Calibrate Your Thoughts and Move a Few Steps Closer to Being Steve Jobs
What standards are you working to? My father liked his sayings, and one of the most oft spoken was the proverb “If a job’s worth doing, it’s worth doing well” But just what is a job done well? If you show a grandparent your PHD thesis, they’ll say it’s a job done well. But unless [...]
Who is Really Driving Your Strategy?
Inside most modern companies, strategic innovation is still being approached from fragmented departments in covert labs with almost zero consideration for the end consumer. Whilst this is changing, there is still an imbalance in the approach for companies and leaders in relation to innovation strategy. Running a think tank for a business in Sydney last [...]
The TED Fellows Program Continues to Empower Visionaries
The TED Fellows program continues to empower visionary makers and doers from around the world (with a specific focus on Asia-Pacific, the Caribbean, Latin America, Africa and the Middle East). With 23 new TED Global Fellows, who join 20 exceptional Senior Fellows. The fellows span a wide spectrum of disciplines—from photojournalism to biotechnology to digital choreography. —and makes for [...]
New Deal Designs Create a solution to Bottled Water
Of the 65 billion plastic water bottles we buy each year, nearly four out of five end up in a landfill or an incinerator. That’s a hell of a lot of trash when a solution is sitting in our taps in most developed nations and along with awareness of the issue all around us. NewDealDesign‘s solution: the Tami [...]
Woods Bagot Create an Inflatable Solution to New York’s Recession
In New York, the most glaring signs of the Great Recession are the stalled construction sites littering the city–boarded up, dusty, and desolate eyesores. The architecture mega-firm Woods Bagot may have a solution, which they’ve just unveiled: Temporary, inflatable buildings that let the developers make money while they wait for their finances to shape up. [...]
IF Talks Launch New Website
uncluttered white spaces has given the IF website a quick overhaul prior to the upcoming talk on sustainable futures in July. The IF talks bring together inspiring speakers in to one location with the hope that you to go away better informed and inspired to bring about change that matters. The idea of creating the innovation [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
IF TALK | A guest perspective on “The Future of Media”
INNOVATION FORUM – THE FUTURE OF MEDIA – 11/05/2010 Simon Williams is a guest (and good friend) who attended IF | The Future of Media. Simon is a musician and film producer and over the weekend, he took five minutes of his insanely hectic schedule to share his event notes with us. The IF Talk [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Mashable | 5 Masterminds That have Re-Defined the Startup
Gary Vaynerchuk Founder of Wine Library TV. He’s a well-known speaker at tech and business conferences, and he’s even got himself a book deal. Vaynerchuk may not have been the first non-technical tech startup founder, but he’s inspired, nay, driven countless others to follow in his footsteps through impassioned, expletive-laced speeches, and no-nonsense advice on [...]
Google | 5 Ways that Google Docs will improve the way you work.
And the hits just keep on coming to the Microsoft Empire. This time, Google Docs, has rolled out some great new features that combine many of the search-giants services into one handy product. The key to the overhaul is real-time collaboration. Essentially, it combines features from Buzz and Google chat to create a document-style layout, [...]
IF Sydney | The Future of Media
uncluttered white spaces through IF has curated a panel of Australia’s leaders in media, marketing, design and strategy to address the ever changing media landscape. The panel will discuss tradtional media, new media, web, social networking and the changing consumer thinking along insights into the future. The panel will address how entrepreneurs, innovators and marketers [...]
Is The iPad The Beginning Of The End For The Newspaper?
Will the newspaper disappear forever? Eventually. More in part… the paper part of news. So what happens once a newspaper or magazine goes online, it becomes neither a magazine or a newspaper. It becomes just news. There’s also a couple of environmental pluses there, of course, with decreased burden on paper production including its attendant use of [...]
IF Melbourne Part 3 | Don’t be afraid to attack your own market
In this film, uncluttered white spaces through IF Melbourne explores the insights from 6 leading strategists, marketing, social entrepreneur’s and innovators identifying the key to innovation, strategic approaches and creative thinking. The panel included Paul Breen, Mick Calder, Rebecca Scott, Sahil Merchant, Geoffrey Bowll and Ben Crowe. As Paul Breen states “do not be afraid to attack your own market, even [...]
Designer Smolyanov Michael V’s Organic bike
Designer Smolyanov Michael V has come out with a bike design that is environmentally friendly. The materials are not only eco-friendly, but also very light in weight and stronger than usual. The bike’s frames, suspension and steering components are grown from organic substances and then fastened. The bike really comes out with strong, lightweight and very [...]
Freshman Andrew Kim’s Coke Bottle Design.
Industrial design student Andrew Kim has created a very cool concept creating the square bottle. This is beautiful, and a smart use of space. Not sure if it is manufacturable, but a great idea and design nonetheless. This is an ambitious take on the iconic bottle, going square in the name of eco-friendliness. The new bottle shape [...]
IF Melbourne Part 2:: Social Responsibility
IF Melbourne on white spaces tv :: Episode 2 of 3 In late February, uncluttered white spaces hosted IF Melbourne @ Denmark House to a room for 40 guests from various networks in Melbourne to join in a forum on the broad topic of Innovation. The panel included Paul Breen, Mick Calder, Rebecca Scott, Sahil [...]
FROM THE BULL:: A hole above the waterline won’t sink a ship.
W.L. Gore & Associates is a little-known company that has $2.5bn in annual sales, 8,000 employees and 50 manufacturing facilities worldwide. The company invented the water-proof, breathable Gore Tex fabrics and is a leading manufacturer of advanced technology products for the electronics, industrial, fabrics and medical markets. Gore is one of only 12 companies that [...]
