Danielle Vermeer

1. What problem am I solving?2. Whose problem am I solving?3. What benefits am I unlocking?4. What promise am I making?5. What emotion am I generating?6. What's the next action my reader should take?

Signaling and counter-signaling are hidden methods of communicating with each other. We do it all the time as a way to “prove” we are who and what we claim to be.

Humans are finding new ways to express themselves in both the digital and physical realms in order to join wider communities and reject our most physically distanced era. In other words, the rise of community through visual identifiers is a growing phenomenon. Second, these trends allow people to explore their identity through relative... See more

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Product authentication is becoming an area of ever-increasing importance in the battle for brands to provide reassurance and legitimacy in the resale market. 👜

What might be most impactful for students is a value shift away from today’s culture of waste, where we buy more clothes than ever but never keep them for long.

Lavoine and her collaborators have developed a process that allows them to use nanocellulose to produce clothing items with iridescent features resembling the rainbow-hued shimmer seen on fish scales, bird feathers and insect bodies.