August 2010
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A Practical Guide to Designing with Data | Five... →
In recent years, the terms Visualization, Infographic and others have been bantered around with almost no regard to their use or meaning. There is a new vernacular emerging in the realms of data representations, but that doesn’t mean we can ignore the much simpler origins and best practices of charts and graphs.
Brian Suda takes you on a journey through the basics and makes it easy to produce...
OPENING CEREMONY - CHAIN BOOTIES | SSENSE →
hum, botim, botinha! Aniversário, natal. :)
Nouvelle Vague cantam Heróis do Mar, Madredeus e... →
Banda que se notabilizou a fazer versões de grupos da new wave e do pós-punk anglo-saxónicos vira-se agora para os anos 80 portugueses. Heróis do Mar, Madredeus e Rádio Macau são algumas das bandas que os Nouvelle Vague vão cantar no seu próximo disco, inspirado nos anos 80 portugueses. Em entrevista à Lusa, o mentor do grupo, Marc...
InWithFor » Blog Archive » The real design... →
How can we best solve social problems? This is the question behind what we do. Lately, design thinking has been offered up as one answer. And while authors like Tim Brown and Thomas Lockwood present the concept as a recent innovation, Horst Rittel and Melvin Weber, writing in the 1970s, unlock the concept so much more powerfully. They get at what it means to think about problems differently, not...
What is design management? →
What is design management? Simply put, design management is the business side of design. Design management encompasses the ongoing processes, business decisions, and strategies that enable innovation and create effectively-designed products, services, communications, environments, and brands that enhance our quality of life and provide organizational success.
Política Nacional de Design | Be Mad About Design →
No mundo actual a maior parte dos Estados ambiciona ter uma economia forte e competitiva a nível global, e também um tecido empresarial extremamente produtivo, criativo e inovador. Segundo Gisele Raulik-Murphy, senior researcher do University of Wales Institute, uma das formas que os países têm para atingir estes objectivos é investir num Sistema Nacional de Design.
E em Portugal? O nosso...
Princípios dos Designers (.pdf) →
No âmbito do Dia Europeu do Design, assinalado no passado dia 1 de Outubro, a Associação Portuguesa de Designers (APD) publicou online os Princípios de Conduta Profissional dos Designers.
via http://www.bemadaboutdesign.com/319/principios-dos-designers
Porto Abandonado →
Porquê investir em Design? | Be Mad About Design →
A finalidade de qualquer empresa é ter um posicionamento único e sustentável, através de um conjunto de orientações, a estratégia, que permitam alcançar esse objectivo. Por isso, é fundamental que a estratégia seja compreendida por todos os envolvidos.
http://www.bemadaboutdesign.com/763/porque-investir-em-design
DMI Conferences - DMI Design/Management Annual 35 →
This year’s DMI annual conference will look directly into the five major macro shifts (M5) we are facing, and how Design, with a capital D, can help in new value creation (nV). Hence the theme, M5+D=nV. Challenging indeed! The content will be inspired by Thomas Lockwood and two leading trend setters—David Butler, head of design for Coca-Cola and recently featured on the cover of Fast...
Jesus' Facebook Profile →
Hilarious!
Train your Business Brain →
In business there are numerous obstacles you must overcome to succeed. Training your brain is a good way to help boost your business skills and stay ahead of the competition. Our Business Brain Training games are designed as a fun way to get all of your skills working together and to get you thinking about what your own business attributes are. Test yourself with our fun and stimulating games and...
Watch:) grazie, Zé, grande companheiro das desgraças jornalísticas! :D
Quatro estratégias para promover a sua empresa na... →
Se não passou os últimos anos em Marte, você deve suspeitar que uma presença na internet é cada vez mais, muito mais que um logótipo, uma página de contactos e uma breve descrição dos seus produtos ou serviços. Neste post trataremos das quatro estratégias clássicas que ajudam as marcas a triunfar:
1. A estratégia dos motores de busca (ou dos agregadores de reputação).
2. A estratégia dos blogs.
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the four agreements, don miguel ruiz book - a code... →
agreement 1 |Be impeccable with your word
agreement 2 |Don’t take anything personally
agreement 3 |Don’t make assumptions
agreement 4 |Always do your best
Art of War: Sun Tzu Strategy Card Deck →
Set de Cartas a partir de “A Arte de Guerra” do Sun Tzu. Ideias a aprofundar! ;)
Pedro Garcia fashion designer: History and style |... →
A third-generation shoemaker, Pedro Garcia channels his family’s tradition of impeccable artisan craftsmanship into designs that conjure up a realm of experimental luxury. The explosive combination of contrasting materials always coalesce to produce shoes that are innovative, irrefutably high-end.
E eu a achar que este senhor era português.
– Marty Neumeier, Director of Transformation →
Liquid people. Smart. Nice. And really, really talented. The more you learn about Liquid, the more you’ll find that we’re a company of people from diverse backgrounds, with lots of different talents and a passion for doing great work.
Interactive Infographic of the World's Best... →
27 Blogs de diseño de españa | frogx.three →
El diseño grafico rompe fronteras y en la red existen un sin fin de blogs de diseño, a partir de ahora cada cierto tiempo vamos a ir recomendando algunos blogs de diseño que encontremos por ahí, llevándolos por cada país.
Primero vamos a empezar con blogs de españa, así que aquí les dejo los primero 27 blogs de diseño españoles, antes que nada aclarar que esta selección de blogs no fue...
Design Thinking: A Useful Myth - Core77 →
A powerful myth has arisen upon the land, a myth that permeates business, academia, and government. It is pervasive and persuasive. But although it is relatively harmless, it is false. The myth? That designers possess some mystical, creative thought process that places them above all others in their skills at creative, groundbreaking thought. This myth is nonsense, but like all myths, it has a...
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Empresa de design da Invicta.
Design thinking towards a new, more engaged... →
How to Be an Ideas Factory: Loosen Your Grip on... →
Last month Stewart and Mark Simmons, the author of Punk Marketing, published The Business Playground: Where Creativity and Commerce Collide, a guide to creativity and brainstorming that introduces the straight-laced world of business to an artist’s approach to innovation. I spoke with him recently about how to present an idea, why it’s better to relinquish control over your ideas, and how...
Magazine Covers | Art | Wallpaper* Magazine →
Visual SenseMaking for Leaders | Humantific →
Humantific will hold its first OPEN Visual SenseMaking for Leaders Workshop in October, 2008 in New York. Previously only available as part of the Complexity Navigation Program (seen in the photos above) this new condensed Introduction to Visual SenseMaking is designed as a one day session for business leaders who have to explain complex ideas, stories, strategies, products, services, change...
“Where art is primarily concerned with aesthetics, design is essentially a...”
– Design Council - Reasons
Reasons for a design brief
“Ten top tips for writing a design brief”
– Design Council - Top tips
Peter L Phillips’s top tips on writing a good design brief.
How to write a design brief | Resources and Events... →
This is a free guide for small businesses, public services and anyone commissioning a designer. Design briefs are an essential part of the design process. In fact, they mark the beginning of the design process, helping designers understand the business problem they are required to solve and businesses clarify what they need from a design project. Altogether they are vital to achieving an...
7 insights to make you a great designer →
Unfinished Business › Thinking about Design... →
collecta: Motoca, o tênis-pochete →
The Creative Bookstore (For Creative Individuals... →
Snog Pure Frozen Yogurt / You’ll never forget your... →
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