Archives December, 2010
10 Cultural Contrasts between US and Japanese Companies – A Personal View | 12-15-2010
by Reina | Posted in General (English)As I have reflected back on the last 6 months I have spent working in the U.S., there are some cultural contrasts as well as commonality in the work environment. After graduating college, I came to the US to work briefly and spent 4 years in a traditionally, big company in Japan. I followed the dream of most Japanese working ...
Tags: btrax, Corporate Culture, Japan, Japanese, US
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Mobile Monday Silicon Valley – Nostradamus Giants Speak | 12-07-2010
by Greg | Posted in Events & Seminars, General (English), Mobile TrendsImage by Jesslee Cuizon In a week that the ad campaign for Google’s Nexus S launched and the same Google was left at the altar by Groupon, it just made you think – What’s next? That is exactly what last night at the December Mobile Monday was all about–2010 in review and 2011 predictions for mobile tech. We had a ...
Tags: 2010, Joe Jasin, John Malloy, Mario Tapia, Matt Fix, Mobile Monday, Om Malik, Rich P. Wong, Silicon Valley Comments
A New Shade of Green – The New Toyota Design Culture | 12-03-2010
by Greg | Posted in Design & Branding, General (English)I was pleased to attend the first NEW PEOPLE Talk series last night. The speaker was Tetsuya Kaida, General Manager of Toyota’s Business Revolution Corporate Value Project Department, speaking about his vision for Toyota’s new global values-his presentation called “Space and Wind.” His presentation described a way of thinking that touched my cultural soul, my social being and my renewed ...
Tags: Automobile Design, btrax, Japanese Design, New People World, Tetsuya Kaida, Toyota, Viz Cinema Comments
Top 10 Korean Businesses in the World | 12-02-2010
by Greg | Posted in General (English)photo by Sam Garza We took the Forbes Global 2000 list and summarized where the Top 10 Korean companies for 2010 rank. The Top 10 list describes the type of industry that each company serves and lists the sales, profits, assets and market value for each company. Forbes ranks these global titans by a composite ranking from four metric – ...
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East meets West – Ukiyoe Edition | 12-01-2010
by Brandon | Posted in Design & Branding, General (English)I am running a company whose primary focus is to connect East and West through online media. While I was in college, I did something on the same theme in one of my design classes. But at that time, I used Ukiyoe (Japanese traditional wood painting) as the eastern example and contrasted that with classic American animation. A picture is ...
Tags: Design & Branding, Japanese Design, Ukiyoe Comments
