Amendment/Affirmation/Design Finds

Amendment
Perhaps I didn't make myself clear with my last post. That is very plausible considering I wrote during one of my panic driven anxieties. I did not find him on myspace. I think I quite possibly sent an invitation to him to join myspace. If I did send this, it was to an address I was not suppose to know about.

Affirmation
For some people what they "do" is a career choice, for others it is a lifestyle. I fall into the latter. But I am aware that it is hard for some people to grasp the idea of designer as a lifestyle. I have been a designer for years, I was a designer before I knew what to call it, but, to date, I have yet to make money as a designer. I feel I had to say that before I state the cold ego-crushing truth: at the moment my "money-making" day job is selling soles (You will understand why I had to tell you this in just a few lines).

Design Find #1
::Diesel Boxes::
Are there any shoe fiends out there? If there are, you might have noticed how hard it has been the last little while to find Diesels...anywhere...so you can imagine our shock, awe, and happy excitement to get Diesels in our shipment today!!! All in all they were ok looking shoes not the fabulousness that you would expect from Diesel, but typical. That is not what has me excited. The geniuses in the packaging department have designed a delicious box for these shoes. It is a typical brown box (high quality/nice texture) with an attached lid. They have printed the name on the box with, what I think, is glossy UV coating (it could be a glossy varnish though-that would be the most cost effective way to do it). There is a one inch grasp hole punched out in the corner and they have attached a copper fitting to it. My description really doesn't do the design justice so here:
The color is a little off, but what else can you expect from bad lighting and a camera phone?
These boxes are clean, simple and exquisite. I completely fell in love with them. If I had an extra eighty bucks I would so buy the shoes just so I could have the box.
Plus, think about what this box says about the product. I mean, your going to buy this product because it is hot "we don't need to flash up the box."

Design Find #2
::Las Vegas Sign::
I have been working on a new personal brand so I have been doing a little research on some particular eras. And I have found a few little tid bits of fun information.
Everyone knows this sign right?
This "fabulous" Las Vegas sign:
was designed in 1959...
was sold to Clark County for $4000...
has never been copyrighted...
was designed by Betty Willis a commercial artist from the area...
Leave to a kick ass woman to design something so iconic :)