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PD Slice: Gay Pride Cases Make a Splash in Pensacola
June 6th, 2010Last weekend, our case-mate team debuted our Gay Pride cases at Pensacola Pride, held every Memorial Day weekend.
I was only able to hit one tent because they were so popular, and I didnt have many to begin with. Everyone was fighting over the cases and trying to purchase them because they were such a hit. Once people finally believed that I didn’t have any more to give out, they started trying to buy and trade them from each other!
The top picture shows a guy taking off his old case because he was so excited to put on the case-mate gay pride case!
PD Slice: Sneak Peek
April 20th, 2010We’ve got another look into the future for you this week and this time we need some feedback! Here’s a glimpse of one of our new designs:
Now, you decide!
What colors would you like to see offered in this case for both the outer and inner layers? Which shape do you like better – hexagon or squares? Please comment and help our product development team pick!
PD Slice: Seconds
March 27th, 2010Another PD Slice, another Industrial Designer to introduce; who says seconds are for Thanksgiving lunch only? This week meet Vyasateja Jyothigowdanapura. Try saying that 10 times fast! We prefer to call him VT for short. Similar to Alex, VT has is own personal blog. Waddoyathink?
PD Slice: Freeze
March 8th, 2010It is amazing the things you can accomplish in the morning before work and still be on time.
Shower ✓
Breakfast ✓
Brush teeth ✓
Police officers in my living room ✓
Yes I said police officers, yes that’s plural.
8:15 a.m. I was blow-drying my hair.
8:25 a.m. I opened the front door to let Weagle, my dog go outside.
8:35 a.m. As I was starting to get dressed for the day, Weagle began to bark uncontrollably (not uncharacteristic for him) so half dressed I turned the corner to find TWO fully uniformed men in blue standing in my hallway yelling FREEZE; POLICE!
They were IN my HOUSE, not outside my house, knocking on the door. Apparently, someone called 911 from my house. The irony is I do not have a land line, just a cell phone. I told the officers this and their only response was, “We need to see proof of I.D. that you live here.” So, just my luck, I couldn’t find my drivers license. Finally, I walked outside to my car and find it. After validating my residence one of the cops radio’d the operator to get the phone number that called. He repeated it out loud to me like I was supposed to lead him in the right direction. Of course, I did not recognize the number.
8:45 a.m. The officers were squeezing their way out of my locked gate (best part of the whole experience).
9:00 a.m. I slid into my desk like Tom Cruise in Risky Business, not a minute late, no thanks to the po-po, 5-0, pigs, fuzz, bacon, boys in blue, cops, dogs, feds, flat foot, Johnny law, LEO, narcs…
The PD Slice: Digestion
February 19th, 2010After having a few weeks off cleaning up Fairbanks’ leakage, PD has decided to keep the information channel light this week. However, do not make the mistake of confusing light with irrelevant or you will really miss out.
Innovation is hard work. Inspiration for innovation is even harder. What makes case-mate so unique is that we have the ability to create our own inspiration. In PD the #1 thing that inspires us is music.
Maybe its because we have a BOOMING Bose system or maybe it’s our impeccable taste in music, either way… “music/ makes the designers/ imagination/ floooow (In Madonna’s voice.)”
If your foot’s not thumpin’ yet we will leave you with a playlist of a typical day in the life of Product Development:
Metric and Decemberists
Zef Side-Die Antwoord
El ten eleven
Ferras
Justice
Daft Punk
LIL WAYNE (notice the caps lock)
Sugarland
Kings of Leon
Young Money
Madonna
Black Eyed Peas
Winds of Plague
Beyonce
Passion pit
Bollywood songs ( hindi )
Jay-Z
Muse
Static X
System of a Down
Slipknot
Jennifer Nettles
Mudvayne
Rob Zombie
Chevelle
Coal Chamber
Outkast
Disturbed
Drowning Pool
Godsmack
Hollywood Undead
The Offspring
P.O.D.
Papa Roach
Sevendust
The Union Underground
The PD Slice: Raw Ingredients
January 29th, 2010Welcome to your first taste of the PD Slice, served weekly. PD (Product Development) is a mysterious department within case-mate. Therefore I will make it a point to cook you up just a little bit less than top-secret toppings. Otherwise, I’d have to kill you.
PD is so top secret that we are equipped with our own guard dog, Fairbanks. Standing 9 inches tall and weighing a beefy 9 lbs., Fairbanks is the leader of the PD pack.
Like Fairbanks, the rest of us animals in PD make it a point to stay hydrated, take frequent breaks to use the bathroom outside and of course, beg for food.
In an attempt to not over cook this first entry, consider your first PD slice served.
