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From car design to innovation consultant – a story about joining Idea Couture

Posted by: Jesse Diephuis, at 10:41 am on June 17, 2010

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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Bygone Nostalgic Design VS. the Emerging World.  Part 2

Posted by: Jesse Diephuis, at 8:03 pm on May 20, 2010

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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Bygone Nostalgic Design VS. the Emerging World.  Part 1

Posted by: Jesse Diephuis, at 10:01 am on May 18, 2010

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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Classifying Crowdsourcing Platforms

Posted by: Patrick Glinski, at 9:15 am on April 27, 2010

Modeling the role of crowdsourcing in an organization’s innovation process.

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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From Logs to Logarithms

Posted by: Jesse Diephuis, at 1:22 pm on April 20, 2010

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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Do you tell the client they’re wrong?

Posted by: Patrick Glinski, at 8:57 am on April 20, 2010

We’ve all been there before. A request gets dropped on our desk that looks for the right answer to the wrong problem. When it happens, you’re put in a tough situation… so what do you do?

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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Search. Chat. Email. Facebook?

Posted by: Adam Rubin, at 9:00 am on February 9, 2010

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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Old Media, Old Habits

Posted by: Richard Lee, at 7:00 am on December 14, 2009

Quick… our business model is broken… let’s go back to what’s worked before… a long time ago.

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...

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Prada vs. Permaculture

Posted by: Riwa Harfoush, at 10:04 am on November 19, 2009

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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An Innovative Breeze. Meet the Dyson Air Multiplier.

Posted by: Adam Rubin, at 7:34 am on October 13, 2009

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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