1 of Six Tips For Designing a Memorable Brand
Fast COmpany have created an article highting 6 really cool tips for creating an engaging brand. “You never see a logo by itself,” says Yang Kim. Instead, it’s usually part of an overall brand that when well-executed takes into account everything from self- and outward perception to media landscape. For their new book, Kim and [...]
The State of Online Video in 2010
Tammy Camp has produced a detailed look at the State of Online. A few pop up such as Myspace and Facebook being a more powerful or chosen platform for uploading video content. Only 7% of users pay for online content and the major demographic sits between 14 and 29. What are your thoughts? Source | Tammy Camp
The Honest Tea Campaign Tests Boston.
OK, ignoring the painful soundtrack for a brief moment, The Honest Tea campaign is a good idea and a lot of fun. The company makes the claim social responsibility is central to Honest Tea’s identity and purpose. Nice to see 96% of Boston locals are supportive of the honest approach. Lets hope the cool kids [...]
Infograph | An Interesting Look at Price Drops Since 2000
This is a great infographic that looks closely at the changes in prices heading south since 2000. Sourced via Mint, the graph indicates what lies behind many of the prices are business strategies: Starbucks, for example, has made it’s basic coffee cheaper on the theory that it’s better to bring more people through the doors, [...]
Want to be in the top 1000 sites ranked by Google?
Everyone knows that the really big and popular websites have an insane number of visitors and we are familiar with the out of control numbers involved with Facebook. So Pingdom set out to find out more about website number 50, or 100, or 500? What does it take for a website, in terms of visitors, to [...]
Bec-a-licious | Entrepreneurial mum creating amazing cakes
Have you heard of Bec-a-Licious cakes? Never? We find that hard to believe however we are quite proud that we have now addressed that problem for you. We stumbled across the Bec-a-licious facebook fan page looking for a cake for a friends party. Whilst the site doesn’t give much away, it does however share some [...]
Our Wildest Ideas Untamed are a Powerful Asset
Yesterday I had a great conversation with a good friend from a business based in Sydney. We moved onto the discussion around the creation and the redundancy of ideas in her company which seems a common discussion point of late. I spent a lot of time working for a global organisation where great ideas were [...]
The Investling Theory Of Everything
We learn a lot in our lives. Unfortunately, we tend to forget a lot as well. Apparently I’m an engineer. But if you ask me to derive a formula for pultrusion from first principles, you might be disappointed. In fact, I’ve forgotten most of my university degree, and that was only 10 years ago. So how [...]
Louis Gray Selects 50 Startups Worth Watching
Louis Gray has prepared a list of 50 top startups that he is watching. Serving up the list in his ranking order from one to fifty in terms of both interest and viability. I am sure that if I ran this exercise 10 times, I would get a different list 10 times. Louis explains: I [...]
Win a Website Worth $7500 from uncluttered white spaces and 6.2 Digital
uncluttered white spaces and 6.2 Digital is giving you a chance to win a website to the value of $7500. The website will be a wordpress based blog or website created by 6.2 and will include all content pages, seo, newsletter feature and social networking capabilities. To win, simple tweet this hash tag #freewebsite and [...]
New Business Ideas for Just About Everyone
With an audience that extends to just about everyone, the music business can be a great source for new business ideas. Here are five Springwise spotted recently: 1. MOOD TRAXXER — Traxx.fm’s Mood Traxxer aims help users find music to match their mood by getting them to describe their current state of mind, activity, needs [...]
Infograph | Country to Country Entrepreneurship
According to the data, the U.S. is far ahead of any other country in the portion of our GDP that comes from entrepreneurship–11.3%, compared to our next closest competitor, the U.K., which clocks in at 6.3%. This can be interpreted two ways: Either we’ve had a longer history of entrepreneurship–and other countries are perhaps catching [...]
PSFK Presents the Future of Retail Report
PSFK presents Future of Retail report View more presentations from PSFK. Traditional physical retail remains as important as ever. So does providing the environment in which a retailer can provide an unparalleled experience. Through the dynamic use of space, the most successful store owners are pushing the boundaries of storytelling, product testing and education – [...]
Greenpeace Release the Guide to Greener Electronics
Greenpeace has just released its latest quarterly “Guide to Greener Electronics. The guide ranks the 18 top manufacturers of personal computers, mobile phones, TVs and games consoles according to their policies on toxic chemicals, recycling and climate change. Last updated: May 2010. The three goals for this guide are to get companies to: Clean up [...]
Ando | Something Foolish, Something Creative and Something Generous
Benjamin Graham* hoped every day to do “something foolish, something creative, and something generous.” At first I was just impressed by how rounded those goals are. But then I started thinking about his framing; his goals were based on a day’s activities. Not a week or a year, but a day. While we will always [...]
We think you should visit | Collaborative Consumption
Collaborative Consumption Groundswell Video from rachel botsman on Vimeo. Rachel Botsman and Roo Rogers created the Collaborative Consumption site to help you contribute to and evolve the ideas in the upcoming book What’s Mine Is Yours: The Rise of Collaborative Consumption, (Harper Business, September 28, 2010). Collaborative Consumption describes the rapid explosion in traditional sharing, [...]
IF | The Future of Media | “The Curse of the Expert”
uncluttered white spaces recently hosted IF | The future of media at Sydney’s the White Horse. The event was the third in a string of recent forums by uncluttered white spaces covering innovation and now, specific topics and in this case, the future of media. white spaces curated a team of Australia’s captains of industry [...]
Pepsi V Coke in the Sustainability Battle
I can not think of time when the Pepsi v Coke wars were not a topic of school yard, locker room or sunday drive banter. We all have an opinion in the Coke versus Pepsi taste wars, but things get a little murky when corporate sustainability is taken into account. Fast Company have released an [...]
Top 10 Reasons To Shop Local First
Significantly more money re-circulates in greater grand rapids when purchases are made at locally, owned, rather than nationally owned, businesses. Money Is kept in the community because locally-owned businesses often purchase from other local businesses, service providers and farms. Purchasing local helps grow other businesses as well as the greater grand rapids tax base. [Click [...]
Luxury 2010 | post-recession codes emerge
Luxury 2010 | post-recession codes emerge View more presentations from Tim Stock. Tim Stock and the cool kids are scenarioDNA have created a presentation entitled Luxury | post-recession codes emerge. The presentation asks the question, “take away the logo, the licensing and the hibris, do you still have a compelling luxuy product that will stand [...]
Growing Up Digital | Don Tapscott
GROWING UP DIGITAL: The Rise of the Net Generation by Don Tapscott is an examination of the first generation to be bathed in bits since birth. These 3 billion children of the baby boomers are combining demographic muscle and digital mastery to become a force for social transformation. In a nutshell, because of their access [...]
Infograph | The Worlds Leading Companies
This elegant chart, created by Tiffany Farrant for GDS Digital (the second from her today, we know; we can’t help it), started as merely a visualization of the Forbes 2,000, which lists the 2,000 largest companies in the world. And it does it’s job with tremendous efficiency–it’s pretty interesting to see, roughly, how big chemicals companies and media [...]
Investing More in “We” Spaces Than in “I” Spaces
The Stanford d.school, which opens officially on May 7, is a space whose design has been refined over the course of six years to maximize the innovation process. Every wall, everynook, every connecting gizmo, every table, every storage cabinet, has been created with a grand, collaborative vision in mind. George Kembel, the executive director of the school [...]
Lessons on Creating a Social Impact
Designers tend to fall prey to ideas that are too attractive and don’t generally have the patience for the lengthy process to see initiatives through to the point of meaningful results. Robert Fabricant recently gave a talk in NYC discussing some of the challenges designers face, he highlighted eight lessons learned from his experience on Project Masiluleke and other [...]
