February 2012
7 posts
Being wrong...
There is something liberating about embracing failure. Being in the middle of the Foundation year I am intimately familiar with this feeling. You have to surrender to it and only then does it cease to be a destructive force in your life.
As Kathryn Schultz ably points out in her TED talk, we are socially conditioned to “be right” all the time. Our perception of value and success is...
Watchon being wrong…something we are all vaguely familiar with…or is it?
Field Notes, NYC Design Week 2009
Want a break from staring at service design diagrams and business frameworks? Then we invite you to take a look at the work of Craighton Berman. Our thanks to Jessica Barnes for calling this to our attention.
From Craighton’s site:
Craighton is interested in using design as a tool for crafting experiences and bringing ideas to life. He has worked on projects that range from physical to...
We’d like to pass on some work that was introduced to us recently from a fellow classmate, Jose Mello. Below is a brief synopsis from Jose himself…
Jose Mello is an innovation manager at Banco Itau Unibanco who conceived and implemented this project in 7 months partnering with Livework Studio, a British service design firm with offices in Sao Paulo. This project was a game changer...
Looking forward
Dear readers,
2012 promises to be an exciting year for the Institute of Design and the ID community. There is the highly anticipated book release by our very own Vijay Kumar. ID is celebrating it’s 75th anniversary with some special events in the works. We have two world class conferences that promise to deliver a wealth of new perspectives. And finally we have the wonderfully diverse ID...
Signing off
Dear readers,
It has been a pleasure serving as editors of The New Idiom for the past year.
During our editorship, we established social media integration, involved more members of the ID community, integrated new forms of multimedia, and increased readership subscriptions. We believe The New Idiom has a stronger platform on which to grow.
We now pass the torch to the new editors, Paul...