Articles / Posted: June 29 2008
The Designers Accord
Valerie Casey talks to GOOD Magazine about The Designers Accord.
Read the article here.
Articles / Posted: June 24 2008
Yello Electricity Meter Featured in Spiegel
The IDEO-designed Yello Sparzähler electricity meter is featured in Spiegel Spezial.
Read the article here.
Articles / Posted: June 10 2008
Wee Generation Diaper Bag, Now Available
A new Cradle to Cradle-certifiable diaper bag, designed by IDEO, William McDonough, Seventh Generation, et al., is now available, with 100% of profits benefiting Healthy Child Healthy World.
Articles / Posted: June 1 2008
Design Thinking
Thinking like a designer can transform the way you develop products, services, processes—and even strategy.
Thomas Edison created the electric lightbulb and then wrapped an entire industry around it. The lightbulb is most often thought of as his signature invention, but Edison understood that the bulb was little more than a parlor trick without a system of electric power generation and transmission to make it truly useful. So he created that, too.
Join Tim Brown’s ongoing discussion at his blog Design Thinking.
Articles / Posted: June 24 2008
IDSA and BusinessWeek Magazine’s 2008 IDEA Awards
In 2008, IDEO topped the list of IDSA award winners, with seven IDEA awards. Winning designs ranged from sports equipment to packaging to industrial design.
Read the article here.
Read "Five Years of IDEA Winners: IDEO Tops the List of Award-Winning Design Firms" here.
IDEA Gold:
- Coasting Components and Bicycles from Shimano, Trek, Giant, and Raleigh in the Transportation category
IDEA Silver:
- HP Consumer Inkjet Design Language (Kiss 1) in the Design Strategy category
- Bloomberg Terminal concept in the Computer Equipment category
- RIDGID WTS2000L Wet Tile/Stone Saw in the Commercial & Industrial category
- Amore Pacific IOPE Renewing Skin Filler in the Packaging & Graphics category
IDEA Bronze:
- My Passport for Western Digital in the Computer Equipment category
- Airflow Tennis Racquet for HEAD in the Leisure & Recreation category
Articles / Posted: June 16 2008
Social Entrepreneurship podcast
In this Global Business podcast from the BBC, Peter Day speaks with Tim Brown and other participants from the 2008 Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship.
Articles / Posted: June 10 2008
2008 NeoCon Gold award for media:scape
IDEO's Media:Scape system of tech-enabled workspace furniture won a 2008 NeoCon Gold Award.
Articles / Posted: June 1 2008
IDEO Recognized in I.D. Magazine’s 2008 Annual Design Review
I.D. Magazine recognized two IDEO designs in the 2008 Annual Design Review.
"Preserve," a concept by Thomas Brisebras and Jennifer Leonard, received a design distinction, while "Getting Personal with Global Warming" got an honorable mention. Both concepts were part of a series of called Designs On—.
Visit the Designs On— website here.