IDEO’s Will Carey leads off a discussion about synthetic biology on the station’s By Design show. He discusses the field of synthetic biology, and how it can be used as a material and perspective on design. Listen here.

Will Work For is a design provocation created by the Collaborative Fund and IDEO to spark conversations about the future of work. Will Work For unveils an alternate present and the inevitable future: communities that create and support creation.

By Tom Kelley and David Kelley

Creative Confidence is the ability to come up with breakthrough ideas, combined with the courage to act. Tom and David Kelley expand on the concept of Creative Confidence in the latest issue of the Harvard Business Review magazine. Read ‘Reclaim Your Creative Confidence’.

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Marketplace interviews Christian Palino about how IDEO’s work on the Consumer Health Insurance Enrollment Experience can help people make sense of health care exchanges under the Affordable Care Act. Listen to the piece here.

Bloomberg‘s Tech Blog reporter Mark Milan shares his experience of IDEO.org’s Sanitation Hackathon and the challenge of solving open defecation issues in Ghana. Read Bloomberg‘s Tech Blog post here.

The London Evening Standard listed IDEO’s Tom Hulme as one of London’s 1000 most influential people of 2012. Read more about the 1000 here.

Metropolis blogger Kevin Budelmann shares a memory of IDEO co-founder Bill Moggridge and the story of IDEO’s transformation “from product design firm to strategic design thinking juggernaut.” Read the Metropolis post here.

IDEO CEO and president Tim Brown spoke with The Wall Street Journal about how firms with a product design legacy are moving into the design of systems. For example, IDEO recently designed a curriculum, classrooms, and business model for a private school system in Peru called INNOVA Schools.

Read The Wall Street Journal article here.

By Johannes Seemann

IDEO business designer Johannes Seemann bridges qualitative and quantitative research methods through an innovative approach called hybrid insights. In the latest issue of Rotman Magazine, he writes about how organizations can identify new opportunities for growth by taking a human-centered approach to market segmentation.

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How might businesses rethink their physical brand retail presence in new and strategic ways? IDEO Partner Dana Cho spoke with PSFK about helping companies design and launch innovative solutions. Read the full PSFK interview here.

The AIGA’s “Justified” Awards highlight design’s impact. Entries were judged based on their design attributes and whether their case for effectiveness was clear, compelling, and accessible. Wounded Warrior was one of 18 selected from over 400 great entries. Read the full Wounded Warrior design case study here.

By Tim Brown

Tim Brown is one of 150 thought leaders selected for LinkedIn’s original content launch, which was recently covered in Wired, Fast Company, and All Things Digital. Read Tim’s original post in the LinkedIn series here.

For more of Tim’s latest writing, follow him on LinkedIn or visit designthinking.ideo.com.

Beyond philanthropy, why should global companies invest in social impact projects in developing countries? IDEO’s CEO and President, Tim Brown, outlines five good reasons in Co.Design with Linda Tischler. Read the article here.

Bloomberg Philanthropies announces the Mayors Challenge city submissions and selection panel, which includes IDEO’s Hilary Hoeber. More at Bloomberg.org.

IDEO’s CEO and President, Tim Brown, and Fast Company’s Senior Editor, Linda Tischler, share the stage for the opening remarks of the 2012 Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) on Designing for Impact.

Watch the opening session here and read Time magazine’s kick-off summary here.

View the remaining agenda and watch IDEO and IDEO.org’s Fred Dust, Patrice Martin, Sandy Speicher and Jocelyn Wyatt on the live webcast.