WEEKLY EMAIL: SEPTEMBER 22, 2011
FEATURED THIS WEEK : JULIE LASKY
IDEO Innovators in Residence
IDEO.org unveils its first class of fellows.READ MORE
THE EDITORS
10 Things Acumen Fund Has Learned About Tackling Global Poverty
A new website, with a clear framing of principles, marks the organization's first decade.READ MORE
PHOTO BY IAIN MCKELL
The New Gypsies
Painted caravan, from The New Gypsies (Prestel USA, 2011)READ MORE
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RACHEL SIGNER
Don't Flush Me
Leif Percifield, a graduate student at Parsons, who describes himself as a “Hacker, Interactive Developer, and Geek,” hopes to install a prototype of a sensor that will allow New York City sewers to “talk back” to residents.READ MORE
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JOHN THACKARA
Iceland: Eaten Alive, or Growing to Live?
"Who needs oil when you have rain?" The ad for Landsvirkjun, Iceland's national energy company, dominates this month's Icelandair magazine. The message is not disguised: Iceland is blessed with massive amounts of clean energy. The true picture on the ground, sad to say, is murkier.READ MORE
THE EDITORS
Yves Béhar Wins Second INDEX Award
In the world of philanthropic prizes for social design, lightning does strike twice. Yves Béhar, founder of the San Francisco design company Fuseproject, has won the prestigious INDEX award in the “Body” category for a program launched in Mexico to test and correct children’s vision.READ MORE
PHIL PATTON
The Green Dashboard
Many features of a car reveal personality as much as performance. The instrument panel used to tell many tales — of water temperature and oil pressure, amps and volts, revolutions per minute and pounds per square inch.Now, energy-efficient technology under the hood is augmenting the instrument panel’s design.
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Transforms designers: Educating head, heart and hands.
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A totally unvarnished and uncoated look at what goes on behind the glossy world of print production.
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Climate Change Chocolate
While environmentalists debate the ethics and effectiveness of carbon offsets, designers work to make them appealing.READ MORE
UPCOMING CONFERENCE: SEPTEMBER 30, 2011
A Better World by Design
The Better World by Design Conference is a three-day internationally acclaimed event at Brown & RISD campuses in Providence, RI, that connects students, professionals and individuals from a variety of disciplines in order to build a global community of socially conscious and passionate innovators.Other Resources
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RECENT BOOKS RECEIVED
Design Driven Innovation: Changing the Rules of Competition by Radically Innovating What Things MeanRoberto Verganti
Getting to Plan B: Breaking Through to a Better Business ModelJohn Mullins & Randy Komisar
A Fine Line: How Design Strategies Are Shaping the Future of BusinessHartmut Esslinger
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