A celebrated proprietor of innovation skunk-works Applied Minds, Bran Ferren, explains how companies can cultivate the rare people who create miracles. Ferren spoke with strategy+business at the Applied Minds rapid prototyping facility in Burbank, Calif. The conversation cut to the heart of a key aspiration for many business leaders: fostering greatness, in the form of … [Read more…]
Seven beautiful new books on design, from the home to storefront and packaging. Source: Seven Beautiful New Books on Design – Cool Hunting
Great design means great products, which means great experiences for consumers, and great productivity for society. To maintain America’s lead in this field, it is critical that we continue to incentivize investment in great design by ensuring that our design protection laws remain strong. Source: America Doesn’t Do Enough to Protect Its Innovative Designs
Innovation is difficult, messy and, in contrast with our 140 character-limit world, requires sustained attention. Skipping serious learning is the equivalent of a new boat owner standing on the shore, jealously watching other vessels glide over the water, and asking, “Seems like a lot of effort to get our sail up, do we really need … [Read more…]
From Google to Hillary to Snoop Dogg’s pot candies, we look back on some of the year’s best branding. Source: A Look Back at the Year’s Freshest Logo Reboots | WIRED
To see what stood out this year, we polled some of our favorite designers, from the automotive world and beyond. Source: Behold the Best-Designed Cars of 2015
Hoverboards are the surprise hit of this holiday season. Meanwhile, the man with the best claim to have invented the technology, Shane Chen, is struggling to make money on his invention, after resorting to selling his rights to Razor with the hope that the larger company has adequate resources to successfully defend the IP rights … [Read more…]
How to get rid of plastic packaging? This outside-the-bottle idea is one wayif you don’t mind getting a little wet. Source: Ditch That Water Bottle And Drink Your Water Out Of An Edible Blob
Today, President Obama signed an executive order to make the Presidential Innovation Fellows Program a permanent facet of the federal government. The 12-month program, started in 2012, brings entrepreneurs, technologists, and other innovators into the fold of various issues facing the government and teams them up with government employees to devise solutions for those issues.The … [Read more…]
It could be the start of a new Sony — a company that’s trying to recalibrate its new product compass by throwing nascent ideas and projects to the public… and asking for money. Perhaps Sony’s most interesting move might be launching First Flight, its very own crowdfunding platform-slash-online store expressly for its employees’ pet projects. … [Read more…]