Design
Why you should fail often, in order to succeed sooner [VIDEO]
What do shopping trolleys, Free Willy and the mouse for the Apple Mac have in common? Well, it’s the stunning design process that IDEO used to design these, well sort of, every day items. Some people may have a need for an every day killer whale.
Fighting the fear of judgement. How to get back your creative mojo and change the world [VIDEO]
Remember the time that someone, be it a teacher, friend, classmate, parent or a complete random stranger, shattered your creative confidence. You were told your drawing looked nothing like a castle. Or maybe that your idea would never work. As an entrepreneur, you can face this situation often.
Thinking outside the bouquet: how to use a tulip as a fire extinguisher [VIDEO]
Don’t want to have one of those boring, cylindrical extinguishers in your kitchen in case of a fat fire? Well, someone extremely creative had a genius idea. Disguise it as an artificial tulip fridge magnet. Creative, ingenious, and well, very kitsch. Dare I say it? This might be the perfect Mother’s Day gift.
Why are so many things broken? And why doesn’t anyone fix them?
Have you ever seen a pointless sign? Or maybe tried to catch a taxi at an airport? Seth Godin is in fine form in this video, where he talks about his frustration with things that are broken.
99designs launches fancy new Australian site, as DesignCrowd triples revenue
99designs, the world’s largest design marketplace, has gone and got itself a localised website. The announcement comes snapping at the heels of its whopping $35 million first-round capital investment from Accel Partners – the fellas what invested in Facebook, Dropbox and Etsy — and the launch of local rival DesignCrowd.
Adam Long, 2011 Anthill 30under30 Up-and-Comer
As one of the driving forces behind Engineers Without Borders Australia, a humanitarian assistance organization, Adam Long was well-versed in the art of helping others. Now he’s striving to create a new buzz with a crowdsourcing venture that will bring designs to reality and to market.
New Australian T-shirt biz’s grand designs (How to build a tiny global operation. Don’t plan.)
New Australian online t-shirt biz, HelloFresco, wants to trim the tricky business of having to choose your own new clobber. Instead of hitting the shops whenever your clothes fail the sniff test, they’ll send you two new tees each month, because “less choice is fresh choice”. HelloFresco founder and tee-signer (thunk that word-play up all by ourselves, we did.) Jono Chatterton says the website is the end result of five years of designing and printing t-shirts for friends.
Freelancer.com eyes 99design’s crowdsourcing crown… with help from Kanye West?
Outsourcing big kahuna Freelancer.com has finally signaled its intent to muscle in on 99design’s graphic design crowdsourcing turf, stumping up US$20,000 in cash-money for creative types. Has Australia become the new global crowdsourcing hub?
Can you buy insurance for your ideas?
A company will generally not think twice about protecting its physical and tangible assets through insurance premiums. For example, premiums may be between 1% and 5% of the total cover for business insurance as can be seen by clicking here. However, when it comes to protecting a company’s intangible assets the same care, budget allocation [...]
Is theatre the future of retail?
For beer consumers, I imagine this innovation might be an enormous boon (personally, I’m a quantity over quality type of guy). However, I suspect that the real commercial advantage drawn from the Beer Vault might not be its capacity to expand beer drinkers’ palates and prevent wastage.
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