October 2009
69 posts
creative commons x London School of Economics →
great image resource from the London School of Economics
Playing with Search Engines and making lowly web... →
The new feathers in one’s cap needn’t be off-prints of articles from far-flung journals or a coloured handbill from a Senegalese playhouse, but a URL or three. (Richard Rogers, 1998)(via mediamatic)
“..the capacity for iterative-rounds of team building, rather than the diversity...”
– Rethinking Crowdsourcing (beyond Howe) « hypios
an oldie but a goody, Kevin Kelly on Open... →
“The engineers don’t get paid in money; rather they get better tools than they can buy, tools that can be easily tweaked by them for maximum performance, tools superior to what they can make alone, and tools that increase in network value, since they are given away.”
“via @psfk Nearly everyone reads. Soon, nearly everyone will publish. Before...”
– The Coming Age of Universal Authorship - via PSFK
“The zeitgeist says it’s far too early to dream about constructing your...”
– How Cisco Created Their Own Talent Incubator - Sylvia Ann Hewlett - Harvard Business Review
Does Intergrative Creavity Exist Today? Where Do... →
“Strategy” is distancing itself from “Competition” and “Innovation” is distancing itself from “Invention”. Strategy now needs design and design needs strategy in order to have impact. Met John Maeda today and his idea of the difference between art and design is design should is being ”relevant” and art should is being “free” and design is “producable” and art is “imaginable”. Those are good...
takaharu and yui tezuka - interview with the... →
“The new model for news curation and selection, I feel, will be a balance of...”
– Craig Newmark: A Nerd’s Take On The Future Of News Media
“The central task in a gift economy is to keep the gifts moving…..But the...”
– New Rules for the New Economy
Your Next Electric BMW May Not Come With Any... →
“If you live in New York City or Toronto you will often encounter bike messengers speeding pass you just a few inches away. The problem is you don’t know they are coming because there aren’t making any sound. When electric cars eventually get popular, the same problem will arise. Because they are so quiet, it can be dangerous if you are crossing the street and couldn’t hear them. Those...
The Importance of Listening & Humility In Research... →
“Chipchase’s emphasis on humility, in both research process and life, is a genuine distinction, which our team found most admirable. Much of his work takes place in emerging markets, places like Uganda, India and rural China, where the realities of the power balance make meaningful exchanges difficult. Even after listening to Chipchase for an hour, it is clear that not only his intense...
“What information consumes is rather obvious: It consumes the attention of its...”
– New Rules for the New Economy - CLASSIC KELLY
Children’s Books Come to Life on the City’s... →
“Elbow-Toe is an active New York City street artist who places large linocuts across lower Manhattan and Brooklyn. Often these pieces are one-of-a-kind works that draw from literary sources and interact with the environment in which they’re placed. Elbow-Toe walks the city identifying special places for his “people” to live, resulting in images that are powerful and as emotionally torn as...
“To become a world-class center of technological innovation, a society must have...”
– McKinsey: What Matters: Asia and the elements of innovation
When Innovation Goes Wrong via blogging innovation →
“Ever since innovation became the buzzword du Jour, a lot of people seem to have lost their ability to tell smart ideas from stupid ones.”
Zygmunt Bauman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia →
Bauman has become best known for his analyses of the links between modernity and the Holocaust, and of postmodern consumerism.
trendwatching.com's October 2009 Trend Briefing... →
Everybody’s Business - Subscriptions Keep... →
“Convince someone to take a subscription, and the revenue flows in for months to come. “It is amazing how inertia takes over,” says Peter S. Fader, a marketing professor at the University of Pennsylvania. Anyone who has signed up for a gym membership that is paid for but not used understands the genius behind subscriptions. There is another reason that marketers use them: When a product has...
Social Enterprises Will Become The Next Big Global... →
“10 of the top 100 most popular brands in 5 years time will be Social Enterprise Brands. What are they? They are a new form of organizations. We see more and more development of a mixed economy of companies coming together to further progress on social, economic & environmental well being. Expect to plenty of innovation where Social Technologies meet Social Enterprises…..”
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Follow the Free (an oldie but a goody) via New... →
“As crackpot as it sounds, in the distant future nearly everything we make will (at least for a short while) be given away free—refrigerators, skis, laser projectors, clothes, you name it. This will only make sense when these items are pumped full of chips and network nodes, and thus capable of delivering network value………………”
Phonetikana - the johnson banks thought for the... →
“Multiple trips to Japan and constant frustration at being unable to read the language has sparked off an unusual typographic project at johnson banks. Earlier in the year we started seeing if we could combine the English language and Japanese script in some way.”
The Nobel prize for economics: The bigger picture... →
Mr Williamson and Ms Ostrom work independently of each other but both have contributed plenty to economists’ understanding of which institutions—firms, markets, governments, or informal systems of social norms, for example—are best suited for conducting different types of economic transactions. Why, for example, do some transactions take place within firms, while others are carried out in...
Engadget reader meetup in Tokyo.... →
127: Miniturization as Product Concept Generator «... →
* Focusing on making things smaller – an ‘innate propensity’ of Japanese culture can lead to creative product ideas.
Example: Plus and Company developed a bulky portable copier for copying images on a blackboard. It failed but a group of researchers persisted in making it smaller and smaller until it was ‘pocket-sized’. This led to a ‘pocket razor sized’ photocopier which was bought by Matsushita...
“There should be taxation according to people’s ability to pay for the common...”
– Harvard’s Sandel Says Free Markets, Bonuses, Are Not Sacrosanct - Bloomberg.com
The Future of the Workplace [Monocle] →
“In the first edition of Monocle’s Design Dialogues, an intimate series of discussions on key design issues, we throw the spotlight on the future of the workplace.”
NJP Design Award: Have A Good Sex via... →
“This informational booklet, more in league visually with the packaging of Escalator Records‘ releases than any sexual health literature I’ve witnessed in Japan (or the U.S.), stands proud as a breakout piece of graphic design in its category.”
Nendo and Moleskine - JeanSnow.net →
“By cutting the pages of the sketchbook to create a three-dimensional landscape, we wanted to show the way that sketches function in the space between two and three dimensions, and to present the sketchbook itself as a “place.””
“Leadership plays a central role in the success of many
forms of online creative...”
– Leadership in Online Creative Collaboration (pdf Object)
Transfer Digital Data Just by Touching Hands -... →
RSVP: Good Ideas Salon, Tokyo - PSFK →
On October 20, PSFK and Nissan will host a Good Ideas Salon in Tokyo. For the event, Piers Fawkes (PSFK) will moderate a conversation on “Pure Living” with two panels of distinguished guests. Together, we will explore perspectives on pure living and how it is currently manifesting itself in design, technology, urban living, and transportation.
“It’s hardly news that the Internet has evolved into the primary vehicle for...”
– Managing beyond Web 2.0 - McKinsey Quarterly - Business Technology - Strategy
Watch“Dane imagining the possibilities for what “learning” using the Smart.fm iPhone app could look and feel like. ” : Smart.fm iPhone App: Learning Experience Concepts, 1 of 2 on Vimeo (via Vimeo
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Watch“How do you design the best possible custom bike shop experience? Adaptive Path worked with Mission Bicycle to create a simple way for customers to confidently design their dream bicycle in the company’s new retail space.” - Mission Bicycle Retail Experience on Vimeo (via Vimeo
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Workshoppe: A Personal Think-Tank and Loft Space -... →
Into Infinity - Superb project →
“INTO INFINITY is an art and music exhibition presented by DUBLAB and Creative Commons. It is built on audio loops and circular canvases that are available online to the public for sharing, remixing, and resubmission.”
Twenty-One People Who Will Change Business: Recent... →
Recent D-School Grads Graduates of interdisciplinary design programs are putting their skills to work as innovation consultants, researchers, and corporate strategists. Here are 21 design thinkers out to change the world.
Mediamatic.net - Robots are so cool! (A... →
Rethinking Global Innovation - BusinessWeek →
The “Missing Middle”
The Nano Model
“GE, GM, Unilever, and others have found novel ways to prosper in emerging markets. Companies that follow the pattern of combining deep market understanding with innovative approaches to create, deliver, and capture value can also realize that long-elusive fortune at the bottom of the pyramid.”
Ten Ways to Measure Design's Success -... →
1. Purchase Influence
2. New Markets
3. Brand Image and Corporate Reputation
4. Time to Market
5. Cost Savings
6. Enable Product and Service Innovation
7. Develop Communities of Customers
8. Create Intellectual Property
9. Improve usability
10. Improve Sustainability
Enduring ideas: Portfolio of initiatives -... →
The portfolio-of-initiatives framework, developed in the early 2000s by McKinsey director Lowell Bryan, draws on ideas such as the three horizons of growth and Hugh Courtney’s levels of uncertainty1 and offers a way to develop strategy in a more fluid, less predictable environment.
On the creative climate and innovativeness at the... →
The paper presents an explorative study on creative climate and innovativeness at the county level in the EU27
“Recessions shake things up rather than slowing them down. They reward strengths...”
– Schumpeter: Thriving on adversity | The Economist
Online video and audio: programmes and multimedia... →
The senior director of strategy at Progress Software on how universities and governments can encourage entrepreneurship
Structuring Experiments for Success - Conversation... →
Here are four guidelines to consider when you’re launching your next innovation initiative or considering who to hire in your research department.
- Seek uncertainty and variance in pay-offs.
- Seek uncertainty and variance in pay-offs.
- Look for contestants from the outside.
- Balance near and far horizon.
“Perhaps one of the most important and delicate balances that great entrepreneurs...”
– Vulnerability: The Defining Trait of Great Entrepreneurs - Anthony Tjan - HarvardBusiness.org