Our new find!

Recently DKB outerwear has updated all of our computers and built a few of our own just because we had nothing else better to do. When we came to picking out hard drives, we thought it was a good idea and by them used of the web. After they were shipped, someone told me about that nothing on a used hard drive is really deleted and it will always be there until you destroy it. A few down loads later and we recovered everything on both hard drives and you wouldn't believe what we found!

Turns out that one of the drives had two owners and one of them was Saga outerwear before they hit big. I found all of there original designs and then some! They had some really good ideas that were never released and would probably make a killing if were. Also I found some other logo ideas and other design that aren't really a big deal, but what really is a big deal was finding all of there sales with information from consumers such as credit cards, address, phone numbers and what they ordered. Whats even a bigger deal then all of that was the owners took out a credit card in the company's name...that means I have all of the info I need to bankrupt Saga, but being nice people and believing in karma and everything, we simply just told them about the hole situation and they were happy with it. We all got new Saga outwear and in the future make sure to look for a DKB Saga collaboration project.

The other hard drive I brought wasn't all that interesting because it was owned by just a normal person. All I could come up with was some address, credit card numbers and any other things that you would imagine would be on a persons computer. The lesion here is never sell your old hard drive no mater what. The easy thing to do it just have fun destroying it! Try it when you get a new computer. You do this by burning it (not so safe for the environment but gets the job done), smashing it to bits, or getting a really shredder and just put it through that.

Facebook protection PSA...and excal

Everyone knows how popular social media is and all of the perks that it can bring anyone and everyone. Everything good always comes with some bad things especially when it comes to security on any social media site but mostly Facebook. If you where to go onto Google right now and searched your name you would be surprised on all of the things you would find. Next from Google, go onto you Facebook and try to view anything on it....what can you see? As part of DKB outerwear, I would like to inform you on things you should watch out for.

Its very to hide all of the stuff that your seeing right now that you dint want anyone besides your friends see. Fist off, just log into Facebook and untag any pictures your in of your friends that you don't want to be in. Most of the time, Google images will find those pics and use them when someone searches your name. Second, you can go into your account privacy settings and change things so some people can't see certain things or so that they can. At DKB, we have everything open so that anyone can view our page and see all of our cool steezy pictures. The last thing that you can do to help protect your self with online safety and protection on social media is just don't post anything that you wouldn't want your grandparents to see! This is the easiest rule to follow. simply be careful of what you post, that means don't go on Facebook after a night of fun ;).

On a side note, we have diced to use excel as our main program on keeping inventory and orders. This is probably one of the easiest programs to use and will keep everything very organized so we don't lose any of your orders. From here, we are able to do virtually everything with that data given. Every month, we will be posting a review on the products that we sell the most of so that we can inform you on whats popular these days so that you can order them asap.

 

DKB First

What inspired me to chose creating a new outerwear company was my love for skiing and the lack of outerwear companies that have coats and apparel that are appealing to the freeskier. Last year I entered a contest do design any article of clothing that I wanted to for a company called first drop outerwear. Unfortunately I did not win but did place high in a field of 350 people. Being able to create all of the things that my friends and I wanted to see in a product was a lot of fun and really made me think about how much time goes into creating a simple bandana.

Technology is going to have a big roll in getting this line out there and in the design department too. The two main programs that I will be using in design is Photoshop and Illustrator. These programs are my favorite to use whenever I'm bored and have nothing to do. You can do so many different things such as effects, shapes, color, 3D, filters, etc. I have spent days on some of my projects and it has been well worth it. For me, these programs are the hardest to use at first but after a wile you get use to things and everything becomes very easy.I have already designed a logo for this company in Illustrator and will eventually start creating new products starting with simple stuff like t-shirts and hats and then work my way up to the outerwear.

Social media is whats going to make or brake this company. DKB will eventually be on all types of social media besides myspace only because myspace is dead! Facebook, twitter, and youtube/vimeo is going to be a big help on getting the label out there. Facebook is always good with advertising and will be a good place to drop the new stuff I come out with be sides the company's website. Everyone loves twitter simply because it is short and to the point. Perfect for just random things that we will be doing such as when we are coming out with new product or idea suggestions or when we have give a ways or contests, just stuff like that. Youtube and vimeo is where we will have all of our skiing videos of people wearing our product so the viewers can see how much style DKB products have.