A lot of buzz about the Joby and Peter Stathis collaboration.
It’s a strategic move for Joby to apply their technology, team and knowledge to a different type of product and target market.
They have received good reception online at blogs like Co.Design and there was a good reception at CITE showroom in SoHo.
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At ICFF even though there was carbon fiber and metals of different alloys, the two most impressive materials were the use of tin and the use of clay.
One Japanese company Koyo Ibushi uses clay that can be used for tiles, counter tops, pottery, or created into sculpture.
It’s a chic and dark aesthetic, like [...]
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Why did Jason Wing go back to China?
Well Xu Bing finds it to be a massive laboratory for testing.
http://video.ft.com/v/942909968001/Xu-Bing-at-the-British-Museum
A/P/A Institute at NYU
Keynote: “Between the Diasporic and the Transnational” Dean Chan — Edith Cowan University, Perth, Australia This symposium investigates the increasingly transnational nature of [...]
At Parsons the New School for Design, the Assistant Professor and co-director of the DREAM:IN Project Carlos Teixeira and its collaborators shared the latest development on the project, as well as invited participants to engage the movement of transforming DREAMS into tangible realities in India.
The Opportunity: designing for billions/Bruce Nussbaum
a model for [...]
Learning By Doing – Tucker Viemeister, FIDSA, Lab Chief, Rockwell Group
Recap
A good presentation on an industrial’s stating his work history and view of environment design and interaction design and where design may be headed. He relates play to learning and design.
Opinion & Questions: Design should be validated via feedback [...]
Moral Leadership for a more Inclusive Future
Jacqueline Novogratz, CEO, Acumen Fund
Opening Points
I. Dignity is more important to the human spirit than wealth.
Think more broadly about what poverty means.
II. Charity and aid alone will not solve the problem of poverty.
Charities “create dependency rather than dignity.”
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Presentation:
Q&A:
This lecture is part of Bruce Nussbaum’s Design At The Edge lecture series.
Bruce Nussbaum’s lecture on Design at The Edge is one of my favorite.
I’m not enrolled in it, but still feel obligated to sit in every Monday. Last week, Bruce mentioned to me that he is writing a book on what he calls CQ, or Creative Intelligence.
At Columbia Business School’s China Business Conference, [...]
As VC is stressed in the recession and struggling as a model in the United States we’re seeing new players move into that arena.
Since large ad agencies owned by holding groups also have to adjust their model, some of them are developing VC capability. (These are the firms that were not the pioneers [...]
