The WSJ highlights companies and venues that are helping arts-goers digitally curate their offline cultural experiences, saying the app revolution may be “best suited to the Lincoln Center, where it’s often hard to keep track of everything going on.” IDEO and the Lincoln Center designed the app that allows people to purchase tickets, learn more about the venue, create a personal calendar, and share events they’re attending with friends via Facebook and email.

David Kelley spoke at TED2012, and now his talk on building creative confidence is posted on the TED site. Watch the video here.

In German business magazine Impulse, IDEO’s Leif Huff discusses how large corporations can learn from start-ups.

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At the 2012 Mashable Connect Conference, IDEO’s Duane Bray presented “6 Ways of Anticipating Future Digital Behavior” and points to current human behaviors that help us to see what the future might look like. Read more about the talk here.

IDEO’s Future of the Book concept wins a Webby in the Experimental & Weird Category.

Webby Honorees include IDEO.org for Charitable Organizations/Non-Profits and GoGo Inflight Portal for Best Navigation/Structure.

By Tim Brown

IDEO CEO and president Tim Brown discusses how design is evolving away from a Newtonian model and toward a Darwinian model to meet the needs of an increasingly complex world.

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ShopWell, a food information site and mobile app that got its start at IDEO, was featured on NBC’s TODAY show in a segment about online tools designed to help shoppers make healthier choice at the grocery store. Watch the segment here.

GOOD sought out 40 organizations with between 100 and 1,000 employees that are working for a smarter and better world. Check out the IDEO section under the “Creative” tab here.

IDEO partner and car enthusiast Diego Rodriguez pens an article about what defines a game changer for motorsports magazine RACER. He ends with this: “Racers responsible for tomorrow’s innovations want forward-looking, entrepreneurial playing fields ... where the name of the game is doing the most with what you’ve got. Long live the racer’s garage, and all the future game changers brewing within.” The full article is available in the May print edition and under a subscription at the RACER site.

Duane Bray dives into his background and talks about the potential for reinvention at IDEO. Read the interview here.

FastCoDesign discusses IDEO’s work for Balanced Body, the leading Pilates equipment manufacturer.

By Colin Raney

Tectonic shifts in culture and technology over the past decade have rapidly accelerated change in the market. How do you evolve your organization and your strategy regularly and rapidly in order to compete? Colin Raney offers up five tips on the Harvard Business Review blog.

Jeff Chapin talked about design’s ability to enable conversations at TEDxChange: The Big Picture, an event hosted by TED and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Jeff shared the stage with Baaba Maal, Melinda Gates, Sven Giegold, and Theo Sowa. Catch his talk at 3:38 here.

Make Magazine features IDEO London’s Make-a-thon event on their Makezine blog here.

Andrea Kershaw, IDEO Singapore’s location director, sits down with the outlet to discuss her thoughts on why nurturing creativity in schools is so important now, and how to enable teachers – who are creative leaders themselves – to become drivers of change.

IDEO’s CEO and President, Tim Brown, spoke about new concepts in design at the 2012 New Zealand Trade & Enterprise “Better By Design” CEO Summit. Read Tim’s discussion with Idealog here and watch the talk here.

Social sector innovators, unite! IDEO.org, IDEO’s sister nonprofit organization, with support from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, launched the HCD Connect platform today.

People using HCD (human-centered design) methods and approaches can now connect with other people working on similar projects and in similar geographies, and ask questions to a growing HCD community. Check out a blog post about the platform on Impatient Optimists, the Bill & Melinda Gates blog. GOOD, Core77 and Public Interest Design also covered the platform.

Tom Hulme speaks about Designing for Emergence at TEDxCSM: four ways we can design to have value emerge and capture it. Watch the film here.

Marriott, Steelcase, and IDEO are coming together to design, create, and test concepts and solutions for the future of work and meetings in hotels. Read Marriott’s news release about the collaboration here.

In an interview with German Wirtschaftswoche, IDEO Munich co-lead Leif Huff discusses how companies can become more innovative. Read the full story here.

A smart bicycle light prototype, created by participants of the first IDEO London Make-a-thon, features in Financial Times “Innovation Barometer.” Read the article online here.

The European Commission looks to the OpenIDEO community for ideas on how to support web entrepreneurs in launching and growing sustainable global businesses. Read the post here.

89.3 KPCC Southern California Public Radio, the Pasadena, California, NPR affiliate, dives into Los Angeles County’s voting system. As a partner for the voting accessibility challenge on OpenIDEO, IDEO’s open innovation platform, the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF) are working to come up with solutions to accessibility challenges faced by people who can’t cast their ballot privately and independently. Download the audio and read the transcript here.

By Paul Bennett

Paul discusses the role of “home” in his Curiosity Chronicles column.

The World Economic Forum has appointed IDEO Design Director Tom Hulme as a Young Global Leader in recognition of his “professional accomplishments, commitment to society, and potential to contribute to shaping the future of the world.” He is one of 192 young leaders from 59 countries to receive the honor in 2012. Watch Tom interviewed here about the next generation of leaders and the challenges and opportunities they face.

David speaks about the need for creative confidence at the TED2012 conference. His wish: “Don’t divide the world into ‘creative’ and ‘non-creative.’ Let people realize they are naturally creative. .. When people regain that confidence, magic happens.” Read a summary of David’s talk on the TED blog.

Ian Sanders of Monocle Radio’s “The Entrepreneurs” interviews IDEO Design Director Tom Hulme about IDEO, design thinking and entrepreneurship. Listen to Tom’s interview here and find the full podcast of the show here.

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Join IDEO Founder David Kelley and the faculty of Stanford’s Design Group for the 2012 Innovation Masters Series.

For three days, Stanford University will open up its design labs and classrooms to executives, business leaders, and decision makers faced with the daunting task of retooling and revitalizing their enterprises. Senior faculty will lead you through hands-on workshops where you will learn the problem-solving tools and problem-finding frameworks that lead to innovation and strategic leadership, pioneered by the Design Group and the d.school at Stanford. Find out more at: scpd.stanford.edu/design

IDEO is excited to be a member of MIT’s Media Lab. This collaboration will allow us to learn and build upon the Lab’s cutting-edge research, and together, we can create a better understanding of the ways technology influences the way people think, behave, and live.

The Media Lab was founded in 1985 to apply an unorthodox, “antidisciplinary” approach to research at the convergence of design, multimedia, and technology. As technology’s reach and influence has expanded, so has the Media Lab’s focus. Examples of current areas of research include biomechatronics, the future of cities, molecular machines, and synthetic neurobiology.

We’re looking forward to exploring the boundaries of people’s interactions with technologies and systems through the Lab’s community and work.

IDEO’s Wounded Warrior work with Michael Graves Design for Clark Realty Capital was featured in Metropolis magazine. The story includes quotes by IDEO’s Altay Sendil and Casey Nolan of Clark Realty Capital. Read the article here.

Forbes talks with David Aycan about how start-ups’ techniques for growth and innovation can be applied to larger organizations. Read more about David’s thoughts on adopting new-venture capabilities and empowering employees here.

IDEO’s Wounded Warrior work with Michael Graves Design for Clark Realty Capital was featured on NPR’s Morning Edition. The story includes discussions with IDEO’s David Haygood, project director Casey Nolan of Clark Realty Capital, and Retired Army Captain Alvin Shell. For a transcript and audio of the interview, click here.

NPJhub.org is a blog and resource center for community-based and nonprofit journalism. A post about IDEO kicks off a series that focuses on companies that can serve as inspiration for news organizations.

Fast Company’s Co.Design dives into IDEO’s work on the redesigned Sealy mattress and messaging, asking, how do you convince a customer to pay more for a mattress when there aren’t outward physical differences? Read the post here. CBS’ SmartPlanet bases its coverage on the FastCoDesign story here.

Fred explores some of the shifts that he believes will change the way we behave and engage with the world. Read more about his thoughts on the ways art and design influence each other, and the role of heritage in innovation, here.

GreenBiz covers OpenIDEO’s Vibrant Cities challenge, calling it “a prototype for all that’s possible in creating a more sustainable world.” Read the post here.

Health startup Scanadu “wants to make sure the future of medicine remains a human-centered experience.” Read Fortune’s on the company’s vision for the health device and IDEO’s involvement here.

By Dana Cho and Beau Trincia

In a 5-page feature, IDEO partner Dana Cho and IDEO environments designer Beau Trincia show why tough economic times and emerging technologies are prompting consumers to change their buying behavior, and how smart retailers are responding with innovative in-store offerings.

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Ryan Jacoby gives insight into why it’s so hard to save, and how to keep money resolutions by visualizing goals. Read the full article here.

IDEO New York’s Ryan Jacoby is one of four experts asked to share predictions for design and innovation in 2012. Read more about his thoughts on what’s to come on the SmartPlanet site.

By Paul Bennett

Paul discusses the role of dignity in design in his Curiosity Chronicles column.

Singapore’s Straits Times, the most widely read newspaper in the country, publishes an interview with IDEO Chief Creative Officer Paul Bennett. Paul encourages the government to continue to take risks and co-create with constituents.

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The Atlantic interviews IDEO’s Steve Bishop about the ways sustainability influences innovation and design.

Core77 dives into IDEO’s work on the Wounded Warrior Home Project led by Clark Realty Capital. Together with Michael Graves of Michael Graves and Associates, IDEO designed homes for service members returning to active duty after being injured.

The AIGA’s Making the Case awards demonstrate the measurable success and impact of great design. HackFwd and OpenIDEO were two of nine winners selected from hundreds of great entries. Read the full case studies here.

Core77 takes an in-depth look at Bedsider.org, calling it a “smart and thorough, multi-faceted approach to behavior design, especially in a complex arena.” For more on IDEO’s work on Bedsider, click here.

By Tim Brown

Tim Brown discusses how design thinking can help tackle social issues by building empathy, discovering the unmet needs of the end user and more. Read the article here.

As part of a tour of Tech City, London’s East End technology hub, Prime Minister David Cameron stopped by IDEO London’s studio for a visit. The Prime Minister came to check out OpenIDEO, IDEO’s networked innovation platform, talk policy with Tom Hulme, and meet with several start-ups located in the White Bear Yard location. For more on the Prime Minister’s tech tour of East London, click here.

With the addition to the Tech City map, IDEO has been recognized as an integral part of the London start-up scene. Check out the influence page here and read more about East London’s Tech City here.

Health tech startup, and IDEO partner Scanadu, who recently presented at TEDMED, was featured in TechCrunch for their first product: the “Medical Tricorder.” The Tricorder, a mobile health-diagnostic tool built specifically with parents in mind, seeks to avoid unnecessary trips to the hospital due to deficient health information. You can view an interaction of Scanadu’s core vision here and learn more about Scanadu here.

As one of 13 Entrepreneurs-in-Residence, Diego will advise Harvard Business School MBA students on a part-time basis for the academic year.

Paul Bennett introduces his monthly Metropolis column with a post on curiosity and learning. He hopes to give readers “a window into what I am seeing, hearing, feeling and hopefully, how it inspires me and how I hope it can inspire you.”

OpenIDEO takes home a silver Lovie Award in the Social & Community category. The Lovie Awards recognize the unique and resonant nature of the European Internet community. For more on the awards competition and OpenIDEO’s big win, visit lovieawards.eu.

The front page of Sunday’s San Francisco Chronicle captures David’s life through the lens of unlocking creativity, classic cars, and making an impact.

In “Innovation 101,” IDEO’s chairman and founder David Kelley talks about regaining creative confidence.

Tim Brown and Joi Ito lead a conversation at the MIT Media Lab around design’s relationship with current challenges and platforms.

The Oregon Manifest Creative Collaborations Bicycle Challenge has come to a close with the announcement of the People’s Choice winner. Voters chose Faraday, the bike designed and built by IDEO and Rock Lobster Cycles. Read more about the Faraday here. A journal of the bike’s build over the past eight months can be found on Core77.

Patrice Martin explains that IDEO.org‘s approach to design starts with learning about the lives, needs, and aspirations of the people who will eventually use the products being designed, instead of making assumptions. The article highlights the new products and services for in-home sanitation IDEO developed with Water & Sanitation for the Urban Poor (WSUP) and Unilever for city dwellers in Ghana.

Fast Company highlights synthetic biology work by IDEO designers Will Carey and Adam Reineck. The article explains how they are working with scientists at UCSF on a concept that would use E. coli bacteria to form objects when exposed to light. To read more, visit FastCompany.com.

By James Moed

James Moed’s “Retail Banks Turning to Design,” is included in the Sept.-Oct. issue of Banking Today, a publication of the Hong Kong Institute of Bankers. In this three-page spread, James writes about rethinking retail banking from the customers’ point of view and how international banks are recognizing good design as a critical element to their retail banking products and services.

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As part of its “Brightest Ideas” issue, Time Out Chicago’s Jake Malooley visits IDEO’s West Loop location to learn about how we collaborated on the future of pharmacy with Walgreens, State Farm’s Next Door learning lab and more. Read the full story here.

The Oregon Manifest Bicycle Challenge, a bicycle design competition which challenged the nation’s top bike builders, wrapped up this past weekend in Portland, Oregon. Reviews of IDEO’s bicycle, the Faraday, created with Rock Lobster cycles can be found on CNET and BikePortland.org, along with a journal of its build over the past eight months on Core77.

Read more about the Faraday here and cast your vote at OregonManifest.com/collaborations.

IDEO.org announced its initial projects and fellowship class. Read more about what IDEO.org will be working on and the team members on Design Observer, Core77, Public Interest Design, and MediaBistro’s Unbeige.

Tim Brown, Fred Dust, and David Kelley are part of Fast Company‘s annual Masters of Design issue. Check out these three links to see where they fit in the 2011 edition.

IDEO’s Brendan Boyle and Joe Wilcox talk about the importance of play, and how to build a culture that encourages prototyping and experimentation.

Tim is interviewed for the Fixes series, which asks CEOs, academics, and other creative thinkers for one idea that might help the economy. Tim talks about apprenticeship and the way it helps facilitate tacit learning. Hear the interview and read the transcript here.

Design for Change, a design based school competition which started with the Design for Giving contest in 2009, has won an INDEX award in the work category. Design for Change is the largest global movement designed to give children the opportunity to put their ideas into action.

IDEO also had several INDEX finalists including Lars Hinrichs’ HackFwd, OpenIDEO and AskNature.org. Read more about the 2011 awards here.

IDEO communications designer Elle Luna speaks at The Designer Fund’s Designer Fair about the humanity of brands. To read more about the talk, visit FastCompany.com.

An expat living in Singapore writes about his experience at the Ministry of Manpower’s Employment Pass Services Center, which IDEO helped redesign.

By Heather Emerson and Ashlea Powell

In a 5-page feature, IDEO designers Heather Emerson and Ashlea Powell show why service providers who recognize our growing desire to navigate our own experiences are on their way to greater customer satisfaction.

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United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announces that the U.S. State Department will be working with the American Refugee Committee (ARC) and IDEO on the “Neighbors” campaign to raise awareness and funds for the relief effort in Somalia. A video and transcript of the speech are available here.

To read more about IDEO’s prior work with the American Refugee Committee read here.

Pascal Soboll talks about how banks can differentiate themselves through innovation. In German language in Geldinstitute in June 2011.

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U.S. news show First Business News covers the IDEO Chicago office’s LEED updates. Watch the segment here.

Core77 takes a look at the IDEO Labs post on the exquisite corpse experiment. See the post here, and go to Labs to see what happens when you combine Flickr tags, RSVP responses, and the elements of a never-ending story.

Page Kreativmagazin talks about IDEO’s work with the Spanish bank BBVA and their ATM interface in the New York Museum of Modern Art’s Talk to Me exhibit. In German language.

The Huffington Post covers IDEO’s work with several U.S. federal agencies who have “embarked on a quest to streamline and innovate.”

Global Entrepreneur magazine talks with IDEO Shanghai about their work for Midea, transforming their understanding of innovation and how design can truly change the lives of Chinese people. For the English-language version, click here.

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OpenIDEO — IDEO’s networked innovation platform — was awarded the winner of the Service Design category in Core77’s first ever awards program. IDEO’s work for Bedsider took the win for strategy/research while HackFwd, Steelcase node and Future of the Book were awarded runner up and professional notable awards respectively.

For more on the awards, read here.

IDEO was awarded 12 International Design Excellence Awards (IDEAs) by the IDSA and Fast Company, with winning designs ranging from the future of self-service banking to designing homes for wounded veterans.

Gold

• Bedsider for the National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy (Service Design)
• Long-Haul Travel Experience for Air New Zealand (Research)

Silver

• The Design for Giving Contest for Riverside School (Service Design)
• Long-Haul Travel Experience for Air New Zealand (Transportation)
• Redefining Self-Service Banking for BBVA Group (Commercial & Industrial Products)
• node Chair for Steelcase (Office & Productivity)
• ’Wounded Warriors’ for Clark Realty (Research)

Bronze

• Balloonimals iPhone app (Interactive Product Experiences)
• Bedsider for the National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy (Research)
• Bedsider for the National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy (Design Strategy)
• Long-Haul Travel Experience for Air New Zealand (Interiors)
• media:scape for Steelcase (Office & Productivity)

For more on the winners, read here.

China DESIGN interviews IDEO Shanghai Design Director Tony Wong and discusses the future of good design in China. For the English-language version, click here.

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Sandy Speicher talks about human-centered design and the relevance of new concepts on NPR’s Talk of the Nation show, “From Muses to Music: Where Ideas Come From.”

Fred Dust, David Kelley, and Sandy Speicher spoke as part of this year’s Aspen Ideas Festival, held June 27-July 4 in Aspen, Colorado.

Fred and David shared the stage for “How Is Design Inspiring New Directions in Education and Our Society?,” and Sandy spoke on a panel titled, “How Do We Design the Learning Environments of the Future?”

IDEO’s Boston studio hosted a TEDx Boston Adventure, part of a TEDx series that combines the Boston region and the TED mission. The day-long workshop that centered around the theme, “What are innovative ways to harness & celebrate the delights of local culture?” Core77 writes about the experience here.

Where do the advertising world and IDEO intersect? Creativity Unbound’s Edward Boches describes places where agencies could gain inspiration from the process and methods of design.

How can large companies hold on to their core businesses while capturing growth opportunities? IDEO’s Tom Hulme talks to Forbes about the ways larger organizations can apply start-up strategies.

Metropolis features IDEO’s work in the public sector as the cover story of its June 2011 issue.

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China Entrepreneur magazine accompanies Paul Bennett, IDEO’s Global Chief Creative Director, on an innovation trip in Shanghai, and experiences the creative force in IDEO and reflects on the lost cultural consciousness in China. For the English-language version, click here.

《中国企业家》杂志跟随IDEO全球首席创意官Paul Bennett踏上在上海的创意体验之旅，感受着一个创新组织的强大气场和身为中国人遗失的文化自觉。

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Huffington Post writes on the benefits of bringing design thinking into the classroom. One place to start: the Design Thinking for Educators toolkit, a resource for teachers that adapts the process and methods of design specifically for the context of education.

Tom Hulme, a design director in IDEO London, took the 55th spot on a list of the UK’s top 100 “digital power brokers from innovators to investors.”

OpenIDEO, IDEO’s open innovation platform, and Grover’s Number Special, a Sesame Street iPhone app designed in collaboration with IDEO, both won Webby Awards in the Community and Games-Tablet & All Other categories, respectively.

IDEO’s Ilya Prokopoff contributes his thoughts to the World Economic Forum’s Forumblog.org about his time at WEF Latin America. The event was held April 27-29 in Rio de Janeiro. Read his posts here, here, and here.

In “Meta Design” Designaré talks to Tim about working with the government, sustaining an innovative culture, and leadership lessons learned.

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Condé Nast Traveler covers Air New Zealand’s economy-class makeover and IDEO’s involvement in the overhaul. “We realized that we could be the first airline to break through the barrier,” says Air New Zealand’s Norm Thompson.

IDEO’s Boston studio was filmed as a part of the Boston ABC affiliate WCVB’s Chronicle news show. The segment was titled, “Why We Buy,” and explored what motivates consumers to spend. IDEO talks about the retail experience and gives viewers a look at parts of the design process in this segment.

Pascal Soboll is interviewed about IDEO’s work with BBVA.

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David is interviewed about leadership and the role of empathy in developing people. He talks about the need for creative confidence – the belief in one’s own creative capabilities – and how a design approach can help to hone this skill.

Cool Tools calls the Method Cards “a great resource for people interested in finding new ways of thinking and brainstorming solutions.”

By Kara Johnson

IDEO’s Kara Johnson writes an article on punk manufacturing, which she defines as “modern craft. It’s the idea that people want, to some extent, to create the stuff they buy or use, even if it is mass-produced.” She believes that “as punk manufacturing begins to gain influence, it will help designers and the people they work with set a new standard for manufacturing and a new type of market.”

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The National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy’s Larry Swiader and IDEO’s Jenn Maer spoke about their work on the Bedsider birth control method at SXSW on a panel titled, “Rebranding Birth Control: Behavior Change Through Design.” Read the Examiner’s coverage here.

The iO-Flex surgical system, design by IDEO with Baxano Inc. won a gold MDEA award in the surgical equipment, instruments and supplies category. More on the award here.