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		<title>On Target?</title>
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		<dc:creator>Dave Franchino</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ann Zimmerman of The Wall Street Journal wrote a fascinating article earlier this week on Target’s efforts to help thwart “Showrooming” when shoppers come into the store to see a product in person only to buy it from a rival later on-line, frequently at a lower price.  According to the article “Last week, in an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oh for the love of Montagne Jeunesse!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 May 2011 17:55:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave Franchino</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I snagged this monstrosity from one of our designers who was referencing it on a recent project – If ever there were a package in desperate search of a “Horrible Graphic Design” contest… well this is it.   Starting with the use of no less than a dozen fonts – several of which are illegible [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SBIR Conference Notes</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Apr 2011 16:28:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave Franchino</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dave Franchino, president and principal of Design Concepts, spoke at the national Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Conference Tuesday, April 12, 2011, Madison, WI. Franchino presented Leveraging Innovation: How to Partner with a Product Development Firm to introduce the risks and rewards of innovaton partnerships. For those who were there, or those who couldn&#8217;t attend, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Life in the Sloooow Lane</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Apr 2011 02:05:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave Franchino</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don’t know exactly why, but I guess I find this sort of depressing. A wonderful article in the Wall Street Journal either heralds or laments – depending on your perspective –the end of the “age of speed”. The basic premise is thus: Up to the 18th century, mankind was pretty much speed limited. Preumably [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I Know Who Designed That!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Mar 2011 20:02:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave Franchino</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I spent some time this weekend screwing the glove box back into my car.  Odd.  I know.  The story of how a perfectly good glove box came to be outside of the car is interesting and left me contemplating the general degree of isolation and detachment we often have from the people who influence myriad [...]]]></description>
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