Core77 and Fast Company cover IDEO’s Designs On— Packaging online launch. Expired and Synthetic Biology are spotlighted.

IDEO’s Duane Bray sits down with Smashing Magazine to discuss agile development, digital prototyping, and why he still sketches interfaces out on paper.

KALW 91.7 FM broadcasts Tim Brown and Yves Behar’s Commonwealth Club conversation on design thinking. Check out the segment here.

Fast Company’s Co. Design summarizes IDEO’s creative ideation exercise “Brand New IDEO” and hints at what brand identity may look like 15 years from now. Click here for the full article and check out the IDEO Tumblr site here.

By Paula Goldman and Suzanne Gibbs Howard

In To Tweet Or Not to Tweet: What Business Can Learn From Social Movements, Suzanne Gibbs Howard explains how design principles gleaned from social movements can help organizations achieve influence at scale in the Spring 2013 issue of Rotman Magazine.

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Two IDEO projects are named Webby Honorees in the 17th Annual Webby Awards, recognizing excellence on the Internet. Sesame Street’s Elmo Calls App was selected in the Best Use of Device Camera category and Sunlight Foundation’s Sitegeist App was recognized in two categories — Best Use of GPS or Location Technology category and Education and Reference category.

GRID Magazine’s editor in chief, Gerrit Terstiege, talks with IDEO’s Leif Huff about nurturing successful collaboration, design consulting and how IDEO works with clients.

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Core77 begins their exclusive coverage of IDEO’s creative ideation exercise, “Brand New IDEO,” centered on a 24-hour global Make-a-Thon starting in Tokyo and ending in San Francisco.

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IDEO’s Singapore studio brought together a group of designers and civil servants for its inaugural Make-a-thon, inspired by the concepts from a recent OpenIDEO challenge hosted by the National Environment Agency. TODAY, a major national newspaper in Singapore, covered the fast-and-furious weekend in a two-page spread.

OpenIDEO’s Nathan Waterhouse on “Nine Ways Business Can Improve Health in the Workplace and Beyond” in The Guardian.

Andrew Burroughs shows the new Chicago Sun-Times business magazine around IDEO’s creative make space in the city’s West Loop. View the entire slideshow here.

In a post entitled “Creative Leadership Is Gardening, Not Architecture,” for Metropolis Magazine, Michael Hendrix writes about how Brian Eno has helped him lead the IDEO Boston studio.

IDEO has customized the software platform that runs OpenIDEO.com to help the Knight Foundation transform the way they run their news challenges and issue grants. Their first challenge is around Open Government and is open to anyone to submit proposals. Join the challenge and submit your ideas here.

Following IDEO’s appearance on 60 Minutes in January, this follow up piece on CBS This Morning spotlights how we form project teams and create impact through design. The story is told through the lens of a specific design challenge: How might we encourage healthier eating habits in young children?

By Tom Hulme

In “Open-source your product to unlock its full potential,” published in WIRED UK, Tom Hulme writes about designing for emergence.