Design That Solves Problems for the World’s Poor - New York Times
(tags: design inspiration socialentrepreneur poverty BoP)
Design For the Other 90% | Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum
(tags: design sustainability development education exhibition BoP)
Bask in this glory: A friend and colleague of mine at ID just sent me the NY Times’s most popular article for today, May 29, 2007, aptly titled:
“Design that Solves Problems for the World’s Poor“
Nice!
It references the Cooper Hewitt (which I visited earlier this year), Martin Fischer’s Kickstart, and has a small gallery that shows […]
Vitaly Friedman’s Notebook: List of nifty tools for drawing diagrams, charts and flow-charts
(tags: tools design charts illustrator graph)
New recycling bins in Bucktown
Mayor Richard Daley of Chicago announced that he wanted to make Chicago the Greenest city ever. It would appear that lately, steps have been taken to actually make this a possibility. For instance, recently our street (and many other streets in our neighborhood of Bucktown have […]
McKinsey & Company - The ’Bird of Gold’: The Rise of India’s Consumer Market - May 2007
(tags: india economics business McKinsey)
» 34 Places to Get Design Inspiration - Online and Off
(tags: design inspiration)
Hack Attack: Automatically upload a folder’s photos to Flickr - Lifehacker
(tags: flickr python photos)
flickr picture credit: J. Star.
Well, at long last, restaurants have decided to do the right thing. Start offering smaller portions, for a lower price. I really distaste eating out sometimes, when eateries have a tendency to give me mammoth sized entrees, frown at me when I want to share it with someone, and charge me […]
33 New Ways To Overclock Your Brain at Ririan Project
(tags: brain health lifehacks productivity memory mind)
Top 50 Logo Design Tutorials | E Logo Design
(tags: logo design graphics)
60 Elegant and Visually Appealing Designs | Smashing Magazine
(tags: design inspiration css)
Vegetarian Restaurant Shanghai China Health Food Stores and vegan restaurants
(tags: vegetarian shanghai china food travel)
Train travel in China […]
So, I’ve started making my list of summertime goals and #3 on the list is get back to updating my blog on a regular basis.
I thought I’d have more time, since school is over, but that time is rapidly becoming filled with work. This summer, I am working on a research project here in […]
Wow. It’s almost 2am, the night before a huge Strategy Conference that we (Institute of Design) are hosting at the Museum of Contemporary Art. I really should be sleeping right now, I know, but there is so much to be done and besides, I am excited to listen to the interesting speakers […]
Sriram and Woojin at Charette
This past weekend, we had another design charette for Wonjoon Chung, a graduating PhD student at the Institute of Design who is leaving Chicago to teach in Canada.
It was similar to the first charette (We were again designing an object for the classroom, a desk). There are a […]
Dwayne Wade designed T-Mobile Sidekick
Originally uploaded by quami77.
Why on earth would I want a phone designed by Dwayne Wade??
Unless, of course, in his spare time outside of playing in the NBA, he is an interaction and usability expert.. and he graduated from the Institute of […]
scottberkun.com » #31 What they didn’t teach me (part 1)
(tags: design school UI HCI)
Lessons from Emerging-Market Leaders
(tags: emerging business BRIC India China Brazil Russia)
Naked Economics: Undressing the Dismal Science by Charles Wheelan
Stumbling on Happiness by Daniel Gilbert
Origin of Wealth: Evolution, Complexity, and the Radical Remaking of Economics by Eric D. Beinhocker
Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software by Steven Johnson
The Emerging Markets Century: How a New Breed of World-Class Companies Is Overtaking the World by Antoine van Agtmael
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