Your invited to join the Vine Salon, “User-Based Design Solutions to Meet the Challenges of Community” on March 2 from 10am to 5pm — a day of hands-on workshops and collaborative design thinking exercises, followed by a wine and hors d’oeuvres reception. The event, hosted by PCBC, will take place at IDEO’s Palo Alto office.

For more information about the event or to buy tickets to the event, click here.
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Design Observer’s Ernerst Beck highlights GlobalTap, a way to bring water to haves and have-nots alike with one simple system.

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By Sandy Speicher

Sandy Speicher is included in the Metropolis article, “Back to the Future.” In the story, Sandy explains, “When you’re looking at new models of education, the first question is: How much do you want to stick to the paradigm, and how much do you want to break it?”

Read the article here.

Forbes columnist Saj-nicole Joni interviews Tim Brown about why the world needs more design thinking.

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Last night, IDEO Chicago hosted an IxDA networking / knowledge-sharing event in its brand-new Chicago studio titled “Embracing the Physical/Digital Divide: Projects and Inspiration from IDEO Chicago.” The event allowed IDEO designers to showcase cutting-edge interaction design and (re)introduce themselves to the city’s creative community.

Learn more about IxDA Chicago here.

By IDEO

Food is a complex topic — it touches on the essence of our being and our culture, all while transforming our lives in fundamental ways. Designs On– approaches food with the eyes of someone ready to enjoy a succulent meal. The results are fresh and provocative. The designers were willing to go off the beaten path, to question their personal assumptions and to move beyond the realm of expected possibilities. Designs On– Food is the third in a series of concepts, following the the topics of global warming and time.

View the Designs On– website at www.designs-on.com

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Mat Hunter, a former partner at IDEO, has been appointed as the new chief design officer for the Design Council in the United Kingdom.

Read the article in Design Week here.

By Colin Raney and Ryan Jacoby

IDEO’s Colin Raney and Ryan Jacoby wrote, “Decisions by Design: Stop Deciding, Start Designing,” in the Winter 2010 issue of Rotman, the magazine for the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto.

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Bill Moggridge has the incredible honor of leading the Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum in New York as the museum’s newest director. He replaces Acting Director Caroline Baumann, who stepped in after the departure of Paul Warwick Thompson last summer.

Last year, Moggridge was given the Cooper Hewitt’s Lifetime Achievement award, presented by First Lady Michelle Obama. Read about the award here.

By Paul Bennett

Paul Bennett’s article in London’s Financial Times, “The Biggest Idea Might be Learning to Think Small,” highlights his recent trip to Bangladesh, where he met Nobel Peace Prize recipient Muhammad Yunus. While in India, Paul learned from the Grameen organization, its micro-financing banking system, and its collaboration with global French food group, Danone.

Read the article here or find it in the Business Life section of the Financial Times’s print version.

Italian magazine Ottagono interviews IDEO’s Dario Buzzini on interaction design in “Il Progetto Dell’Interazione.”

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