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Is this the Most Innovative Song in Post-Millenial Pop Music? Pitchfork named OutKast’s “B.O.B” the Song of The Decade proclaiming even that it “is the decade…effectively crafting a fast-forwarded highlight-reel prophecy of what the next 10 years held in store.” It remains to be seen where...
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The phenomenon of cheaper, faster, better (better in terms of having more options) is more a result of global economics than it is a corporate mandate. If you think about Bauhaus (the origins of Industrial Design) and how it was intended to provide a social service of making houses and household product...
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,...
Featured Articles, Industrial Design, Strategic Foresight, Strategic Innovation, Transportation Design, Uncategorized
My career up until 2007 had been about design and styling on the exteriors and interiors of automobiles. This type of design work is essential for car companies, as it is better aligns the appearances and function with the demographic in mind for a brand. While working at GM Holden in Australia,...
Articles, Ethnography, Experience Design, Featured Articles, Industrial Design, Service Design, Social Change, Strategic Foresight, Strategic Innovation, Technology, Transportation Design, Uncategorized
To address better ways of integrating Transportation in Urban environments requires a very wide-angle perspective lens in order to view the whole scenario of life in an urban environment as well as those in and around the emerging world. It requires that we put ourselves on the same streets of the...
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Traditionally, the notion of Beauty and Elegance is what makes classic examples of automotive design, which is designed to encourage observers to dream about an irreverent future. In the early days of the 1920’s and 1930’s these notions of dramatic proportions were predicated on people who lived...
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So, Facebook is evolving. With emphasis on at least 3 core web services – search, chat and the upcoming email – Facebook is getting more serious about functions that Google, among others, are doing well at providing. It makes sense. So here are some quick thoughts on what 400 million users...
CSR, Social Change, Strategic Foresight, Technology
What if we knew exactly where our trash was going and how much energy it took to make it disappear? Would it make us think twice about buying bottled water or “disposable” razors? The supply chain for products we use is something that has undergone rigorous analysis and innovations that...
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People tinker, they build, remix, they repurpose, reverse and perverse engineer. They crack open the housing. Look under the hood. They view the source. We have always made things, and have been defined by what we make and how it was made. Today the ‘refresh rate’ of the majority of physical objects...
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