Design Style Guide: Holding a Candle

Design Style Guide: Holding a Candle

Here is a nice feature on some amazing candle sticks and their makers.

Blog Featuring Boone's Hooks

Here is a link to a very nice jewelery blog that is currently featuring Boone's Hooks.

http://sassyglassdesigns.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2009-07-18T10%3A28%3A00-05%3A00&max-results=3

Cheers,
Smyth

Bathroom Remodels

Here is an article by LX.TV regarding redoing your bathroom featuring Boone's Hooks. The site is loaded with other helpful articles on decorating and design.

http://lxtv.com/helpme/article/10027

Cheers,
Smyth

Boone's Hooks on the Today Show

Here is the video clip of Boone's Hooks from today's Today Show on msnbc...

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TODAY show featuring Boone's Hooks!

Hello,

I am excited to announce that Boone's Hooks will be featured in a piece on the TODAY show tomorrow, Thursday, June 25th! Here is the information that I received...

Thanks so much for speaking with me just now about the the leaf towel bar and ring to showcase on The Today Show!

I work for LXTV, which produces a real estate / home design show called Open House, which airs on NBC stations across the country. You can see clips of the show on our website: http://lxtv.com/openhouse/.

Our home improvement host, George Oliphant, is scheduled to be on Today, Thursday June 25th in the 8 AM hour, showcasing some great DIY weekend projects to upgrade your bathroom, and we would love to include the bar and ring!
The segment is scheduled to air on Thursday LIVE during the 8 AM hour, EST. It would be the 2nd hour of the Today Show (I’m not sure what time that airs in Colorado), barring any breaking news...

I will send you the web link after the program airs. You can also check it out at http://today.msnbc.msn.com/

Special thanks go out to Tynan and Jamie at Rancho Del Arte!

Thank you for supporting fine, hand-forged ironwork!

Cheers,
Smyth Boone

Blog Feature

Here is a link to a nice site and a feature on my work. Enjoy

http://ellecustomjewelry.blogspot.com/

Cheers,
Smyth Boone

"Prosumer" Economy

Here is an encouraging article from the San Francisco Gate. My comments are below...

Get ready: Here comes the 'prosumer economy'

Hunkering down, cutting and conserving, snapping up opportunities that others may miss. All the standard nostrums for surviving the Great Recession make sense, but they're not sufficient to cope with the new economic order that's coming.

That's what Eamonn Kelly, CEO of San Francisco's Global Business Network ( www.gbn.com), is telling CEOs of the Fortune 100 companies he advises. At a recent gathering of the Alliance of Chief Executives ( www.allianceofceos.com), an organization of Bay Area CEOs headquartered in Walnut Creek, Kelly outlined some of the coming challenges:

-- The era of Western-led innovation and globalization is finished, as China and India lead the shift to the East and begin to make their own rules. Henceforth, businesses will be operating in a world of "multiple models of government-private sector relations."

-- In the United States, "government is back," ending the private sector's "untrammeled permission to play." In addition to the state, the nonprofit civic sector - environmental organizations, for example - will become increasingly visible stakeholders in private enterprises.

-- Western consumption patterns are unsustainable. In fact, they are "structurally broken."

What does all this mean? Kelly believes - and this is a Fortune 100 adviser, mind you - that material consumption is being replaced by, for want of a better word, spiritual consumption. In a nutshell, quality supersedes quantity, a trend I believe we are already starting to see. For companies, that implies "a massive emphasis on co-creation with consumers," evolving into what Kelly calls the "prosumer economy."

It also presages, he believes, a transition from traditional models of competition to shared "webs" of innovation. "Companies are going to have to be more agile, more collaborative." Which, he acknowledged, "puts corporate executives in a very hard place. How do you manage that tension between dealing with the current recession and needing to adapt to these fundamental changes?"

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I feel this trend is very encouraging to the craftsperson and anyone that deals with quality items. If you are an artist, please keep up the great craftsmanship and as a consumer, which we all are, please purchase high quality.

I am glad to see the consumer finally get some power back over the corporations and I look forward to the new products that will surface and the older ones that will stay in demand.

Cheers,
Smyth Boone