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Monthly Archives: December 2012

Up The Ante

So, I was going back and forth on writing on the subject of making money as a Designer.  Having a business background, it’s somewhat of…

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The Problem With a Single Story

  “The single story creates stereotypes, and the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete. They make one…

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Calculating Value

It seems like almost every product I buy these days has a green leaf, an Energy Star, or a recycle triangle stamped on it. If…

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Pruitt-Igoe: Asking the Wrong Questions

September 1945: another war was over, and St.Louis, a city like many others across the country, counted the costs. As life struggled to return to…

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How do you measure social innovation?

  Ezio Manzini defines social innovation as “a process of change emerging from the creative re-combination of existing assets (from social capital to historical heritage,…

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How to Survive Humanitarian Design

The blog post by Bruce Nussbaum threw a bomb into the crowd of designers, especially those who are dedicated to Humanitarian Design. If you do…

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Can I Design For My Complex World?

My first semester of TransD is coming to end and it has been quite a journey… I could not possibly write a list of what…

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The Slinky Factor

If John Thackara’s talk about space-time issues in In the Bubble got you weary, try this experiment, which makes visible the physical delay in the…

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REI

  The debate started by Burce Nussbaum seemed to have followed the path of most debates, where a question is posed, only to be attacked…

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Object Imagination

It’s iconic. A single piece of thick white paper, creased and folded into a pint-sized box, held together by a simple handle of slim metal…

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