your inspiration goes here:

the job search has included a number of interesting prospects. most of them have pretty much led me to decide that the best idea is to build my own perfect job, and being that i've done a bunch of work on fragments of this beast before, it seems quite doable.

it's re-store + scrap exchange and thus far, it has entailed filling out a lot of forms.

the first line of all the forms is "name of organization." i haven't gotten terribly far.

for your reference, here's what it's based upon:
a) http://www.restoredane.org/home.cfm
b) http://www.scrapexchange.org
c) http://www.thereusecenter.com/
d) http://www.reversegarbage.org.au/

here's what i've come up with thus far. inspire me.

1) something like TRASH Store to stand for something like Totally
Recycled Art Supply and Home Store
2) anything with the tagline "creative reuse center"
3) the words exchange, upcycle
4) the concept of "wabi sabi" - both in the japanese aesthetic sense
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wabi-sabi) and the moab thrift store
sense (http://www.wabisabimoab.org/)


for logo, anything involving a cherry tree...

http://books.google.com/books?id=E7dHf3DuyfEC&pg=PA72&lpg=PA72&dq=cherry+tree+cradle+to+cradle&source=bl&ots=3PaC_lsG7w&sig=FmIv2rNEHv-KMzbVgTYhxW3vwgk&hl=en&ei=ktTeSZP_Et-InAfAlaSmCQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3#PPA72,M1

provided that's not too much of a stretch. everything has a recycling
arrow on it. it's trite, overused, and approaching meaningless.

thoughts?