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Two weekends ago, I had the privilege of representing Idea Couture at the Compost Modern conference here in San Francisco. Organized by AIGA SF, “‘Compostmodern’ engages designers, sustainability professionals, artists and entrepreneurs to collaborate in realizing a more environmentally, culturally, and economically sustainable world.” While you can read many recaps on the conference that have [...] Read more...
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 ideas that better [...] Read more...
There are 365 days in the year and our travel luggage spends most of that time buried away in the closet. When luggage is not being used, it takes away valuable space, and adds to the frustration of clutter creating awkward surfaces that are difficult integrate with other items. After 100 years in the travel [...] Read more...
Every one of us at Idea Couture has our own “outside of work” creative and quirky passions — that’s what makes us such effective creative and interesting professionals. For example, one of us runs a Design Collective, another plays in a rock-band, and yet another is a hard-core marathon runner. As for me, come every [...] Read more...
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, I worked on new [...] Read more...
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 people we would like [...] Read more...
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 in luxurious country estates that could house and [...] Read more...
Modeling the role of crowdsourcing in an organization's innovation process. Read more...
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 process itself has become fully encompassed with digital tools for every aspect of [...] Read more...
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? Read more...
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