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Brand New IDEO: Mumbai's Minimum Viable Logo, Windows on the World
On Monday, IDEO Mumbai started the day with a video Global Make-a-Thon baton handoff from Singapore (pictured above), in which the latter team shared the work that happened in both the Singapore and...
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Brand New IDEO: Morning Exercise, Jump Rope and Calligraphy in Shanghai
And... boom. From Mumbai, we virtually transport to IDEO Shanghai where the Global Make-A-Thon experience is best documented visually below.The result is a beautiful three dimensional sculptural...
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Core77 Design Awards: FINAL COUNTDOWN
Ladies and gentlemen, the time has come! Tomorrow, at 8PM Eastern Time, your window to enter the 2013 Core77 Design Awards will officially close. If you want to participate, and haven't entered yet,...
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Brand New IDEO: Munich Personalizes, Simplifies and Moves
On Monday, IDEO Munich took the Global Make-a-Thon baton and made a video to convey several early concepts.Three early concept themes in Munich:1.) Simplification: How might we reduce the IDEO brand to...
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Brand New IDEO: London's Grid Grows
On Monday, IDEO London picked up the Global Make-a-Thon baton at about 10:20am after our MMM (Monday-morning-meeting). About 15 people gathered around the kitchen table and then split into 4 smaller...
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Brand New IDEO: Boston Crafts and Prototypes with Wood, Dye and Cornstarch
On Monday at 7 a.m., the Global Make-a-Thon baton passed to IDEO Boston. The making commenced with materials ranging from sharpies to cornstarch, dye to wood, and pencils to laptops.Using only natural...
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The Vamp: A Bluetooth Audio Device That Actually Does Something (Besides...
Photos by Mark CocksedgeI won't pretend to be an expert in the ever-expanding category of bluetooth audio, but I understand the appeal: After decades of being tethered to all variety of boxy, clunky or...
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Brand New IDEO: New York Explores Music, Verbs and Cubes
On Monday, the Global Make-a-Thon baton passed to IDEO New York. We explored our identity in three ways: as a language, as handwritten and as 'four things.'Working in generative teams we ideated around...
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Design Luxury in the Digital Age at Coach
wants a Digital Associate Art Directorin New York, New YorkDo you want to work for America's premier accessible luxury accessories brand? Coach is seeking a Digital Associate Art Director to ideate,...
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'Check Out This CNC Machine. His Name is Yoshi'
Up above is The Art of Japanese Joinery, a book I jealously guarded for years because it could only be found at Kinokuniya; nowadays you can get it on Amazon. Inside are photos of the fiendishly...
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Brand New IDEO: Chicago Sketches Sine Waves to R&B
On Monday, IDEO Chicago's team filled the room with goodness. We kicked off the Make-a-Thon exercise by posting inspiration from the Six Themes Tumblr site and discussing some of the most prominent...
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Apple Hits 100% Renewable Energy at All Data Centers, Aims for Companywide...
Of all the things other companies might copy from Apple, we wish it would be this: Apple has announced that they've achieved their 100% renewable energy target for all of their data centers, as well as...
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Brand New IDEO: San Francisco Bay Build to Think, Dive Into Abstraction, and...
On Monday, IDEO Bay storytellers (San Francisco and Palo Alto) gathered in the San Francisco studio, bracketed by palm trees and sunshine. We began by exploring the Global Make-a-Thon inspiration from...
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Ubi de Feo Figures Out How to Teach Coding to Code-Challenged Designers
"Creative technologist" Ubi de Feo is part of Hello Savants!, an Amsterdam-based creative collective. In recent years he's been teachingāor trying to teachāArduino coding to creatives, but ran into the...
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Someone Reading This Will Likely Win This Design Award, Will It Be You?
You owe it to your colleagues, your clients and yourself to garner accolades and attention for your past year's work. Take half an hour right now and enter your best project into the Core77 Design...
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Production Methods: Electrical Discharge Machining
Electrical discharge machining, or EDM, is a wicked (and expensive) way of cutting metal to extremely fine tolerances. It's a CNC process whereby two electrodes are precisely placed at opposite ends of...
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A Nice Use of Electrical Discharge Machining: Mas Design's Suh-weet Bauhaus...
Mas Design's simple, elegantly-designed Bauhaus Series of carabiner keychains, all created from a single piece of titanium, are pretty darned sweet. They're also a Kickstarter hit: With over a month...
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If Champagne Grew On Trees: 'The Enchanting Tree' by Tord Boontje for...
Photo by Michaƫl / MKB AgencyReporting by Eliza Axelson-ChidseyThe dark, fantastical room inside the Saatchi Gallery was a far cry from the cold, wet streets of London. A large golden tree held flutes...
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Here's That Internship You've Been Looking for: Join HP's Design Team in...
wants a Industrial Design Internin HoustonIt's getting to be that time of year: if you're a design student who is looking to get your foot in the door in the Lone Star State, look no further:...
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Brand New IDEO: What We Learned and What's Next
IDEO just completed 24 hours of prototyping in public from Tokyo to San Francisco. We've effectively pulled a global all-nighter. It's left me with the hollow feeling one has after last call, followed...
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