Tippy Tap: Save Water, Save Lives

I found this video via World Water Day: Tip­py Tap keeps it sim­ple + saves water — Core77.

I love how sim­ple the solu­tion is. To learn more vis­it www.tippytap.org/.

Sir Ken Robinson + RSA Animate

This is a great visu­al­iza­tion of Sir Ken Robinson’s TED Talk from my pre­vi­ous post Bring on the Learn­ing Rev­o­lu­tion!

V720 Midterm Update

V720 Midterm Update from Sarah Tolz­mann on Vimeo.

A few weeks ago, I wrote a post titled How Do We Cre­ate Val­ue for the Design Com­mu­ni­ty? This was a ques­tion I was explor­ing at the start of this project in our Design Inno­va­tion Devel­op­ment and Mar­ket­ing Strate­gies class (aka V720). Our class also looked at cur­rent def­i­n­i­tions of design man­age­ment.

Now, we are at the mid­point of our class, and Sarah put togeth­er this love­ly video to show our progress and our direc­tion for the rest of the quar­ter.

Design Management Definitions

Why is it important for us to define what we do?

“For stu­dents, the chang­ing roles and chal­lenges of design mean there are new demands made on those want­i­ng to build careers in design and the cre­ative indus­tries. Design is inex­tri­ca­bly linked to the way in which soci­ety, the envi­ron­ment and busi­ness inter­act, and as a result today’s orga­ni­za­tions are approach­ing design in a more ‘man­aged’ way.In order to have a suc­cess­ful, long-term career in design, it is nec­es­sary to under­stand how and where design sits with­in a wider con­text, and how the true poten­tial of design can be exploit­ed, pro­fes­sion­al­ly man­aged and uti­lized as a tool for inno­va­tion and change.”

– Kathryn Best

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Idea Visualization: sketch vs. prototype

So far in all my class­es, pro­fes­sors have con­stant­ly said things like “just idea viz it up!” My inter­nal response was always some­thing like, “what the hell does that even mean?!”

So, here it is – my first group attempt at real­ly idea vizzing it up! Read More