History of Nintendo card business reached its saturation point. Japanese households stopped buying playing cards, and the price of Nintendo stock fell from 900 yen to 60 yen. In 1965, Nintendo hired Gunpei Yokoi as a maintenance engineer for the assembly line. However, Yokoi soon became famous for much more than his ability to repair conveyor belts. Nintendo struggled to survive in the Japanese toy industry; it was still small at this point, and dominated by already well-established companies such as Bandai and Tomy. Because of the generally short product life cycle of toys, the company always had to come up with new
Design For All (product line) is an important factor in that success. Target works with Culture & Commerce to find designers that they will partner with for new product designs. Design For All (product line) Design For All is a range of designer products made available at discount retailers by the Target Corporation. In the late 1990s, the Target Corporation began designer partnerships to bring products created by well known designers in different disciplines to their retail stores. This notion of designers creating products that could be made available at discount retailers would be later labeled as 'Design For All' by the Target Corporation. Target