Bill Gates is talking about new ideas on reducing CO2 at TED
Some exploration with smart materials and interface design
Students in the Graphic Design Practicum class worked with Bayer MaterialScience to create interactive prototypes. Students included Brandon Bayer, Marcus Mullins, Jenny Shaddach, James Hovell, Sam Kojiro and Jake Zucker.
I do not have further infos, but you can see that there is a flexible textile in use. So I guess they use some sensor in it or below to that.
Sustainability by Design – Design4Sustainability
One of my friend has sen me this very nice link which leads you to a web page where you can find a very large tutorial to run Design project under the focus to achieve most sustainable results.
Design 4 Sustainability by UNEP & TUDelft
I like this very much as this is really a very large foundation for all kinds of design projects and sustainability perspective should become an ambient perspective in product design whether these projects are mend for third world or not. Have a look into their web page.
I reminded me a bit of IDEOs blueprint about Social Responsibility projects but this the UN blueprint works better for operational product design projects tangible or not.
IDEO + Social Media Week: Humanizing Social Media
Just found this very nice Online Conference with great insights about SocialMedia and SocialMedia Marketing. I should really work on something else but i cant stop listening to it. It is really good value.
Social Marketing is B2B
Jeff Bullas posted a Link towards a Blog with a survey about the target group SocialMedia is for. Link
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