fire Creek") located in northern Nevada, USA. The following drill results are not included within the mineral reserve and mineral resource estimates released on September 14, 2016. These results will be included in the next mineral reserve and mineral resource update.
Fire Creek Mine Underground Drilling Highlights: (see TABLE 1 for complete results)
- FCU-0714: 96.92 opt Au over 1.7 ft., or 3,322.8 g/t over 0.5 m – Joyce Vein
- FCU-0692: 1.47 opt Au over 8.0 ft., or 50.3 g/t over 2.4 m – Joyce Vein
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Sept 18, 2018-Paramount Pictures decision to go wide in theaters with quirky, genre-bending drama mother! turned out to be a bellyflop. The Jennifer Lawrence/Michelle Pfeiffer movie grossed just $7.5 million for the three-days ending yesterday on 2,368 screens. Over 1,000 screens is a wide release.
Filmmaker Darren Aronofsky (Black Swan and The Wrestler) has an arty reputation, which ordinarily would call for a gradual platform release starting out on hundreds of screens and building. But
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Thank you, Leo Tolstoy for such a wonderful quote to use as my blog title today. Which I've taken from Anna Karenina (a must read, please don't base your opinion on that meat-grinder of a movie recently made).
Despite everything which is going on for me with regards to my mental health and within my family I've tried to be determined to keep my head above water as much as possible. Helped today by a beautiful blue sky and warm sunshine I decided keeping busy was the best policy I had for tackling my demons.
Starting with some window cleaning, I moved on to cleaning the car, which was much more of an effort than it would sound. I've owned the car for two years and never cleaned it. I'm fairly sure my neighbours think I have a new car now! Ah well, should help if I have to sell it…I have a feeling I may lose my licence, I have to wait and see how this meeting with the psychiatrist goes but it's certainly a likelihood.
Each of the friends I mentioned on my post a few days ago has been in touch with me separately, all reminding me that it doesn't matter we live miles away and that it's the friendship itself that matters not where you live. This is why I consider them my closest friends because they always know what to say to make me feel less alone.
This afternoon my Husband took my out on his bike, He had a few errands to run so we rode around and I played Ingress whenever we stopped for him to go do his errands. I'd like to have said we were riding around with the wind in our hair but helmet laws and all that! But that reckless Bipolar Manic in me really wanted to rip that helmet off!
The voices have been pretty loud all day, but keeping busy has helped me function regardless of them. I'm on my own tomorrow so I think that's going to be tough going, especially as I no longer have my Mum to fall back on. But hopefully the weather will be good again and I can go play some Ingress, I've done a bit of tactical planning so I know where I will going if I do get out so fingers crossed.
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Dropped another 10% of the grapes 3 days ago to the dammed oidio! 10% is now what I hope to be left with. That's still enough to make some wine, maybe 80 bottles. Meanwhile, we are eating our first garden melons and pears and lots of tomatoes and lots of mustard, arugula, broccoli, and other sprouts from the Fall/Summer garden.
And the clean up of the construction work site continues. This was the view out our back door, at the southwest corner of the vineyard, yesterday.
Here is the same view today!
At last, I am done with the basic heavy lifting around the house! The chaos of big stones, earth, broken brick and other construction debris, wood scraps and firewood! Finally, I can walk around the house outside and not trip over things or step on nails or get stung by wasps or spook vipers! Finally, I see order when I look out a window! Finally, I can sit down and write. Well, almost. There's still a lot to do.
Today, I bought a 230 liter food grade plastic vat as a back up vessel to start the red wine in if things happen faster than I expect. Certain reds grapes (Ciliegiolo) are already at 15 Brix (That's a measure of the sugar in the grape) and certain whites (Malvasia) are at 18 Brix. Ideally, I want to harvest the reds around 22 to 24 Brix and the whites a little lower. The time is fast approaching! Now I need to organize and build the wine cellar and production area in our underground garage. I need to build a work bench and storage racks and make sure everything is sanitary. But that is pleasant construction in cave cool conditions. I'm out of the hot Tuscan sun at last!


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'District 11': World Cup aliens invade South Africa
You saw "District 9" last year, right? You loved it, right? One of my favorites in 2009. (Though I preferred "Crazy Heart" for the music and Jeff Bridges.) "District 9" is an apartheid allegory set in Johannesburg; a certain soccer tournament is taking place in Jozi right this very minute. If you saw the movie, you'll appreciate this parody. If you didn't see the flick, add it to your NetFlix queue immediately. And watch this video:
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July 2, 2010; 1:25 PM ET
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Great movie!! Was very, pleasantly surprised as I knew nothing about it.
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I was about to write "Payback's a b!tch" -- because I have no sympathy for Ghana's whining about Uruguay's faking -- but I guess they don't need my sympathy. What a goal!
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Oh my God, the orange slices are perfect!!!!
Also thought the shin guard was a great replacement.
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Today I'll say more about the difference between having a conscious experience and just thinking about it. When I was working as a psychotherapist I noticed that people seemed to live in their concepts instead of in the flow of their own sensual experiences. When asked, "What are you feeling now?" clients would often say how they had usually felt in similar circumstances, how they thought they should feel, how they imagined that most people would feel, what they thought I wanted them to say they felt, how they had generally been feeling in the past few minutes, or what sort of feeling they thought others would applaud. Few were able to tap into the detailed, second-by-second flow of their own stream of awareness.
A woman might initially say, "I feel sad," for example, but after carefully focusing on her experience she might discover to her own surprise that she was mainly feeling angry. (Perhaps she was taught by her parents that good girls don't get mad.) Her beliefs about how things seemed to her experientially were quite different from her actual state of mind. Incidently, this could be one cause of the placebo effect. When people expect an inert "drug" to ameliorate their symptoms, they often report that it does. This may be partly because they are not competently monitoring their own sensations. They are living more in their concepts than in their own bodies.
I observe – I assume. This technique from Gestalt Therapy helps us "come to our senses." It can be practiced in many different situations, but at first try using it in situations where you can observe other people without distraction. Sitting in a restaurant or watching TV are two excellent opportunities. Look at someone unobtrusively and notice something you observe about that individual. Then notice what you are assuming, inferring, or speculating about this person. "I observe that he is wearing a tie. I assume he is a rather formal fellow." "I observe that she is wearing a red blouse; she probably likes that shade of red." "I observe that he is laughing; I speculate that he has a nice sense of humor."
Continue alternating between things you observe and things you guess or assume. See if you can catch yourself confusing an assumption for an observation. For example, "I observe that she is sleepy" is false. You aren't inside of her head and you can't be sure sleepiness is what she is experiencing. "I observe her yawning, and I assume she is sleepy" would be correct. But she might be bored. By practicing this technique you can begin to see how much of what we take as obvious facts are merely conjectures. It is remarkably easy to live within our concepts instead of our actual experiences.
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