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Kenan Samms
CHANGE   |  Comment

6 Steps to a Breakthrough

Get your scope right. Identify the area you will address. This will determine what is relevant and what is not as you move forward, untangling inter-dependent relationships. Identify your Most Valuable Players Now you are looking ...READ»

CarbonEmissions

Infographic of the Day: The G-20 Carbon Calculator

Tracking the carbon emissions, among G-20 countriesREAD»

Nook

Barnes & Noble's Nook: Beautiful but Plagiarized?

A competing firm cries foul over the Nook's color touchscreen. Did Barnes & Noble steal their idea?READ»

GOPbranding
POLITICS   |  5 comments

Branding the '09 Political Races, and Rebranding the Tainted Republican Image

Since it's election day, let's play an election-themed guessing game. Each of the following screen shots is from the Web site of a politician up for election today. Can you guess their party affiliations? Bob McDonnell, running for ...READ»

Weezer Snuggie: Greatest Rock 'N' Roll Marketing Since the ELO Hockey Puck

Weezer Snuggie: Greatest Rock 'N' Roll Marketing Since the ELO Hockey Puck

For $30, the blue Weezer Snuggie--$50 for the "Snuggie Safari"--comes with a copy of the band's new album, "Raditude."READ»

NewYorkWaterfront

MoMA Hosts Creative Lock-In to Save New York's Waterfronts

The museum is sponsoring a workshop aiming for new solutions for sheltering the city's threatened waterfront.READ»

TapeTies

Sound Smart, Look Sharp

Two designers team up for neckties made of recycled cassette tapes--sounds like a sharp-looking idea.READ»

TimesInnovation

A New Bible for Interactive Designers: 'The Times' Innovation Portfolio

The New York Times interactive group creates an online encyclopedia of all their stunning inventions. But what's the motive?READ»

Kenan Samms

Rage Feeds Rage: So Take A Bite Of Some Happy Pie

A while back I wrote about how angry America seems to be and how as business people, we need to make sure our products don’t wind up on the forefront of consumer rage. The piece got me thinking about another question – ...READ»

LOTR

Infographic of the Day: The Plot of Lord of the Rings

Randall Munroe's claim to fame is XKCD, a Web-comic devoted to geekery which has a rabid following. Today, he's scrapped the math jokes and dry wit for a massive infographic, illustrating all of the character interactions in Lord of ...READ»

Kenan Samms

An Interview with a Corporate Green Hero

Bonnie Nixon, HP's corporate sustainability director, drives major change and serves as a leader for us all.READ»

Full of Jobs, Boeing's Dreamliner Lands in S.C., Will It Ever Take Off Again?
BOEING   |  2 comments

Full of Jobs, Boeing's Dreamliner Lands in S.C., Will It Ever Take Off Again?

Significantly larger than a monarch or a moth, Boeing's super-sized aircraft is kicking up a wind that's felt across the country.READ»

76i84
INNOVATION   |  Comment

Tech & Innovation Spending Show Corporations Are Recovering

Despite cutting back on spending, big corporations actually expanded their R&D budgets by 5.7% in 2008, reports The New York Times. It's only half as much as the increase in 2007, but it hints that research spending is one of the ...READ»

Housefly

Banner Ads Attached to Houseflies Will Bug You

At a recent trade show, one German company affixed tiny banner ads to flies--which preceded to buzz all around the convention center.READ»

Gensler
GENSLER   |  Comment

Gensler Wins Award for Greenhouse/Hydrogen Generating Bridge

The architecture firm proposes a solar-powered greenhouse that would rest on abandoned train tracks in Chicago.READ»

BlueBeat Defiantly Selling Beatles, AC/DC, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin Right Now for Cheap
MUSIC   |  Comment

BlueBeat Defiantly Selling Beatles, AC/DC, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin Right Now for Cheap

Download site BlueBeat seems to have looked squarely in the eye of litigious record label legal eagles and various judges who've sided with them--then figuratively dropped trou and shot 'em a moon.READ»

The Car of the Future is Deep Orange
AUTOMOTIVE   |  Comment

The Car of the Future Is Deep Orange

With Deep Orange students, instructors and industry-types are getting together to take a vehicle from the white board to the road at Clemson University's International Center for Automotive Research.READ»

GlobalWarming

Infographic of the Day: What Seven Degrees Does to the Planet

It's hard to imagine the effects of massive warming, which is why British scientists produced this encyclopedic graphic.READ»

LexusLoom
LEXUS   |  Comment

Video: Lexus's Mind-Blowing Carbon-fiber Loom

There's only two machines in the world that can weave carbon-fiber like this.READ»

Kenan Samms
CHANGE   |  Comment

The Change Leader's MVPs

A select group of people brings any change initiative to life.  I call these people, the Most Valuable Players (MVPs). They are not always friends.  They do not always have clout, political power, or ...READ»

Communication Innovation in Action: Propelling Business Forward in Today’s Reinvention Economy

As the recession begins to slowly loosen its chokehold on the global economy, the Reinvention Economy pushes forward with a new-found urgency. Companies are delivering re-inventive programs and consumers are demanding them.READ»

GeniusRocket

Crowdsourcing: A One-Way Ticket to Blah

Agency types are betting that crowdsourcing will usher in a new type of advertising. They must be crazy.READ»

ITArt
ART   |  2 comments

Artist Matthias Manner Turns IT Junk Into IT Monsters

Manner's sculptures look like the misbegotten offspring of computer-junk and deep-sea crustaceans.READ»

BrainSofa

Infographic of the Day: This Is Your Brain on Design

The designer sat down for a brain scan, thought of comfort--and turned the resulting pattern into a sofa.READ»

A Camper for Even the Fussiest Design Dweeb

A Camper for Even the Fussiest Design Dweeb

Why leave the comforts of home, if you can camp in your very own Sydney Opera House?READ»

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