The T-Shirt Crisis
In the past decade, the clothing industry has been booming based on faster and cheaper fashion. Cotton was at the center of this fashion boom because... Read more →
Innovation Performance in Europe 2010
The European Union released the Innovation Union Scoreboard 2010, which is an assessment of innovation performance in EU member states in the last... Read more →
“American Idol” for Inventors
Have a brilliant new product idea in mind? Has it been in your head for several months, maybe years? You would love to see this product developed... Read more →
Groupon , the new consumption trend?
Is Groupon creating a new trend or are they simply using new technology to capitalize on a human behavior that has been around for decades? It seems... Read more →
International Exhibition of “Designers United for Japan”
An 8.9 massive magnitude earthquake hit Japan north of Tokyo on March 11th, 2011 causing havoc with tsunami, blackouts, fire, and nuclear meltdown.... Read more →
New Work Day
As unemployment rates continue to rise, it has become taboo for the employed to complain about work woes. Though they bear a lesser strain than the... Read more →
The Art of Triple Bottom Line
Studio Xaquixe, interpreted from the Zapotec language to mean “at the base of the mountain,” is a glass blowing studio located in Oaxaca, one of... Read more →
Staying Creative
Lately I’ve had the impression that I was both smarter and more productive when I was a teenager. I went to an all-girls high school where we wore... Read more →
Mass Customization
By Willem Van Lancker, UX Designer, Google For most of the twentieth century, manufacturers dictated how the average American consumer lived. The... Read more →
Catalyst at SXSW
MagCloud,HP’s revolutionary print-on-demand magazine, featured Catalyst at SXSW in its booth this past week. “Every March, the most inspiring... Read more →
Man vs. Machine
Last month, IBM and Jeopardy partnered together for a historical television game show event. Jeopardy invited 2 former champions, Ken Jennings and... Read more →
Khan Academy: Education Pioneer
Redesigning education is on minds of most strategic designers today. How do we use modern tools today to raise a better generation for tomorrow? Khan... Read more →
