The Boston Globe covers Boston Beer’s quest to design the perfect can for Samuel Adams and spotlights IDEO’s involvement in the project. Read the article here.

Metropolis and Fast Company’s Co.Design celebrate IDEO designer Elger Oberwelz’s Love Letter to Node, a video and series of stills that tell a love story between two chairs and celebrates IDEO’s work with Steelcase. Happy Valentines Day!

Fast Company’s Co.Design covers Food Genius Reports, a powerful food-trends dashboard the company developed in collaboration with IDEO while they were a Startup-in-Residence.

The Wall Street Journal’s Venture Capital Dispatch blog features David Webster and his 2013 Burrill Digital Health Meeting presentation on healthy behavior and the design of mobile apps.

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IDEO’s CEO and president Tim Brown reflects on his time at the 2013 World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland in this week’s LinkedIn post.

GigaOm on how the Sunlight Foundation and IDEO teamed up to create Sitegeist, an app that uses location-based census data to help you understand more about where you are.

In Adaptive Innovation: Launch, Learn, Repeat, Arvind Gupta explains how teams can iterate an offering, product, or business model in sync with evolving market needs and stay ahead of the competition. (View the full Winter 2013 issue of Rotman Magazine here.)

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Fast Company talks to IDEO’s Albert Lee about innovating ideas. IDEO’s Dennis Boyle also talks to FastCo about the Palm V in 10 Conversations That Changed Our World.

Over a year ago, IDEO launched the Design Thinking for Educators toolkit. Since that time, we’ve incorporated feedback from educators, reformatted the book for clarity, and created an accompanying workbook to support teachers through their process. Download the new toolkit here and check out the updated website here.

Mayor Mike Bloomberg launches The Gap App Challenge, designed by IDEO. The New York City Department of Education approached IDEO to identify and frame a challenge for software developers to submit apps that enhance teaching and learning middle school math. Learn more about the project on the NYC government’s site and watch video coverage of the press conference.

Charlie Rose visits IDEO and interviews co-founder David Kelley in this segment of 60 Minutes. Rose also discusses the future of design thinking with Tim Brown and delves deeper into human-centered design with David in his home. 60 Minutes also checked in with the IDEO Toy Lab. View all of the footage from 60 Minutes’ time at IDEO here.

The Wall Street Journal spotlights a high-end home fitness machine roundup which leads with the Allegro 2 Pilates reformer, designed by IDEO.

In the spirit of building and making, create an IDEO bot at bots.ideo.com to share with the world. Happy holidays from IDEO!

The Business Times profiles IDEO Singapore’s work with Changi General Hospital. As part of the feature, one doctor says that the redesigned Orthopaedic Clinic, which IDEO focused on, “has enabled the same number of nurses to serve a larger pool of doctors” and allowed for quicker clearing of queues in the space. Read more about Changi General Hospital’s revamped healthcare delivery system on the Business Times site.

MyFord Mobile — the smartphone app that helps electric vehicle owners learn smarter driving behaviors — won a 2013 IxDA Award in the “optimizing category.”