IDEO designers produced a video with three concepts—Nelson, Coupland, and Alice—that provoke and inspire new thoughts about the future of reading. The Brian Lehrer show on NPR affiliate WNYC spoke with IDEO’s Duane Bray and Robert Lenne about the project. Listen to the interview here.

Others posts inspired by the video include: The Atlantic, Wired.com, The Guardian UK, Gizmodo, Fast Company‘s Co.Design, GOOD, Core77, Metropolis, Creativity, Brain Pickings and Mediabistro’s Unbeige.

Watch the video here and read more about the Future of the Book here.

WNYC’s The Brian Lehrer Show takes a look at the future of the book through three concepts — dubbed Nelson, Coupland, and Alice — that provoke listeners (and readers) to think about the future of the reading experience.
Listen to the interview with IDEO’s Robert Lenne and Duane Bray here.
Watch the video that inspired the talk here.

Wired.com’s GeekDad, Daniel Donahue, chooses the IDEO Toy Lab for his most recent post in a series that takes a closer look at app developers. He sits down with Adam Skaates to talk interaction design, designing for children, and Balloonimals.
Read the post here.

As part of a product showcase titled, “Still Kicking,” Metropolis talks about the Baby-Boomer-friendly features of the Peek: an easy-to-use interface as well as a high-contrast display, a full keyboard, and a convenient scroll wheel.

What’s the future of cities? The Financial Times takes a close look with a special report devoted to the topic. In “Living Space,” IDEO partner Fred Dust weighs in on what can be learned from the way people in low-income communities build their houses.

Fast Company takes a look at the oneness of brand and design at JetBlue, and mentions IDEO’s work on adding services that “customers, mainly the business travelers that JetBlue hopes to attract, are willing to pay for.”

Fast Company’s Co.Design, Design Taxi, Flowing Data, and Switched dig into the redesigned BBVA ATM. Click on the links to read more about features, interactions, and cash.

IDEO’s Tom Kelley is featured in the article “Up In The Air” in Brazil’s Top Magazine.

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Russell Maschmeyer interviews IDEO’s Iain Roberts and Ford’s Chief Interior Designer Gary Braddock on the MyFord Touch Driver Interface.
Read the article here.
Learn more about IDEO’s work on the MyFord Touch, click here.

IDEO’s Jessie Cutts and Active Philanthropy’s founder and managing partner, Felicitas von Peter published “No Bad Philanthropy?” in Alliance magazine, a leading publication in the field of social investment.

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Loved.by, one of HackFwd’s portfolio companies, launched a public beta yesterday. Lars Hinrichs started HackFwd earlier this year after tapping IDEO to help make his idea to reality.
Read the full article here.
Learn more about IDEO’s work with HackFwd here.

IDEA award-winning designs such as the EILEEN FISHER design strategy, 3G Microcell for AT&T and Western Digital My Book and My Passport external hard drives are featured in Innovation’s 2010 Yearbook of Design Excellence.

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IDEO and Hakuhodo’s Palette concept is on display at the 2010 Annual Design Review in New York. The exhibit, hosted by I.D. Magazine, is open to the public at the AIGA National Design Center until September 10. For more information, click here.

Learn more about the Palette concept here.

Sony and World Wildlife Fund (WWF) have launched Open Planet Ideas, an open-innovation challenge that invites people around the world to submit inspirations and concepts that help to solve the question “How can today’s technology address the environmental challenges we’re all facing?” The challenge is powered by OpenIDEO and leverages the growing OpenIDEO community to contribute ideas.

Core77’s Sara Jacobsen writes about the launch in “Introducing: Sony’s Open Planet Ideas.” Ariel Schwartz at “Design Giants Turn to the Crowd.”
Learn more about the launch of Open Planet Ideas here.