Bruce Nussbaum, assistant managing editor at BusinessWeek, gave a speech on innovation and design at Royal College of Art in London recently. Here's one of the ideas he offered: Design is so popular today mostly because business sees design as connecting it to the consumer populace in a deep, fundamental and honest way. An honest way. If you are in the myth-making business, you don’t need design. You need a great ad …
Big Media Wants One Of Those You Tube Things
Wall Street Journal is reporting that four major media companies--News Corp.'s Fox, Viacom Inc., CBS Corp. and General Electric Co.'s NBC Universal--might join to create a video web site able to compete with Google Inc.'s YouTube. Nate Anderson wonders if the Big Guys can properly design such a site. In their own attempts at creating Internet delivery services for their TV shows, the networks have often done a nice …
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Learning As They Go
Carson Sloan and Luke Watkins, two graphic design graduates from the University of Delaware, are on a mission. They are also on a road trip. Before we take that leap, before we accept that first job, and before we dive into the competitive world of design, we have one last class to take… call it an independent study. The classroom is three thousand miles of open road and the professor is anyone with an open door …
Lofty Ideas Bandied About
What role can creativity play in shaping our world? Can creatives become instruments for social and political change? That’s the subject of the evening of September 21, 2006 at the Art Directors Club ADC Gallery panel discussion called “Designism.” "Designism will address the question of how you use your career to make the world a better place. By giving this movement a name, we hope to provide young designers and …
Technorati’s Tweaked Identity Tweaks Noses
Greg Storey of Airbag Industries is less than impressed with the new Technorati website redesign. It's my understanding that drug users sometimes have flashbacks that cause them to hallucinate and do unexplainable, unimaginable things. So when a friend told me to go see the new Technorati website and it finished loading, the first thing that came to mind was that drug users with a Jolly Rancher fetish are now in …
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