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Method wants you to stop buying plastic soap bottles

The soap company’s new glass bottle is only available at SFMOMA (for now), but it’s making the point that shifting to refillable packaging is the future.

Where To Find Great Designers

The 13 Most Important Design Lessons Of 2013

From why designers should learn to code to how not to run a Kickstarter campaign, here’s a cheat sheet to being great at your job in 2014.

4 Business Leaders Changing The World Through Their Passion Projects

Sometimes businesses can make change themselves, but sometimes it just takes a business leader devoting a little time to make a difference.

11 Rules For Great UX Design, Adapted From An Original Mad Man

What does advertising giant David Ogilvy have to do with user experience? You’ll be surprised. Here, Method’s Ted Booth updates Ogilvy’s core campaign principles for the digital age.

8 Insights About The Coming Era Of Interactive Design

This 18-minute documentary talks to some of the brightest in the industry about what’s next.

Method Provides Evidence of Laundry Wizardry In Musical New Ad

“This laundry detergent ad will rock your face off!” –the 1970s

NBC’s New Election App Lets You Imagine Texas As A Blue State

But New York and California could go red!

Earn Your Media: The Mission Behind Method’s Madness

This year, Method ended its investment in traditional advertising to focus on social and digital, where the advantage shifts from companies with the most ad dollars to companies with the most compelling mission.

Method Has Fun In The Name Of Cleanliness

The new “Clean Happy” campaign subtly sells household products with one party of a music video.

The 20 Best Businesses For The World

According to B Lab, at least. After giving a rigorous assessment to its member companies, the organization that certifies triple-bottom-line businesses found that these had risen to the top.

If Your Company’s Culture Needs A Shot In The Arm, Do The Huddle

The 11 Best Innovation Essays We Published In 2011

Method, United By Blue Create A Supply Chain For Ocean Plastic

Method had the pie in the sky plan to take trash from the ocean and turn it into cleaner bottles–but where do you get all that plastic? From a company whose business model involves cleaning up the ocean.

6 Secrets To Branding, Ripped From “Raiders Of The Lost Ark”

What do “Raiders of the Lost Ark” and Ikea have in common? They both create overtures–opening sequences that communicate what comes next.

Method’s Plastic Madness: Ocean Trash To Detergent Bottles

There is a lot of plastic floating in the Pacific. Method can’t fix it all, but they’re combing beaches for garbage that might soon end up on supermarket shelves.

A New App Delivers Dog Photos When You Need A Dose Of Cute

Woof!

Infographic Of The Day: What Do People Want From A Tablet Computer?

The typical way to figure out what consumers want is to go out and do a survey. Or stay in and conduct focus groups. But Method, the design and branding agency, set out to do something a bit more interested when Dell commissioned them to research the tablet market. Instead of a survey, they mined Google to figure out what people were searching for.

Creating Amazing Customer Experiences Through “Soft” Innovation