via Introduction to Collective Intelligence on Vimeo.
so i have another long and inspiring video talk… no this is not a ted talk but a conference way back in 2007 at korea…
what is so powerful of this video is what he said a few years ago is what’s happening now in terms of being global and how we socially interact.
looks to me they had productivity….post it…capture it… visual it…
One of the main changes I made to the workshop structure was a new focus for the break-out sessions. I gave the immersion into client issues much more space. The workshop had two “client immersion sessions” before actually thinking of drafting an innovative business model around the clients. The ultimate task was to re-invent the consulting business model. Instead of getting them to start with business model innovation immediately I made them think about how consulting clients really feel and start innovating from there. This worked out really well, notably because JAM made the outcomes more tangible through images.
Business Model Design and Innovation: The Power of Immersion and Visual Thinking.
They have very nice work, my favorite is the colorful piece in the first picture. well it is geometric (triangle is my natural default design shape) – it is weird but we – designers – have a shape we gravitate to, whether is it a circle, square, an S curve… who knows but only you know or a good observer points that out about your work.
but anyway i love that they don’t have a formula to design and it should be like that because not all problems are the same. each problem is different and must be look at to how to solve it effectively, so if you do formulas you get dull “okay” answers… it is just not satisfying. but look at the article and also they were in objectified which is truly funny how they talk to each other.
How’s your creative process?
There is no set formula. Each project suggests a different approach. Yet, it is true that from the outside, it seems that the process is marked by some essential steps. First, there is thinking and dialog. Then or simultaneously comes the extensive step of drawing. After that or together with it come the steps of the modelling and 3D drawing… that dialog with manual drawing. Last, comes the prototype step … and the process gets back to the beginning: thinking, drawing etc. Until we get satisfied by the project…. [read more]
Walk around the place du Molard in Geneva, Switzerland, and you’ll be walking on stars. Two thousand LED light sources equipped with 10 000 white Power TOPLEDs have been set into the paving stones. As the sun begins to set, the LEDs begin to shine, giving the square a magical aura.
When the Place du Molard was renovated, it was paved with cobble stones, identical to those which one already finds in the city center. Two thousand resin paving stones have been set in between, covering half a percent of the surface of the place. At nightfall the LED illuminated paving stones begin to shine, reproducing the shine and the silver-colored reflections of the Lake Geneva. The illuminated paving stones accumulate when approaching the lake and remind at the twinkling water, which penetrated up to this place in former times.
why is it that my vision is either one step behind or one step ahead? LOVE IT!
originated from Italy, hence “in italiano” – this site well, it is neat but much of the information you have to pay for the pdf reports/research about the general topic area of experience design. it ranges from medical, service, business, consumer… etc etc. (pic is the link)
so overall… reminds of that Chrysler crossfire….the only improvement is the headlight concepts. In personal preferences i prefer cars that has a sharper back end…but A+ on the lighting treatment!
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MILAN 2009 LINK
Milan 09: designers Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec launched a range of upholstered seating called Quilt for furniture brand Established & Sons in Milan last week.
The seating comprises a fibreglass shell and steel frame, covered in stretchy fabric.
Milan 09: Helsinki-based, Japanese designer Arihiro Miyake exhibits an extension cable that incorporates a fabric container for wires at SaloneSatellite in Milan, which ends today.
Called Trush In, the design has two sockets and is presented in green, red and black.
Milan 09: Established & Sons present new work by designers including Sam Hecht of Industrial Facility Alexander Taylor, and Terence Woodgate and John Barnard.
Table, Bench, Chair (above) by Sam Hecht is a bench divided into different configurations of seating by steam-bent, beech frames.
I came across a neat article about the history of harry beck’s graphic input to the now existing subway map style! MUST READ – LINK
Detail from Harry Beck’s 1951 Paris Metro map design (which was rejected by the city’s transport authorities). Used by kind permission London Transport Museum
The Royal Mail recently commemorated one of the UK’s greatest works of visual information design when Harry Beck’s London Underground diagram was included for the first time on a British postage stamp writes Mark Ovenden. The importance of Beck’s rectilinear, topologic 1933 diagram is widely recognised and praised by graphic designers. Many wonder why Beck never extended his ideas outside London. The answer is, he did – to the nearest major subway network to London: Paris.
