Famed European designer Marcel Wanders introduced a new chair to the world and declared that there are no new ideas. He’s kinda right, but his solution- “twisting the world and its entangled constructions to surprise each other”- seems to define creativity today, but also the...
There’s much talk around the web today about a printer that’s been developed by a London consulting company called-BERG. Here’s the film. Hello Little Printer, available 2012 from BERG on Vimeo. Here’s what’s important… 1. Printers are the most boring things...
Microsoft has been a tough place to be in recent years, but here's an interesting example of a design team looking outside their category to find relevant inspiration and surely a lesson for everyone to escape from their familiar comfort zone. "A couple years ago the Windows Phone design team...
The ad industry is going through something of a cultural shift and will emerge in a new space where collaboration is going to be a critical component for success,However, collaboration requires trust, honesty and a willingness to work together. This month the One, the One Show has an interesting...
Umair Haque appears to be fighting a one man war with corporate America over their lack of insight and creativity. He's frequently ranting about its myopia and lack of soul and today he's decided to tackle the topic of creativity. Taking the controversy surrounding the Gap logo as his starting...
Everyday it seems like a new canvas emerges that could provide a potential opportunity for engagement. Faced with the rapid pace of change, we sometimes forget about how we can use the technology that already exists, but in a better way.A great example is how Arcade Fire, them again!, thought about...
The big challenge if your a marketer of domestic beer is your scale and ubiquity can be both a blessing and curse. The downside of mass is that you lose your cool pretty fast. While domestics have experimented with more upscale/premium lines and a little bit of packaging innovation, they haven't...
Core77 is one of the champions of design blogging, especially when it comes to industrial design. They've been around long enough to witness the rise and fall and rise again of the discipline; from the adoration of design heroes, to the kick in the pants from the sustainability movement and then on...
I was fortunate enough to hear Stefan Sagmeister speak at Lucid NYC's event last week and it was impressive. Stefan told us a story about his attempt to make a film about happiness and the journey he's been on to discover it and its secrets. This journey has taken him to remote parts of Indonesia...
Coca-Cola has announced it's making chairs out of old PET bottles and aluminum cans and instead of giving these chairs away to high schools in return for vending rights, it's decided to sell them to the unhappy hipster crowd. Interestingly this is just one item from Coke's line of "sustainable...
John Thackara was as provocative as ever in his recent talk given to the School of Visual Arts in New York.Thackara believes that the world's creative people need to face up to the realities of sustainability and not just pay lip service to the concept. He stated that the idea of "new" is fast...
Most of the time creative competitions follow the typical blue sky approach to issuing a challenge; they don't tend to define parameters or any kind of real brief. Creatives then have the huge task of narrowing their thinking down to something meaningful and strategic. You see this a lot with...
The idea of producing less stuff, but better stuff is a hard one to grasp, but something that makes sense to people outside the marketing world.Nicholas Nova discovered this interview with legendary designer Dieter Rams, who lays the blame on marketing for pushing more stuff out there."no one wants...
Most conversations about interaction these days tend to revolve around the digital landscape. It's especially interesting that the more digital we become the less of a physical connection we have to real money and for many the physical presence of coins has become an annoying obstacle to...
The once great Dell is trying to re-invent itself for a world that's radically changed since it first came into being. As the company shifted away from it's focus on the customer, the social network and the blog rose up to call them out, a resurgent Apple has re-defined computing, not just for a...