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Aside from the many (sometimes older) projects, the website showing Philips’ design research projects also contains an interesting movie on foresight (Delphi movie). It seems that the most recent projects are under “Smart Connections”. |
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31 May 2005
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28 May 2005
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| NextBillion.net brings together the community of business leaders, social entrepreneurs, NGOs, policy makers, and academics who want to explore the connection between development and enterprise. Their goal is to identify and discuss sustainable business models that address the needs of the world’s poorest citizens. |
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28 May 2005
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Creative directors, market researchers, brand strategists and experience designers built the AIGA Center for Brand Experience in order to pool their knowledge and skills to educate the business and design communities about building successful and innovative brands. |
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28 May 2005
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An evolving glossary of experience design. |
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27 May 2005
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| To some, the notion of outsourcing work to India conjures up stories of American and European software programmers being reduced to stocking supermarket shelves to make a living. To others, it evokes legions of fresh-faced Indians willing to do intense, high-skill work for low pay. |
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26 May 2005
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By building social issues into strategy, big business can recast the debate about its role, argues Ian Davis of McKinsey. |
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25 May 2005
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The design industry is undergoing a radical transformation with the 21st Century becoming a “Conceptual Age”—a society of creators and empathisers, pattern recognisers and meaning makers, where companies must connect with their customers and offer products and services that resonate on an emotional level.
Niti Bhan ponders in a Core77 essay how exactly designers can evolve and retool your design business, and what designers are doing once they have redefined their role.
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24 May 2005
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‘Go out and play’ vs. ‘de-naturing of childhood’ |
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23 May 2005
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Anatole Gershman, global director of research at Accenture Technology Laboratories, interviewed about Accenture’s vision for the future of technology, which includes interactive grocery carts and the ability for your wardrobe to communicate with stores. |
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23 May 2005
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BBDO Worldwide in New York, General Electric’s longtime advertising agency, was not getting the message. The agency had been offering G.E. its panoply of traditional marketing ideas, leaning heavily on the standard 30-second television spot. But Judy Hu, general manager for global advertising and branding at G.E., demanded something daring. What she eventually got fit the bill: an online campaign with a virtual sprouting seed that computer users can tend and send to people they know by e-mail. |
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23 May 2005
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It’s a transformation as significant as when we went from black-and-white to color—and it’s already underway. The promise is that you’ll be able to watch anything you want, anywhere—on a huge high-def screen or on your phone. |
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23 May 2005
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Mobile TV has been talked about for ages, probably since the first mobile phone with a colour screen became available and certainly since the launch of 3G, the faster networks that allow video to be accessed at a reasonable speed. Now, Orange has announced a £10-a-month service offering nine channels to its 3G customers, while NTL Broadcast and 02 have announced the first batch of channels for a service to be trialled in Oxford later this year. |
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21 May 2005
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Vodafone is launching a back-to-basics mobile phone in response to customer demand for simplicity. |
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21 May 2005
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A technology conference takes cues from nature. |
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21 May 2005
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Working across borders, designers Reed Kram and Clemens Weisshaar create a new strain of furniture. |
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21 May 2005
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Stephen Bayley takes a pit stop in Turin, and finds the hometown of Fiat is fuelled by fast cars and fabulous food. |
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21 May 2005
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| “So how do you feel about e-mail?” asks Simon Roberts, a social anthropologist. “How has it changed your workload?”
This is not what social anthropologists are usually expected to ask: they observe courtship rituals, try to interpret ancient chants, analyse gift-giving or tribal cosmology. Simon Roberts, however, is searching for meanings in the daily life of Peter Quest, a senior auditor, who works for the global accountants PricewaterhouseCoopers, in a featureless tower block in central London. Quest, who has spent 32 years at the firm, manifests unease. “I call my e-mails the triffids,” he says, referring to the killer plants in John Wyndham’s 1950s novel. “You can spend all day killing them, then you turn your back for a second and those red things, those triffids, have taken over your screen again! It eats up your day. When I started my career we used to spend lots of time talking to clients and colleagues. Now it’s harder.” Roberts is patient. “But I have noticed that people here don’t seem to classify e-mail as ‘real’ work. They sit at their desk doing e- mails and then say, ‘Right, now let’s do some work’ – but e-mail is taking up work time. Perhaps that is the problem?” |
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20 May 2005
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Cell phones. Memory chips. Plasma TVs. How Samsung made Korea a consumer electronics superpower. |
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19 May 2005
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Between 15 and 20 years into the future, Korean people’s long-time wish of living longer and healthier lives will come true and Korea will enter an era of space travel by completing the development of manned spaceship.
Such predictions came from a study conducted by the National Science & Technology Council. The council announced a total of 761 technological tasks in eight areas, namely aerospace, materials and production, information and knowledge, food and biological resources, life and health, energy and environment, security, and territory management and social infrastructure. |
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18 May 2005
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Silvio Berlusconi’s unfulfilled promises may trouble Italians – but in Europe they add to the prime minister’s reputation as one of the most unloved continental leaders in recent memory. |