Why Common Wisdom is Often Unwise
Heard this recently; “There’s always room for improvement”? What about “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it”? W. Edwards Deming was an American engineer and statistician who educated the Japanese about quality control for the best part of the last century. Imagine that. He was worshipped in Japan for his ability to find continual improvements [...]
7 Collaborative Companies That Will Change The Future.
We have curated a list 7 of our favorite sharing platforms. Collaborative consumption is used to describe the cultural and economic force away from ‘hyper-consumption’ to re-invented economic models of sharing, swapping, bartering, trading or renting. These methods have been enabled by advances in social media and peer-to-peer platforms over the past 12-24 months. In [...]
87 Really Cool Things According to Google
Insanely insightful. This presentation from Google, describing several cases of succesful and creative uses of their platform is full of awesomeness. A must for everybody with a bit of a techie, creative, planner or just bored. Click on the image now. Quick.
Electrolux – Cleaning Up the Oceans, Turning Garbage into Vacuums
Home appliance manufacturer Electrolux is setting out to clean up plastic-covered marine environments and turn the spoils into a limited range of vacuum cleaners. Causing the deaths of over a million seabirds and 100,000 mammals and sea turtles each year, Electrolux hopes ‘Vac From the Sea’ will raise much-needed awareness on marine trash and ‘environmental [...]
The Four Pillars of Awesomeness… fed by Passion
Lets talk about awesomeness. However, lets start with awareness and what it means? Surely it is the ability to uncover and pursue what you can do best. Such as knowing know what drives you. How does your drive scale throughout your life? Your company? Your market? Does your definition of awareness or drive differ from [...]
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 [...]
Palladium Extend the Pirate Radio Concept to Bread & Butter Berlin
Following the success of London Pirate Radio, a documentary created by Palladium and VICE, and the Palladium x Logan Sama Mix tape release, Palladium continues their association with grime music at Bread & Butter Berlin 2010 with an exciting extension of the pirate radio concept. Palladium and VICE are creating Palladium Radio, a unique pop [...]
A 6 year old girls vision of the future
Last night, a 6 year old friend read me her school speech on the future for her year 1 class. It really moved me so I thought I would share it with you. Whilst the little author of this piece did not hint at becoming a writer, she did however say it was ok that [...]
Taking the Online Voice offline with “Real World” meet-ups.
Springwise has curated a list of 5 social networks that take the online idea of networking to an offline meet up in the “real world”. There is a current trend towards meet ups in Australia with some innovative thought leaders bringing together people on a social environment to share ideas such as SOCIAL MELBOURNE. 5 [...]
Learning to make fewer mistakes and further insights.
If you have a little spare time to explore, follow this link to Wikipedia’s list of Cognitive Biases. It’s an amazing summary of all the ways that our brains fail us. Sobering, but also empowering. As an individual, a project team, a company or a country, there’s two paths to success: Do amazing things Do [...]
Museum of London Launch iPhone App | Streetmuseum
The Museum of London recently released a free iPhone app called Streetmuseum which incorporates their extensive art and photographic collections with augmented reality. According to the museum, the application would be providing users a window through time. The app leads you to various locations around London using either the map or GPS. This app allows the present and the [...]
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 [...]
Mel Mueller | Rugwind Create A Cosy Bench for you and the People
German design studio Rugwind have created a great bit of social furniture. A cosy bench, for you and the people in your neighbourhood. The project, Guerilla Bench aims to subvert the objects of the typical urban environment, making them more human and functional. A bench that neatly folds up inside a standard European electrical box. A user simply opens [...]
What is More Important, Strategy or Culture?
Thursday morning and a coffee break during an important meeting in Melbourne. I was sitting in a really cool coffee shop in Flinders Lane and bumped into an old friend. He runs an Ad agency in Melbourne, its a new company and still in start up phase. As he ducked off to place an order, [...]
Core77 | Real Estate Bust: How Creatives Are Carving Up L.A.’s Empty Space
Posted by Alissa Walker | 31 Mar 2010 on Core77 | If there’s one thing wide, sprawly Los Angeles can pride itself on having, it’s an abundance of space. But now, as I walk though neighborhoods filled with empty box stores and strip malls, I realize we may have far too much of it. Luckily, we’re also blessed [...]
A VUE of the future with Issey Miyake
It is remarkable that the most real feeling in perception of time “the present”, cannot be measured in any units of time. Present is duration-less, it is an infinitesimal. Nevertheless, both the past and the future, which are seen as durations in time, encroach on the present. So why is it, that we all think more about [...]
The Deli Garage Lets You Spray Paint Your Own Food!
Are you adventurous with food but ever feel like your food doesn’t amaze you enough, does it look boring or need some life? Then Esslack Food Spray may be just the right thing for you. Thanks to the very clever German team – The Deli Garage – you can now stain your tomato, pretzels, and [...]
IKEA proving they are “More than a furniture Store”
The Swedish furniture and lifestyle brand IKEA has demonstrated originality and creativity in their unique and experiential marketing strategies. The international retailer’s most recent campaign involves the replacement of a great number of benches in four important and high-traffic metro stations in Paris – St. Lazare, Champs-Elysées Clémenceau, Concorde, and Opéra. From March 10th to [...]
McNally Jackson Books Cafe by Front Studio
There will be winners and losers in the changing publishing industry, the catalyst being the emerging world of, e-books. Books are recognised as big winners if they are large blockbusters. Therefore it is the humble independent bookstores that are precious sanctuaries playing an essential role. Independent bookstores nurturing unique personalities stringing community links are significantly responsible [...]
Ecosia:: The worlds greenest search engine.
Every year a rainforest area larger than England is burned or cut down. Therefore the deforestation of the tropical rainforests is the single most important source of CO2 emissions in the world and about 20% of all global CO2 emissions are caused by rainforest deforestation. It is a major contributor to: • Global warming • [...]
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 [...]
Rick Klotz on the world’s got problems.
As a continuation on our series tracking the devlopments at Freshjive (or formerly known as) in relation to the recent name changes, we found this short documentary intruiging, controversial with plenty of room for interpretation. If we can take 1 insight from Rick’s approach, it is certainly that he is prepared to put it out [...]
Squares, Triangles and the Art of Perspective with Aaskash Nihalani
The US-American street artist Aakash Nihalani is one of the best-known representatives of the new street-art trend, who works with the medium of tape in public places around New York. Aakash explains: My work is created in a reaction to what we readily encounter in our lives, sidewalks and doorways, building and bricks. I’m just connecting the [...]
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 [...]
