October 2011
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September 2011
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THOS - Intangible Luxury
Thos from tschagsalmaa Borchuu on Vimeo.
I believe there is no other culture as closely linked to horses as it is the case with Mongolians. And I am not talking historically. Tschagsalmaa Borchuu a young mongolian fashion design strategist who grew up and studied in the west transfers part of her cultural heritage into a new contemporary and culturally unbound context. A brand called...
August 2011
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(via swissmiss | Mapnificient)
July 2011
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December 2010
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November 2010
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2011 TED Prize winner →
MUST SEE…
October 2010
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My first studioblog concept here at designaffairs. Enjoy + spread the word!
September 2010
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Japanese Men Take Virtual Girlfriends on Real Date Nights
unbelievable…
August 2010
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July 2010
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Gesture-based computing on the cheap
more…
June 2010
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Juan Enriquez shares mindboggling science
…more then a year old, but still up to date
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Augmented Reality Trends Video
Nils Müller - “The future is illuminated”
If you crave for more!
Texture Desktop (by Hunter Sebresos)
Mobile Hapticons (by Hunter Sebresos)
and here is her talk -finally …had some troubles uploading
found this through Haiyan Zhang´s website, it´s a few months old, but Jesse Schell doesn´t just have a great story to tell, he´s also well, quite entertaining!
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“Thinking is Fun” - we knew that, didn´t we !?
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Dresden Future Forum
It was a whopping twelve hour ride I had to take from the Netherlands to Dresden. Naturally I was a little shaky when I stepped out the train, especially because I spend the biggest part of those twelve hours talking to some really nice Mexican-Americans that constantly kept buying me beer, -but that´s a whole different story.
First speaker at the Dresden Future was Ray...
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Holistic Management - A New Framework for Decision Making
Browsing through the finalists of the buckminster fuller institute prize I discovered Allan Savory Project. His method “counterintuitive” -but brilliant -check it out, it´s definitely worth it.
Allan Savory is a former wildlife biologist, farmer, and politician and a true pioneer in a field that he virtually created himself -...
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Systems Thinking: A Product Is More Than the... →
A product is actually a service. Although the designer, manufacturer, distributer, and seller may think it is a product, to the buyer, it offers a valuable service. The easiest example is the automatic teller machine (ATM), or as many people think of it, a cash dispenser. To the company that manufactures it as well as to the bank that purchases it, the ATM is a product. But to the customer, the...
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Natural User Interfaces are not Natural →
Gestural interaction is the new excitement in the halls of industry. Advances in the size, power, and cost of microprocessors, memory, cameras, and other sensing devices now make it possible to control by wipes and flicks, hand gestures, and body movements. A new world of interaction is here: The rulebooks and guidelines are being rewritten, or at least, such is the claim. And the new...
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