Redesigning American Business: "Schools such as the Illinois Institute of Design, Carnegie Mellon, the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, Calif., and the Design Research Institute at the University of Cincinnati are focusing on teaching innovation strategies, service innovation, consumer experiences, and the like. Stanford is even building a new design school that brings together business, engineering, and design to embody the field's new focus.
Bottom line: China scared the design industry, but the profession found higher-valued services to sell and is now more important than ever to Corporate America. Many small design concerns have gone under in the past four years, but others have evolved and grown even stronger."
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K8 industridesign as 47 22 11 40 56 nice industrial design work
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Playing With Time nice time lapse videos.
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Welcome to
Grand Illusions, the site for the enquiring mind.
With optical illusions, scientific toys, visual effects, and even a little magic.
An interview with
Lindon Leader , the creator of the femaous Fedex logo.
"...If you put a lower-case “x” to the right of a capital “E” (Ex) you can begin to see a hint of an arrow, though it is clumsy and extremely abstract. I thought that, if I could develop this concept of an “arrow” it could be promoted as a symbol for speed and precision, both FedEx communicative attributes. And, by the way, different kinds of arrows were utilized with some of the other semi-final candidates, though none of those were “hidden.”...."
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"ClearviewHwy was developed in a research program to increase the legibility and improve ease of recognition of road sign legends while reducing the effects of halation (or overglow) for older drivers and drivers with reduced contrast sensitivity when letters are displayed on high brightness retroreflective materials." read more about the
reserch and design process
IP2Location™ has developed an award-winning solution to help you to identify visitor's geographical location ie. country, region, city and ISP, using a proprietary ip address lookup database and technology without intruding your visitor's privacy.
This's quiet cool site. You can locate the people who have emailed you -geographically by placing the IP address (u can easily find it in the email-show full header menu)in the sites 'look up' window.Physical dimension to the amorphous world wide web...i love it !
Cloak Room is supposed to be India's First SMS novel being published in pieces everyday by 3825 media according to Rohit Gupta, Mid day, columnist and worldchanging team member from Mumbai.
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Good news for all
NIDans!! Ranjan has launched his homepage. at the moment it contains his articles on design related issues. unfortunately there are no pictures as any of you might expect. Hope he post his image library soon.
some exerpts from one article "...Design offers industry and government a means to explore and assess a range of options through the creative reinterpretation of problems and opportunities in the light of systematically examined alternate scenarios that is based on focused design research and concrete design visualisations....".
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Mooch: "
The internet is a goldmine of information. But few deal with it effectively. Mooch aims to bring clarity and ease of use.
At a glance, for the day to day essentials, Mooch Choice, a discriminating directory of the best sites in each sector,
and Mooch Live, a dynamic magazine dealing with the ever changing flow of topical lifestyle and creative content flowing through"
their news and link selection is good. navigation is easy.
enjoy
Clientcopia : Coping with stupid clients
this one's quiet cool ppl. Dont miss this.
"....After having published a demo site for a client: Them: "Can you print out a copy of every page in the site and post it to us?" Us: "Why??" Them: "We need to fax a copy to our US office so they can have a look at it..."
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Hough waves
nice graphics
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