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Can Design Thinking Solve Your Problems and Make You Happier?

Imagine for a moment that a business needs a radically innovative approach to a vexing problem. Designers and managers start with an intense focus on the human aspect--the real problems their customers face in daily life. Somebody gives the obligatory ...

From MICHAEL CANNELL, Fast Company,  18 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Bruce Mau,  Dean Kamen

The Post-Big Era: Will Small-Scale Ingenuity Replace Large-Scale Architecture?

The extra-large architectural complex—art museums, libraries, office complexes—built so prolifically over the past decade are commonly described as expressions of civic pride. They might just as easily be called grandiose expressions of runaway ...

From MICHAEL CANNELL, Fast Company,  10 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Blu Dot Drops 25 Chairs on New York Sidewalks and Tracks Their Movements: Cool Idea but Is It Marketing?

At 9:40 a.m. on Thursday, a  white van pulled over near the corner of 68th Street and Central Park West in Manhattan. A cameraman armed with a telephoto lens watched from the corner. A video crew snooped from a rooftop. Half a dozen operatives on the ...

From MICHAEL CANNELL, Fast Company,  6 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Motorola, Inc.,  Apollo Theater,  Metropolitan Museum of Art,  Joost

Curbside Marketing: Blu Dot to Drop Free Chairs on Sidewalk and Track the Takers

Here's one for the annals of experimental marketing: On Wednesday and Thursday a white van carrying a stack of powder-coated Real Good chairs by Blu Dot, a Minneapolis design firm started by three college friends, will patrol Manhattan neighborhoods ...

From MICHAEL CANNELL, Fast Company,  29 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Chris Anderson

From Overwrought to Overly Simple: Is Green Design Anti-Style?

Like everyone else, the design field braced for the fallout from the financial meltdown. At the time, some of us argued that good things could come from a period of constraint and reexamination. The consumer culture of design had become overwrought, ...

From MICHAEL CANNELL, Fast Company,  28 Oct 2009

Related Topics: California Academy of Sciences,  Renzo Piano,  New York Times Company,  Chevrolet,  Krispy Kreme

Return of La Buena Vida: Conran Poised for Cuban Invasion

Sir Terence Conran, the designer and founder of the Conran Shop, has made preparations to design a dozen hotels and resorts in Cuba. Sir Terence, who revolutionized the sale and marketing of home furnishings in the sixties and seventies, has applied ...

From MICHAEL CANNELL, Fast Company,  28 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Terence Conran

5 Ways Design Thinking Can Raise the Collective IQ of Your Business

Business executives love stability and the cold imperatives of logic. Ambiguity gives them fits. Designers, by contrast, can't abide the status quo. "That tension never goes away between inventing the new and preserving the old," Sam Lucente, vice ...

From MICHAEL CANNELL, Fast Company,  22 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Hewlett-Packard,  Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum,  University of Virginia

Does Architecture Have a Foot Fetish?

You don't have to try very hard to spot the architecture students on a college campus. They're the ones with the carefully considered shoes (and artful eyewear). It's easy to see why architects are so selective about their footwear: What are shoes, ...

From MICHAEL CANNELL, Fast Company,  21 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Frank Gehry,  Keith Richards,  Zaha Hadid,  Lacoste (designer),  Crocs, Inc.

Can Designers Stamp Out Rural Poverty?

Plans for a national design center to help alleviate rural poverty will be solidified when 60 designers, corporate leaders, foundation heads, and journalists meet next month for the 2009 Aspen Design Summit. The event, sponsored by the AIGA and ...

From MICHAEL CANNELL, Fast Company,  14 Oct 2009

Related Topics: AIGA,  Rockefeller Foundation,  UNICEF

Design Challenge of the Day: What Should Quarantine Look Like?

Four years ago Paola Antonelli curated a collection of emergency shelters, gas masks, and security bollards for a MoMA exhibition called "Safe: Design Takes On Risk." The show demonstrated how thoroughly 9/11 had galvanized the design field. Since then, ...

From MICHAEL CANNELL, Fast Company,  8 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Paola Antonelli,  Osama bin Laden,  NASA,  Neil Armstrong,  Michael Collins (politician)

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