Infinite Innovation

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collaborativefund:

How Innovation Is More Poetry Than Science

Practical lessons from 35 years of writing poetry that can help individuals and teams deliver more innovative products, processes and services.

  1. Details matter
  2. Design is critical
  3. Understand the market
  4. Structure informs
  5. Cut ruthlessly
  6. Seek…

Is innovation an art or a science?

This isn’t your grandmother’s industrial design! Paola Antonelli, senior curator at The Museum of Modern Art, discusses design’s disruptive potential.

ideasthatcompel:

‘Medusa’ and other impossible buildings by Victor Enrich

Just a superb gallery to shake the imagination awake.

IKEA upstages Apple?

UPPLEVA — the new all-in-one mod furniture, smart TV, sound system, DVD and it also kneads-your-tired-legs device.  Or something.

Watch the UPPLEVA maiden on YouTube who’ll tell you all about it.

Oddly this was via Gavin Purcell — Let the parodies begin!

The best morphing hexapod robot video you’ll see today — guaranteed.

alexob:

Hop on, hop off! British design brings back much loved routemaster onto London streets. Thomas Heatherwick has redesigned the London iconic bus and seven of them have now hit the roads. They are simply awesome! The new version features not one but two staircases and three doors - enabling travellers to once again hop on and off whenever they want!

Apparently the new bus will also be fuel efficient, saving 15% more energy than the existing hybrid buses and 40% more than the conventional diesel versions. LOVE!

Beautiful.

“Did you design a brilliant, life-changing device? Did your firm create an inspiring tool for tomorrow? Enter our inaugural Innovation By Design Awards, honoring the year’s best designs. Finalists will be featured in Fast Company’s October 2012 issue.”

9 categories. 23 judges. Find out more and enter now.

Proof that innovation needn’t be high tech.  Subway map cuffs: $37 

via upcoming World Innovation Forum NYC speaker Guy Kawasaki

fastcompany:

Facebook’s design staff has gone from 20 to 90 people in the past year. We talked with its brightest stars about the sea change that this represents for Silicon Valley.

Facebook Agrees: The Key To Its Future Success Is Design

Who doesn’t want to peek behind the Facebook curtain?