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In an ongoing quest for innovative creativity-business ventures, I was excited to come across an inspired one on a recent trip to New York City. The creators behind the Ace Hotel (above) put artists to work to create customized scenes for the rooms — 58 styles in total, by local and international artists. Not only [...]
Volkswagon has launched “The Fun Theory” — the thought that something as simple as fun is the easiest way to change people’s behaviour for the better. Above: The Piano Staircase The Piano Staircase is a little experiment that takes place in Stockholm, an attempt to get more people to take the stairs (advice we hear [...]
Happy New Year! It’s a new decade, and with that comes new predictions. I came across some good ones courtesy of @futurescape. Some ideas to consider: From Endless Innovation: Organizations will embrace Design Thinking. Women will play a more important role in re-defining traditional notions of work. Small business owners will become the new stars [...]
Above: Sculptor Matt Devine’s so creative “Hollywood Holiday” mid-century modern gingerbread house In December 2009, it was my pleasure to assist with the production of the 2009 Gingerbread Collective, hosted by Arclinea San Diego, a showroom featuring a beautiful collection of modern Italian kitchen designs. This charitable gingerbread house competition brought together over a dozen [...]
Design offers an opportunity to promote sustainability not only through materials chosen but also by understanding and creatively catering to the psychology of the audience. In this way, a designer can create a space that is uniquely functional and engaging — a place that is talked about, sought after, and therefore valuable — over a [...]
Sustainable architecture and design is emerging in San Diego, with S.K.I.N. Design Studio setting the bar high with a solid design sense and an innovative approach. With a portfolio featuring a diverse array of sustainable building and interior design projects and models, ranging from solar and geothermal powered residences to evolved hotel and urban residential [...]
The Balboa Park Cultural Partnership, the collective body that unites 24 museums and cultural institutions of Balboa Park, has initiated a visionary park-wide sustainability program, which takes advantage of the park’s potential to achieve efficiencies through shared resources. The program promotes sustainability to the community through speakers and educational workshops at the park’s venues. They [...]
With a demand for sustainability permeating nearly every industry, from architecture, to product design, to biotech, the field of biomimicry is becoming more popular than ever. Biomimicry is perhaps the ultimate strategy for sustainability… It reminds us that while humans may have what we consider ‘superior’ abilities, other organisms of nature have been around longer, [...]
Today was Day 1 of the 2009 Biomimicry Symposium at the San Diego Zoo. The nice thing about a biomimicry conference at the zoo is that among all of the lectures about the innovations that nature can inspire, nature is all around. And in the form of the hairy armadillo at that. The evening’s featured [...]