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Featured Articles, Industrial Design, Strategic Foresight, Strategic Innovation, Transportation Desgin, 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,...
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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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Innovation used to be referred to be a virtuous and closed cycle. Spend money on research, develop a new big idea, create a new product, reap the benefits, and do it all over again. These days, the model of closed innovation has cracked. A workforce with less organizational loyalty, faster time to market,...
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As designers/industrial designers/architects/visionary futurists we must be able to employ many tools, and with the passing of the hand-drawn ship curves we are now permanently entering the realm of an almost fully digital process. With so many new softwares becoming available, the creative...
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On April 20th, I participated as a judge in the interactive portion of the National Advertising Awards. Joined by a crew of seasoned interactive veterans, we evaluate 15 submissions. While I can’t share what ideas won (you’ll need to wait until May the 12th to find out), I can let you in...
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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...
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Media companies seem to be falling over themselves trying to prop up revenues in an ever-changing environment. Yet, there seems to be very little innovation in how they’re going about it. For the last several weeks, much has been written about Rupert Murdoch’s plans to de-index from Google and...
Articles, Service Design, Strategic Innovation, sustainability
This past summer, I left my apartment in Milan, Italy for a farm in Normandy, France; That’s right – I voluntarily traded Prada for permaculture. Little did I know that I was leaving a design capital to get a serious design lesson. Rubber boots and metal sheers in tow, I was ready to heave...
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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...
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