Debate: How to Brainstorm Effectively
In my recent post Susan Cain: The power of introverts, I mentioned that I agreed with Cain’s view on brainstorming — that it is beneficial to allow participants to brainstorm on their own before discussing ideas in a group setting. Then last week I came across more articles discussing the procedure of brainstorming.
Susan Cain: The power of introverts | Video on TED.com
Susan Cain: The power of introverts | Video on TED.com. As someone who would describe herself as naturally more introverted, I really love this video highlighting the power of introverts in a culture that tends to value extroversion. This video goes along with a long list of articles I’ve read over the past few months […]
Method Ocean Plastic Initiative
Method is known as an industry innovator with its eco-conscious line of household and personal care products. The company’s latest innovation in sustainable packaging is a bottle made out of plastic that washed up on beaches from the North Pacific Gyre, often referred to as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch or the Pacific Trash Vortex.
Designing A Difference: Part 2
Designing A Difference — Smallbean Part 2 on Vimeo Almost one year ago, I wrote about a collaboration between Design Museum Boston and Smallbean to develop the next generation of Smallbean’s solar suitcase in a post titled Designing A Difference: Smallbean’s Solar Suitcase. Here is phase two of the project, which focused on refining concepts […]
Facilitating Creative Thinking
Facilitating the Creation and Evaluation of Video Projects in Education Background We live in a media saturated society where media affects the way that we interact with and understand the world around us. While the concept of media literacy has been around since the early 20th century, its only in the past 10 years that […]
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 […]
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!
How Do We Create Value for the Design Community?
This is the question I am trying to answer this weekend. The Design Management program at SCAD is considering creating some type of publication. One of my class assignments is to figure out the best way for this to be done. I am very interested in how we can create value in the design community […]