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Archive for September, 2009

2009-09-29 11:04:11

I’m really happy to be able to point you to Liv­ing Cli­mate Change , a con­ver­sa­tion that we’re host­ing at IDEO.? Our goal with this new site is to expand and enhance the debate about cli­mate change, and also to show what might be done about it using design think­ing.? While I didn’t have a direct role in pro­duc­ing any of the video sce­nar­ios on the site, I did a mod­icum of work to sup­port them com­ing to fruition ( Prin­ci­ple 12 ), and I’m really happy with where we are with this roll­out. There’s a lot more to come.? Believe me, there’s a lot of inter­est­ing sto­ries and visions com­ing to the sight over the next few months!? Most impor­tant, though, will be your con­tri­bu­tions.? If you’re inter­ested, please take a minute to sub­scribe to updates from the site, and con­tribute your thoughts and feel­ings here .

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2009-09-28 19:28:08

Over the week­end I spent some time fool­ing around with an iPhone app called Col­or­Cap­ture Ben .? The way it works is you take a photo of a color you like using your iPhone, and then this app from Ben­jamin Moore shows you the clos­est match­ing color chip from their col­lec­tion, and then serves up a list­ing of com­pli­men­tary col­ors and so forth.? I found that it works equally well sam­pling a Barnett-Newman style solid color field as it does mix­ing across the var­i­ous col­ors found in a Seurat-like shot of a lawn.? Even if you’re not in the mar­ket for some new paint, it’s a won­der­ful source of quiet, adult enter­tain­ment if you ever find your­self, say, attend­ing a live per­for­mance of music designed for the toddler-preschooler demo­graphic.? As I fre­quently am.

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Prin­ci­ple 3 in action: Col­or­Cap­ture Ben

2009-09-24 14:50:59

Ear­lier this year I wrote up a pre­lim­i­nary ver­sion of the six­teenth prin­ci­ple of inno­va­tion, Grok the gestalt of teams .? In the spirit of Prin­ci­ple 16, my col­league John Fos­ter just posted a great blog post about teams, called Another kind of team .? Do give it a read.

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More on Prin­ci­ple 16

2009-09-19 20:43:17

I really enjoyed lis­ten­ing to this inter­view of Adrian van Hooy­donk by Tyler Brule of Mon­o­cle.? It’s a won­der­ful Director’s Com­men­tary , because in it van Hooy­donk explores many themes that are rel­e­vant far beyond the world of BMW.? Any­one engaged in the art and sci­ence of bring­ing cool stuff to life will get a lot out of this video. Some of the high points for me were: his thought­ful explo­ration of how the 2009 finan­cial cri­sis will shape user behav­iors in the future his think­ing on what it takes to design remark­able expe­ri­ences, and his empha­sis on the impor­tance of hav­ing a strong point of view.? When he says that the BMW Gran Tur­ismo is about “trav­el­ing in style”, I really get what the car is all about.? By the way, the Gran Tur­ismo has offi­cially replaced the Honda Ridge­line as the focus of all my auto­mo­tive fetishis­tic energy (but Honda, if you’re lis­ten­ing, I’d still be very happy if you deliv­ered a Ridge­line to my house one Sat­ur­day morn­ing.? With a bow on top)

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Director’s Com­men­tary: Adrian van Hooydonk

2009-09-16 17:18:00

Seth Godin has writ­ten a really impor­tant post:? The hier­ar­chy of suc­cess When it comes to the art and sci­ence of bring­ing cool stuff to life, this point is espe­cially impor­tant: As far as I’m con­cerned, the most impor­tant of all, the top of the hier­ar­chy is attitude.

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The hier­ar­chy of success

2009-09-07 22:58:36

If things have seemed quiet around meta­cool , that’s because they have been quiet around meta­cool . I was out on a vaca­tion for the past cou­ple of weeks, and took a fast from every­thing web-related (except for Twit­ter, which doesn’t feel the same to me), includ­ing email and blog­ging and every­thing else I do via Fire­fox.? I highly rec­om­mend it.? I should have plenty of stuff com­ing out over the next few weeks. Any­how, the fast is now bro­ken.? The photo above was taken at Dirty Al’s , home of some of the best fried shrimp I’ve ever had in my life.? I highly rec­om­mend those, too

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