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Yale Fox is a DJ and nightclub sociologist living and working between Las Vegas and New York City. In 2010, while working towards his PhD at the University of Toronto, Yale was contacted by a prominent Las Vegas nightclub – one of the highest rated in the world. So began Yale Fox’s transition from...
Business Models, Featured Articles, Featured Explorations, Social Change, Uncategorized
Social enterprises exist, and strive, to become a new form of organization to effectively solve some of the most pressing challenges within our society. There is a wide, and probably growing, gap between the scale of the problems we face and the scale of the solutions on offer. Creative ways for advancing...
Featured Articles, Featured Explorations, Retail Design
When thinking about luxury, the first question that comes to mind is, what is a luxury brand? I am sure there are thousands of brands that would be quick to think of themselves as luxury brands but are they right? Many so-called luxury goods fall into the category of ‘nouveau luxe’ or afforded luxury...
Ethnography, Featured Articles, Featured Explorations, Strategic Innovation
In a recent blog post, Grant McCracken suggests it is the job of designers to conduct provocation and innovation through pie. He points to Project M as the source of this uniquely American metaphor with its Pie + Conversation = Ideas/Ideas + Design = Positive Change equation. As a first step towards...
Explorations, Featured Explorations, Strategic Foresight
I Recently had the pleasure of visiting the Kaos Pilots in Aarhus Denmark. The school focuses on developing change-agents and action oriented revolutionaries through pedagogic models like appreciated inquiry, action learning, and systems thinking. The school uniquely combines elements of business,...
Explorations, Featured Explorations
Time Inc. put out a video today of what will be (and in some cases envision) the ‘new magazine’. Unfortunately, the ‘new magazine’, is a lot like the old magazine, only digital instead of a paper product. Magazines are currently a dying breed. There simply isn’t enough...
Experience Design, Explorations, Featured Explorations, Service Design
Recently I’ve been having some problems with my cell phone, but who hasn’t, right? Whenever I send out a text message, my friends receive 4 or 5 duplicates of that same message. After getting multiple complains from many people and becoming hesitant when sending out any sort of text, I was finally...
Experience Design, Explorations, Featured Explorations, Industrial Design
There is something profoundly valuable about the ability to offer someone a seat when there are none available.
Explorations, Featured Explorations, Industrial Design
100 Wishes is a participative memoriam built upon the metaphor of the dandelion. As the dandelion plant matures, its flowers turn into white fluffy seeds, which are distributed by wind and travel like tiny parachutes. When they find a place of rest they begin to grow again, symbolizing rebirth and...
Explorations, Featured Explorations, Technology
Having spent the last post pondering about tabs and their relevance to User Interfaces, it got me thinking about the taskbar that is now standard in Windows 7. Having had barely any experience with Vista (only a few days before I was unhappy and tried the beta of Windows 7), it came as a surprise to...
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