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.

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.

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.