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There are an uncountable number of business-related sites, articles, and books that use the phrase ‘real world.’ You can get an endless number of books or services offering insight into ‘real world’ business problems. You can go to a business school for ‘real world’ learning. You can get a black belt in Six Sigma to [...] Read more...
Conditions are ripe for collaborative design to take place in creating solutions beyond Industrial Design programs and outside of traditional R&D centers of Automotive OEMs. Read more...
You might think that the biggest challenge in any new project is doing the work itself, but that’s actually not the case. The biggest hurdle we face when we kick-off a project is usually trust. Our fuzzy front-end innovation process means that right from the get-go, we need to win our clients’ trust to guide [...] Read more...
How does the performance of the Toronto Maple Leafs impact my relationship with the team? Read more...
Karen Armstrong won the TED Prize on February 28, 2008, and made a wish: for help creating, launching and propagating a Charter for Compassion. Since that day, thousands of people have contributed to the process and yesterday, the Charter was unveiled to the world. The Charter for Compassion is a cooperative effort to restore not [...] Read more...
In an age where we have Google and Microsoft mapping technology available that allows us to see such voyeuristic details as the front door of a building or a bird’s eye view of a celebrity’s backyard, it’s sometimes refreshing to look at a road map with a different lens, one that only reveals the country’s [...] Read more...
I’ve traveled to many a cycling loving city including Amsterdam and Copenhagen and they live in stark contrast to our city’s bicycle culture. With few dedicated bike lanes, sparse parking facilities and a passive aggressive car vs. bike culture relationship, it’s amazing that people in this city even cycle at all. But we do – [...] Read more...
A show stopper at the Royal College of Art’s graduate show is… a plug? A student has tackled a design problem that has been ignored for decades – how to change the fist-sized plugs used in electronics in the UK. What’s amazing about this is how a major annoyance has been ignored for so long. [...] Read more...
Creating real life products that have the aesthetics of fantasy is a trend we’ve seen before. The steam punk movement is an incredibly romantic example of this. The Wand Company has recently introduced a re-imagined television remote, integrating classic remote features into a gyroscope-enabled magic wand. 13 programmable features allow you to control your TV [...] Read more...
When was the last time we saw an innovation in the “fan” product category? This guy gives a quick demo. I love love this product. http://www.dyson.com/fans/ The Dyson Air Multiplier™ fan works very differently to conventional fans. It uses Air Multiplier™ technology to draw in air and amplify it 15 times, producing an uninterrupted stream of [...] Read more...
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