Mind your context

Bumped into this in my reader yesterday. The story of course has nothing to do with Land Rover, but they had me fooled for a second, since there’s no text beside the title.

Reminds me of this very funny ad placement (click ’skip this ad’ after watching the video for a few seconds)

New design & First design post

The tagline of the blog is, after all, Design : Business : Technology.
Onitsuka has a very nice promo site for Onitsuka Tigers, madeofjapan. The shoe on the site consists of pics taken from japanese websites and acts as a portal to those sites. Furthermore, the shoe is built anew in different colors every time a [...]

It’s the experience

I’m sitting in Johto Cafe with my Toshiba laptop reading news. Opposite to me are three tech guys (apparently from HP) with their HP laptop doing somehing.
I have an Apple sticker on my laptop’s lid, over the Toshiba brand. A tech guy has an Apple sticker on his laptop’s lid, over the HP brand. It’s [...]

Mediajockeys wanted

An issue I’ve been discussing with Sami Salmenkivi in particular: with the overflow of news, articles, research, events, videos, fun stuff, cool stuff, etc. on the web, few people, especially those leading hectic business lifestyles, have the time or the resources to follow even the developments in their own field of work, let alone all [...]

Crowdsourcing Innovation Principles

Expanding on the listing on differences between closed and open innovation in Henry Chesborough’s great book, Open Innovation, I have listed below what I perceive to be the respective principles in innovation through crowdsourcing / collective customer collaboration.
The rightmost column in the listing below describes pure collective collaboration principles in relation to different aspects. [...]

The objectivity of the crowds

There’s an enlightening article on Wired magazine on how the digital crowds can be manipulated by enterprising parties to bias the collective judgement to their own favor. A great reminder that even with large populations, the objectivity of the system can and will be tampered with, especially if the issue is left without attention.