MTV Motorola Design

The purpose of this mission was for the judges to better understand how the competitors interacted with customers and based upon the results, select two team leaders. I was selected to become a team leader.

Considering that the specific subway station’s main users are office workers, our team tried to provide an area where office workers may experience time off from all the chaos and rapid movement that occur in subway stations while going to work. By providing sponge steps that direct users to certain directions (up or down), not only do these steps provide a natural guideline, but it also reduces the sound created by all the footsteps. Office workers may escape from all the noise and feel tranquil while passing this area.

Through multiple interviews and onsite research, we figured out events best suited for the amusement park. People tended to gather a lot of information from diverse places and sources inside the amusement park. Free give-away balloons, a kiosk serving as a map, and famous ice shows were three of the top insights that were gathered. For our final presentation, we presented a day-in-the-life-of scenario of a couple visiting Lotte World and showed how RAZR 2 could be advertised in designated areas.

We analyzed that Motorola Razr 2 had strengths in being fashionably slim and having a dual screen. We created two posters that highlighted these strengths. Because the phone is so slim, the side view of the phone could be used as an inequality sign (<). This inequality sign was used to represent that the Razr 2 selected normal glasses (dual screen) over the monocle and the thin leg (fashionably thing) over the comparatively thicker leg. The ad asks people what they would prefer in this stage of fashion and technology.

Because we were only given an hour to design the shirt, we tried to design the shirt to be simple and catchy. We came up with the concept of crEATe. Create and eat. The main focus of this mission was not to make an aesthetic shirt, but it was to set a price point for this shirt and to sell as many as possible. We decided to create a campaign where if people donated a certain amount of money ($10) for the poor, then the shirt would be given for free. This campaign was immensely successful as some people were willing to donate money and not receive a t-shirt.

Motivated by Korea’s hot summers, our group wondered if we could create a fashion item for the beach. A big concern for people in the beach was losing property while swimming. We decided to create a flexible tube where important valuables such as wallets and mobile phones could be placed inside for safety. Using the elasticity and flexibility of Rubber EL, people may purchase a stick of BLUEtube and can twist it to whatever form they desire much like twisting animal balloons. Through waterproof keypads and bluetooth, people can enjoy receiving and making phone calls even inside the ocean.

BLUEtube’s main concept was to store valuables such as your phone and wallet in a tube preventing them from getting lost or broken while at the beach. Our TV advertisement focused on the idea that your valuables would never touch water with BLUEtube. The advertisement shows 3 divers diving off a diving board. The first two divers do not use BLUEtube, while the last diver does. The first two divers plunge into the water and receive low points. The last diver does not plunge into water and receives maximum points. This emphasizes the fact that with BLUEtube, your valuables will never touch water.

The target lifestyle I chose were people who were increasingly taking, viewing and editing videos on their mobile phones. The concept was a Reel Phone. The phone that enabled users to record, edit, and transfer video like never before. The Reel Phone integrates a new interface and hardware for ongoing bloggers and life-loggers. The size of camcorders are much too big and its technology is hard to deal with for ordinary people. With the circular reel form in Reel Phone, taking, editing, and sending video clips real time will not be a problem for all ages.