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27 May Marketers Are Addicted to the Wrong Tools

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Are you using the right marketing tools? It matters.

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27 May The man who can change your mood with light and sound

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We find out how sci-fi artist Marcus Lyall, one of MINI’s four ‘future shapers’, reads human emotion to be able to change it with sensory experiences.

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27 May Tiananmen Square photographer Stuart Franklin on seven of his favourite pictures

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‘Photography is a creative impulse, close to an addiction for me. Most days I take pictures, and when I don’t for a while my life feels incomplete’.

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23 May NYC’s Central Park photographed in infrared by Paolo Pettigiani

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Photographer and graphic designer Paolo Pettigiani recently took a stroll through New York’s Central Park armed with an infrared lens and took a number of fantastic shots that show the iconic park in a whole new light.

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23 May Clever C-shaped handle, inverted umbrella lets you use your phone in the rain

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Worried about dropping your phone while holding an umbrella? Say goodbye to that fear with this clever umbrella design.

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20 May A curved concrete library in British Columbia

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Bing Thom Architects has completed a library near Vancouver featuring angled concrete walls, curved windows and a pointy corner that resembles a ship’s bow.

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20 May How IDEO Designers Persuade Companies to Accept Change

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They engage decision makers’ emotions.

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20 May A (more) complete picture of Design

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In the last 15 years, design education has dramatically changed. Generally speaking, at the beginning of 2000s, design education was pretty much the job of art and design schools, and mostly had a learning-by-doing approach, involving hands-on studio-based assignments. It was rare to find a design course heavy on “lecture” format classes, unpacking the design process, or…

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20 May Design thinking in the corporate DNA

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By Suzanne Pellican

We started our journey to bring design thinking into Intuit more than eight years ago. We call it Design for Delight (D4D) — because it’s not about the process; it’s about exceeding the expectations of our customers in ways they couldn’t imagine. We realized that not everyone had the necessary innovation skills. Most of our employees hadn’t been trained, in school or at other jobs, to solve problems with design thinking. So, we needed to build the capability into all 8,000 employees to spur on innovation and ensure we create amazing experiences for our customers.

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20 May Meet Margaret Hamilton, the badass ’60s programmer who saved the moon landing

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The Apollo 11 lunar lander’s computer almost faltered — but her great code saved it.

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