Sony Music deliver a blow to CDs
Sony Music delivered a knockout blow to CDs, announcing recently that on May 1, it will cease sending promo CDs to critics and journalists, and instead only provide them with digital previews. Sony is the second-largest music company in the world, and the first major label to do digital-only promotions–hopefully it’s not the last.
This is [...]
FROM THE BULL:: Innovate or Perish
Recently I had the great pleasure of participating in an Innovation Forum (IF) in Melbourne hosted by the charming and charismatic Ben Rennie of Uncluttered White Spaces. It was a brilliant evening with a great panel, an engaged audience and some lively discussions.
Innovation is a curious term that means different things to different people. My [...]
A pop up bar made from 420 IKEA boxes
Reverting back to the word of innovation. The Bull often refers to innovation as a new way of viewing something that either exists or does not. Surely this errs-towards an innovative way to use Ikea tubs. Instead of dumping old storage boxes, why not give them a second life as alcohol-slinging pop-up shops? Designers Diogo [...]
IF Melbourne in review:: “Nostalgia, denial & arrogance” – Ben Crowe @ IF 2010
uncluttered white spaces hosted our second Innovation forum (IF Melbourne) on Tuesday night at Denmark House Melbourne.
The night turned out one of the most influential panels and guests list I have been involved in with some amazing contributions across the floor. IF exisits to bring together like minded innovators and thought leaders to share ideas [...]
Adidas + Augmented Reality & a few Stormtroopers.
Taking on the now industry standard concept in the games field of augmented reality, adidas has created a virtual 3-D world that can be accessed using a future line of five men’s sneakers. Users need to visit the adidas site and hold up their sneaker to their webcam; the show will feature a code implanted [...]
Jamie Oliver’s TED Prize wish:: Teach every child about food
Have you ever been so moved by a speech that it change the very foundations of your life? I have. The majority of the speeches that moved me to create changes in my life were delivered by TED.
Last week, they did it again. After awarding Jamie Oliver with the TED Prize for 2009, in his [...]
Google launches Buzz: Real time feeds for Gmail.
Google, like someone arriving late to a party already drunk and boisterous but with a lot of party favors, is trying to grab some of that Web2.0 social glimmer by polishing up Gmail with Google Buzz. The app, which is integrated into Gmail, includes the best features of Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare and other well-known social [...]
A Letter for One with Meaning for All
This Valentine’s Day, celebrate love in all forms with Steve Powers’ latest book “A Love Letter for You”. The book explores Powers’ fascination with using graffiti to tell a story.
A team of 40 painter collaborated to create Love Letter, a series of more than 50 huge, text-based rooftop murals.
Love Letter is a public art project [...]
Announcing: Sahil Merchant joins IF Melbourne’s panel of experts.
IF Melbourne has recieved confirmation that Sahil Merchant will be joining the panel of experts.
Sahil is the co-founder and Chief Magazineologist of Mag Nation, a chain of retail stores specialising in mainstream and niche magazines, stationery, design books and t-shirts. Mag Nation has built a cult following amongst the creative and urban savvy communities [...]
What are the most important risks for 2010?
The World Economic Forum held its annual meeting at Davos, and the theme this time was “Improve the State of the World.” Which naturally meant coming to terms with the risks out there. Their economists came up with a comprehensive list and assigned probabilities to each–and also mapped the linkages between each one. Then they summarized [...]
What if the easel held the pen, and you held the paper?
Line Navigation Time Trial Challenge
Daniel Eatock points us to some amazing places and in this instance, he creates an interesting experiment with the Line Navigation and Time Trial Challenge. Whilst the web site is in a dire need of an upgrade, the content is none the less inspiring, insightful and relevant.
Usually, the easel holds the [...]
Fashion that touches the World
Holstee is an Eco-friendly clothing company. Their style is simple, functional, unique and made out of 100% recycled material.
Although there are quite a few Eco-friendly fashions on the market, Holstee captivates through its inimitable concept. The brand founded by brothers Dave and Mike Radparvar was not only created to be fashionable and functional but also [...]
The Kindle. The iPad. Enter Google’s Chrome OS tablet
Google Chromium has released visual explorations of how a Chrome OS tablet UI might look in hardware. Some possibilites they explore include:
Keyboard interaction with the screen: anchored, split, attached to focus.
Launchers as an overlay, providing touch or search as means to access web sites.
Contextual actions triggered via dwell.
Zooming UI for multiple tabs
Tabs presented along the [...]
IF Melbourne’s Panel of Experts
IF Melbourne has brought together an amazing panel of experts and thought leaders to discuss innovation in business, strategy, marketing, brand and emerging trends in 2010. Following on from the success of IF Sydney in November, here is a quick profile on the panel of speakers.
To learn more or book tickets, visit EVENTBRITE HERE.
THE [...]
Is this innovation? The PEUGEOT B1K CONCEPT BIKE
Peugeot’s new design team just released these images of a concept bicycle dubbed the B1K. Sculpted as a race bike, it features a chainless drivetrain, carbon fiber construction and scant few details on the rest of the design.
Click to enlarge the images…looks like we’ll have to come up with a new term for tires. Tubulars [...]
The iPad converting Libraries.
The biggest buzz surrounding the iPad might be its applications and features, but there are more uses for this product. The iPad has paved the way for affordable multi-touch screen-walls for building interiors. CHC has designed a library feature wall which utilises the iPad as tiles. The size of the iPad (242.8mm x 189.7mm x [...]
COOL LIST 9 :: Ponoko. The worlds first online marketplace for making things.
Ponoko is an online marketplace for everyone to click to make real things.
It’s where creators, digital fabricators, materials suppliers and buyers meet to make (almost) anything.
Ponoko kicked off at TechCrunch40 at the end of 2007 with a vision to reinvent how goods are designed, made and distributed worldwide. The core of this vision is the trade [...]
white spaces TV :: Discusses Digital Strangelove with David Gillespie.
uncluttered white spaces launches our TV channel white spaces TV in conjunction with Theme Media and Blip.TV.
As an extension of our online voice. We are taking the discussions on business, marketing, strategy, design and people a step further with online TV providing remarkable thought leaders and innovators with a platform to share there idea’s.
In the coming months, we [...]
Springwise :: Top 10 business ideas for 2010.
Springwise have posted their top 10 business idea’s for 2010. The Springwise web site reviews thousands of business models and concepts. The extraction of good idea’s for 2010 provides an inspiring list of idea’s and focus points for companies of all sizes.
1. Small-scale food production using membership models
The past year or two saw a huge [...]
YouTube Streaming Movies.
Gizmodo reports: 2010 looks like the year YouTube will leap back into headlines for non-Susan Boyle-related reasons. Thank god for that. After yesterday’s live cricket streaming deal was mentioned, their move into online movie rentals should make indie movie lovers happy.
Taking on Netflix, Apple TV, Xbox Live and the PlayStation Network, YouTube’s new rental service [...]
Announcing IF Melbourne:: Innovating business in 2010.
uncluttered white spaces is hosting an innovation forum in Melbourne on Tuesday the 23rd of February 2010 from 7-PM @ Denmark House
The INNOVATION FORUM is where remarkable thought leaders come together to share ideas. The forums channel energy and direction towards solving the pressing issues for organisations both large and small across varying markets and [...]