January 2010
16 posts
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Consumerism in the Wild, Wild East: What to Know... →
This was a blog article I wrote for my company (Artefact), primarily to show that we’ve done some serious research and thinking around what it takes to design products (we tend to do consumer electronics, like mobile phones, media devices, home entertainment, etc.) for China. The lessons/insights/points are more general than specific, but our hope was to start an ongoing dialogue with our...
Jan 29th
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Interesting Article: Designing for China
http://www.artefactgroup.com/blog/2010/01/consumerism-in-the-wild-wild-east-what-to-know-about-designing-for-china/
Jan 29th
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Good Design. Best Practices, Haiti
http://www.good.is/post/steal-this-design-the-power-of-sharing-best-practices-in-moments-of-disaster
Jan 29th
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2009 Nicholas Felton Annual Report
A year in the life: http://feltron.com/index.php?/content/2009_annual_report/
Jan 27th
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Black is the New White(board)
Tiered of constantly erasing the whiteboards that get used and re-used every 5 seconds? This new product - called a boogie board is a digital writing surface that costs only $30 or so and seems to work like a whiteboard - except that it erases with the push of a button! You can only write and draw in the color of green, but you can use anything to write - your hand, a pen with a cap on it - a...
Jan 27th
The Winchester Job Interview Theory
I read Scott Berkun’s blog regularly and saw this post on job interviews today.  http://bit.ly/70uUNd I thought it was amusing and timely with Recruit ID approaching.
Jan 26th
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Jan 23rd
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Huge Collection of Graphic Design and Strategic...
I’ve collected these graphic Design Related websites over the years and have begun a collection for strategic design since I started here at ID - I’m a hoarder and collector so there is a lot to sift though, but hopefully you’ll find them useful. Let me know of any sites you’d recommend and I’ll add them to the list. here are the 2 links:...
Jan 20th
Tag Team Back Again...
would love to see some stuff at ID done with this (even if it’s just a bunch of whiteboard sketches) Graffiti Analysis
Jan 20th
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Jan 20th
Dan Published a Book
Some of you are aware, and some of you are not, that I have been writing an entrepreneurship book over the course of the past three years.  One of the reasons that I am at ID is that my undergraduate entrepreneurship classes were great at telling me how to start a business once I had an idea, but terrible at describing how to generate compelling business ideas in the first place.  When I...
Jan 18th
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ID Represented in IxDA Student Design Competition →
Congrats to Daniel Erwin, Radhika Gupta, and Yixiu Wu for being finalist in the IxDA Student Design Competition. Their design, called Scoop, “supports informal learning by encouraging context-dependent information to be exchanged among friends and interest groups, through physical tags left in the city.” Daniel Erwin will represent the team at the upcoming Interaction10 conference...
Jan 17th
How to Thrive by Design in Tough Times →
An article from American Association of Museums how low-cost library makeover can make newbie visitors into hardcore patrons.  Circulation and gate count have skyrocketed and people who haven’t been inside a public library in decades are lining up for library cards.
Jan 17th
Multicultural Critical Theory. At B-School? ... →
Jan 11th
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ID Hardware Sketching Workshop Featured on IDEO... →
Dave Vondle, who lead a Saturday Hardware Sketching Workshop at ID, posted about the event on IDEO Lab’s website. Follow the link to see videos and photos of all the mini projects from the workshop.
Jan 11th
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Robert David (PHOTO 1973) exhibition @IIT
Robert David Photographs January 26 – March 31, 2010 Gallery Lounge Hermann Hall 3241 South Federal Street Chicago, IL 60616 Opening Reception Tuesday, January 26, 2010 4-7 pm Remarks about the exhibit at 6 pm Civil engineering and visual art come together in a new photography exhibition of work by IIT alumnus Robert David (DSGN ‘73). David developed both his career in...
Jan 8th