Wednesday 14 April 2010

Target Market


Age: 0-11 year olds

Location: Yorkshire

Sex: male and female

Demographics: They will be either not at school/nursery or school.

Live: with their parents/guardians

Personality Traits: being active, energetic, excited, open minded.

Hobbies: being outside, playing, sleeping, eating, socializing with other kids their age.

Price Specific: They will rely on their parents to buy things for them and relating to the football scheme I think that they would be inclined to buy their favourite teams merchandise for example t-shirts, scarves, clothing, hats, toys etc as they would have the team logo on them.

This is quite a wide ages range as the difference between a 0 year old and an 11 year old is quite drastic. At the age of 0 you need total care and attention you cant do anything for yourselves. Where was 11 year olds are quite advanced, can do things themselves, know what they like and what they don’t like and why.

The advantage of trying to appeal to such a young age however is that if you manage to get them supporting the Huddersfield Team from a young age it will hopefully carry on until they are older and they will then pass this onto their children and so on.

Football is also about being proud of where you have grown up/come from because most people support the team that is based close to them. This then joins all those people together who support that team so it’s a very united/ social experience.

From personal experience I attended a few football matches with my dad and sister when we were younger and I know that it was also a time to bond with family as your both enjoying the same experience. I still to this day watch football on the television when its on and even though I’m not a die hard fan as some other people I know, I still feel a sense of pride when they win.

Tuesday 13 April 2010

Quality


Quality in business, engineering and manufacturing has a pragmatic interpretation as the non-inferiority or superiority of something. Quality is a perceptual, conditional and somewhat subjective attribute and may be understood differently by different people. Consumers may focus on the specification quality of a product/service, or how it compares to competitors in the marketplace. Producers might measure the conformance quality, or degree to which the product/service was produced correctly.

In terms of quality relating to the football team, i think that it refers to the team playing a consistently high quality game, having players that give 100% every match, a strong team together not just individuals and a good manager that is prepared to drive them forward.

Value


In ethics, value is a property of objects, including physical objects as well as abstract objects (e.g. actions), representing their degree of importance.

Ethic value denotes something's degree of importance, with the aim of determining what action or life is best to do or live, or at least attempt to describe the value of different actions. It may be described as treating actions themselves as abstract objects, putting value to them. It deals with right conduct and good life, in the sense that a highly, or at least relatively highly, valuable action may be regarded as ethically "good", and an action of low, or at least relatively low, value may be regarded as "bad".

What makes an action valuable may in turn depend on the ethic values of the objects it increases, decreases or alters. An object with "ethic value" may be termed an "ethic or philosophic good".

Success


Success may mean, but is not limited to:

  • a level of social status
  • achievement of an objective/goal
  • the opposite of failure
  • the succession of successfully executed tasks and sucesses

Monday 12 April 2010

Character


A character structure is a system of relatively permanent motivational and other traits that are manifested in the specific ways that an individual relates and reacts to others, to various kinds of stimuli, and the environment that will most likely bring about a normal or productive character structure. On the other hand, a child whose nurture and/or education are not ideal, living in a treacherous environment and interacting with adults who do not take the long-term interests of the child to heart will be more likely to form a pattern of behavior that suits the child to avoid the challenges put forth by a malign social environment. The means that the child invents to make the best of a hostile environment. Although this may serve the child well while in that bad environment, it may also cause the child to react in inappropriate ways, ways damaging to his or her own interests, when interacting with people in a more ideal social context. Major trauma that occurs later in life, even in adulthood, can sometimes have a profound effect.

Respect


Respect denotes both a positive feeling of esteem for a person or other entity (such as a nation or a religion), and also specific actions and conduct representative of that esteem. Respect can be a specific feeling of regard for the actual qualities of the one respected (e.g., "I have great respect for her judgment"). It can also be conduct in accord with a specific ethic of respect. Rude conduct is usually considered to indicate a lack of respect, disrespect, whereas actions that honor somebody or something indicate respect.

Pride


Pride is, depending on the interactional and cultural context, either a high sense of one's personal status (i.e., leading to judgements of personality and character) or the specific mostly positive emotion that is a product of praise or independent self-reflection. Philosophers and social psychologists have noted that pride is a complex secondary emotion which requires the development of a sense of self and the mastery of relevant conceptual distinctions (e.g., that pride is distinct from happiness and joy) through language-based interaction with others. Some social psychologists identify it as linked to a signal of high social status

Commitment


Commitment means to show loyalty, duty or pledge to something or someone, and can refer to.

  • the act of committing.
  • the state of being committed.
  • the act of committing, pledging, or engaging oneself.
  • a pledge or promise; obligation: We have made a commitment to pay our bills on time.
  • engagement; involvement: They have a sincere commitment to religion.
  • perpetration or commission, as of a crime.
  • consignment, as to prison.
  • confinement to a mental institution or hospital: The psychiatrist recommended commitment.
  • an order, as by a court or judge, confining a person to a mental institution or hospital.
  • Law. a written order of a court directing that someone be confined in prison; mittimus.
  • Parliamentary Procedure. the act of referring or entrusting to a committee for consideration.

Trust


  • Trust,reliance on another person or entity. Having faith in others and believing them.
  • Orreliance on the integrity, strength, ability, surety, etc., of a person or thing; confidence.
  • confident expectation of something; hope.
  • confidence in the certainty of future payment for property or goods received; credit: to sell merchandise on trust.
  • a person on whom or thing on which one relies: God is my trust.
  • the condition of one to whom something has been entrusted.
  • the obligation or responsibility imposed on a person in whom confidence or authority is placed: a position of trust.
  • charge, custody, or care: to leave valuables in someone's trust.
  • something committed or entrusted to one's care for use or safekeeping, as an office, duty, or the like; responsibility; charge.

Integrity


Integrity as a concept has to do with consistency of actions, values, methods, measures, principles, expectations and outcome. People use integrity as a holistic concept, judging the integrity of systems in terms of those systems' ability to achieve their own goals (if any). A value system's abstraction depth and range of applicable interaction may also function as significant factors in identifying integrity due to their congruence or lack of congruence with empirical observation. A value system may evolve over time while retaining integrity if those who espouse the values account for and resolve inconsistencies.

Some people see integrity as the quality of having a sense of honesty and truthfulness in regard to the motivations for one's actions. Some people use the term hypocrisy in contrast to integrity for asserting that one part of a value system demonstrably conflicts with another, and to demand that the parties holding apparently conflicting values account for the discrepancy or change their beliefs to improve internal consistency (seen as a virtue)

Honesty


Honesty refers to a facet of moral character and denotes positive, virtuous attributes such as integrity, truthfulness, and straightforwardness along with the absence of lying, cheating, or theft.

I think children of such a young age don't heavily rely on honesty as much as older people but its still important and is a trait that needs to be learnt at a young age.

Honesty relates to the football club as i think its important to be completely honest with the fans. The fans need a team they can rely on to play an honest game and get honest results.




Huddersfield Ben


Huddersfield Ben (c. 1865 – 23 September 1871), an early Yorkshire Terrier, is universally acknowledged to be the foundation sire of the breed. In his day Ben won many prizes, both as a show dog and in ratting contests. He had tremendous influence in setting the breed type for the Yorkshire Terrier, a new breed still under development in Ben's day.

Huddersfield Ben, was a championship show winning dog before the Kennel Club awarded 'Champion' titles; he was undoubtedly the father of the modern Yorkshire Terrier. His son Mozart was the first really big winning Yorkshire Terrier shown throughout Britain by Miss Hannah Alderson.

Yorkshire Terriers



The Yorkshire Terrier is a small dog breed of Terrier type, developed in the 1800s in the historical area of Yorkshire in England. The defining features of the breed are its small size and its silky blue and tan coat

The ideal Yorkshire Terrier character or "personality" is described with a "carriage very upright" and "conveying an important air".Though small, the Yorkshire Terrier is intelligent and active, loves attention and should not show the soft temperament seen in lapdogs.

The Yorkshire Terrier breed is bold and active.They are surprisingly brave for such a small breed. They are, however, also quite loyal and affectionate. Yorkshire Terrier puppies are especially loving and cuddly with their owners in their first 2-3 years.







Thursday 18 March 2010

Football Mascots





The term mascot – defined as a term for any person, animal, or object thought to bring luck– colloquially (informally) includes anything used to represent a group with a common public identity, such as a school, professional sports team, society,military unit, or brand name. Mascots are also used as fictional spokespeople for consumer products


Here is a list of football mascots in several different countries http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_association_football_mascots


Name:
Gunnersaurus Rex
Club:
Arsenal






Name:
Hercules Lion
Club:
Aston Villa



Name:
Lofty the Lion
Club:
Bolton Wanderers


Name:

Stamford the Lion
Club:
Chelsea



Anthropomorphism with Kathy Malone - Etsy







This week's trendspotter is clothing designer Kathy Malone of characteristics to nonhuman beings — and she did a little research on the subject for an in-depth review.

I have a confession: as a clothing designer with a lot of time on my hands during the post holiday-period, I indulged myself in the visual smorgasbord of the world of Etsy art. What I found most compelling and extraordinary wa

s the myriad of ways that Etsy artists were employing a device I soon learned was termedanthropomorphism — the assigning of nonhuman attribut

es to human forms, or what I call "pet heads." I set out to learn the artists' inspiration for these otherworldly creatures, which was as varied as the art

work itself, and the history behind this phenomena. I wrote to Dr. Ann Russman, curator of Egyptian art at the Brooklyn Museum, which houses one of the premier collections of Egyptian Art in the world. She says that there "certainly seem to have been anthropomorphic deities already in the predynastic period, to judge from the female figure with upraised arms, apparently a goddess, that appears on painted pots and of which we also have a three-dimensional image."


http://www.etsy.com/storque/spotlight/trends-anthropomorphism-pet-heads-with-kathy-malone-1430/



Wendy of OrangeWillow was on the same page, as she wrote: "As far as inspiration, I can go all the way back to Egyptian art. Throughout history, anthropomorphism is

frequent, and I love looking through all kinds of examples. I try to use a bit of wit though when I create my morphs…I also am crazy for fashion, current and Victorian, which you will often see in my morphs."




Anthropomorphism


Anthropomorphism is the attribution of human characteristics to non-human creatures and beings, phenomena, material states and objects or abstract concepts. Examples include animals, plants and forces of nature such as wind, rain or the sun depicted as creatures with human motivation able to reason and converse.