Posts Tagged ‘innovation’

SEE Bulletin: exploring matters related to design and beyond

Thursday, February 18, 2010 16:45 No Comments

The second issue of SEE Bulletin, the only publication entirely dedicated to exploring matters related to design policies and programmes for design support across Europe and beyond, has just been released and it’s really good! A ‘must’ for anyone interested in issues concerning design and innovation policies.
Contents include a research paper by Prof. John Heskett [...]

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Tokyo vs Cairo: Comparing Obama’s Foreign Policy Speeches

Tuesday, November 17, 2009 17:02 2 Comments

Above is data derived from a visual text comparison tool [blprnt.com] developed by artist Jer Thorp using Processing v.1.0. The tool enables a simple comparison of two texts based on their word usage.
In this case the comparison is made between two open addresses delivered by President Barack Obama: on the far left his speech [...]

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‘Essen for Ruhr’: transforming a region into a leading European metropolis

Friday, September 18, 2009 16:17 1 Comment

“Essen for the Ruhr“, is the capital of Culture 2010. It represents 53 cities, towns and districts and 5.3 million inhabitants, making it the third largest conurbation in Western Europe (after London and Paris). It is the first time that the capital of culture has been designated to an entire region (it’s usually [...]

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Design Revolution: 100 Products That Empower People

Wednesday, September 16, 2009 17:24 No Comments

‘Design Revolution:100 Products That Empower People” is a book by Emily Pilloton, industrial designer and founder of Project H design a charitable organization that supports, creates, delivers, and scales life-improving humanitarian product design solutions. The book, which has caused a lot of excitement on the blogsphere, tweetspace and in design circles all over, showcases 100 [...]

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Experience design shapes the cities of the future

Thursday, September 3, 2009 17:25 No Comments

Experientia: putting people first is an international Turin-based experience design company that provides innovative user-centered design services to companies helping them to create user-friendly products. Experientia also share their research and knowledge with online readers through their much-loved and widely read blog that delivers daily insights - just about all you need to know - [...]

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