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.

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.

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.

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.