via Ace Jet 170: Uncommon Knowledge in reference to James Webb-Young’s great book, A Technique for Producing Ideas
There was a bit of a buzz earlier this year on crowdsourcing and its power within innovation, business and design. Garrick Schmitt over at Razorfish asks us if Creativity Can Be Outsourced. Can it? No, it can’t. The reason design, creativity and innovation cannot be outsourced comes down to one thing – leadership. Without strong...
Currency is important. At it’s best, a bank note distills it’s countries vision, values and aspects that make it unique from other countries. At it’s worst, a bank note represents a bygone era and a bygone belief system and a bygone aesthetic. In many cases, currency is the first impression people will make of your...
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Malcolm Gladwell has written a great article for the New Yorker titled, How David Beats Goliath: When underdogs break the rules. The premise of the article is that by their very nature the David’s of the world have to play by their own rules in order to succeed. Gladwell admits that this rule-changing mentality isn’t...
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A quote from the April 2009 issue of Rutberg & Co.’s Wireless Industry Newsletter (via GigaOm): An under-discussed dynamic with the iPhone has been the impact to carrier subsidy budgets for non-iPhone handsets. In our conversations with handset OEM and carrier executives, we hear that subsidy budgets for those carriers carrying the iPhone are now...
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Apr 16, 2009 • “Luck has so much to do with success and failure.” —Leonard Cohen
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Apr 10, 2009 • The posting of specific product launches or reviews of these products is not something that deserves a spot on this site—we’ll leave that to the engagets of the world. So it is with some apprehension that I make a post specifically focusing on the new iPod Shuffle and what it represents not only to Apple,...
