Design

Jorgen Vig Knudstorp on LEGO Group Innovation

Posted in Creativity, Creativity at Work Newsletter, Design, Innovation on Apr 21st, 2008

One of the highlights of the ACA Singapore 2008 conference, was the keynote delivered by Jorgen Vig Knudstorp, CEO / President of The LEGO Group.
He said the purpose of Lego is to help children become creative in an extremely logical fashion. Did you know all ten thousand pieces of Lego fit together and [...]

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Design Thinking

Posted in Design, Home, Innovation, Trends on Dec 22nd, 2007

Shilajeet (Banny) Banerjee, who runs the Joint Program in Design at Stanford, says complexity requires a new way of thinking and design thinking is the answer. This includes:
Collaborative Thinking
Process Mindedness
Holistic Multi-Disciplinary Approach
Human-centered
Tech/Business focus
Systems thinking
Synthesis
Rapid Concept Generation
Envisioning
Rapid Prototyping
Visualizing
Catalyzing decision-making
Storytelling
Realizing
Roadmapping
Managing transformation
Source: Nussbaum on Design
I would add empathy, aesthetics, creativity, and customer-focus to the list.
Stanford’s D school believes great [...]

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Create your own Gift Book

Posted in Design on Oct 31st, 2007

I recently discovered Blurb thanks to Kevin Kelly?s Cool Tools review and tried it out. Blurb is a self publishing tool ideal for artists and photographers who want to publish a book of their images. They give you a choice of professional layouts for images and text so you can easily create your own [...]

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Creativity at Work Newsletter, September 2007

Posted in Creativity, Creativity at Work Newsletter, Design, Innovation on Sep 30th, 2007

Today like every other day
we wake up empty and frightened.
Don’t open the door to the study
and begin reading. Take down
a musical instrument. Let the beauty you love
be what you do. There are a thousand ways
to kneel down and kiss the ground.
– Rumi
Pure Poetry
It’s a rainy Sunday afternoon in Vancouver and I am listening to [...]

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C-generation creativity

Posted in Design, Innovation, Trends on May 14th, 2007

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“Is Ugly the New Cool?”

Posted in Creativity, Design, arts-in-business on May 14th, 2007

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