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elbulli – part 3

Posted by: Scott Friedmann, at 7:23 pm on February 28, 2010

PART 3 of 4 Months after eating at El Bulli my thoughts and perspectives on the meal are still changing: Certain taste memories are extremely vivid and seem to get stronger, others are bizarrely still changing. It has also been fascinating to compare and contrast my experience there with other innovative...

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Art and Culture, Social Change

The Charter for Compassion

Posted by: John Lally, at 10:31 am on November 13, 2009

Karen Armstrong won the TED Prize on February 28, 2008, and made a wish: for help creating, launching and propagating a Charter for Compassion.  Since that day, thousands of people have contributed to the process and yesterday, the Charter was unveiled to the world. The Charter for Compassion is a cooperative...

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Art and Culture

US Interstate Map Meets the London Underground

Posted by: John Lally, at 4:31 pm on November 12, 2009
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In an age where we have Google and Microsoft mapping technology available that allows us to see such voyeuristic details as the front door of a building or a bird’s eye view of a celebrity’s backyard, it’s sometimes refreshing to look at a road map with a different lens, one that only...

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Art and Culture

“Elegant” Is Often Use For High  Design. But What Does It Mean For Engineering, Interface Or Business Models?

Posted by: Idris Mootee, at 11:40 am on October 19, 2009

El·e·gant, an adjective and define or characterized by or exhibiting refined, tasteful beauty of manner, form, or style. Marc Jacob? Chanel? Jil Sander? Hermes? All are unquestionably elegant by design in the fashion world. How about Amazon Kindle? Apple iPhone? Blackberry?  Are they elegant? Is elegant...

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Google Street View: Initial Thoughts

Posted by: Adam Rubin, at 11:56 am on October 8, 2009

Don’t freak out, privacy doesn’t really exist anyways. When Google began its operations to archive and organize the web, it used the assumption that if you put something online, then you want it indexed. Opting out is your burden. This policy extends across most of its services; if there’s...

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Ubicomp And Our Changing Behaviour

Posted by: Patrick Glinski, at 11:34 am on October 8, 2009

Ubiquitous computing technology may sound like science fiction, but it has already found a role in our lives.

Ubicomp, (or ubiquitous computing) is a term that describes how computing devices will become invisible to the user as they gradually find a use and a home in all objects. For anyone who works in the technology space, the idea of ubicomp is incredible, inevitable, and the next evolutionary step for society....

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Art and Culture, Articles, Podcast

Noodlecast: The Official Idea Couture Podcast

Posted by: Adam Rubin, at 9:06 am on October 2, 2009

We’d like to invite you to our new online endeavor: Noodlecast. From time to time we’ll upload a relatively brief conversation with you, discussing interesting ideas, products, services, technologies, memes, recipes and tactics to overthrow your government. Just kidding. But not really. We are just getting started here and we’re learning a lot. Your feedback and participation is wanted and welcome. Happy Noodlelistening.

Handy links: Brands in Public, Zeo Sleep Coach Brands in Public is a collection of interesting, accessible, public-facing dashboards for your favorite brands – from Zappos to Virgin America to In-n-Out Burger. Each dashboard organizes a hot list of what’s being said about the brand around the...

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Art and Culture, Experience Design

Smell Graffiti

Posted by: John Lally, at 8:00 am on September 30, 2009

San Francisco-based designer, Mitchell Heinrich has created a new form of street art using scent. Since early human cave wall painting, graffiti has remained largely unchanged as a medium.  The style, tools and purpose have evolved over the centuries, but still nobody has successfully broken free...

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Art and Culture

Wall Vinyl

Posted by: John Lally, at 2:52 pm on September 23, 2009

London-based Hu2 Design (http://www.hu2.com/index.php ) is an innovative company that creates and sells quirky die-cut wall stickers that are great for making temporary changes to a space since they’re made of low-tack adhesive vinyl that allow for simple installation and residue-free removal...

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The Most Innovative Meal on Earth: Dining   at El Bulli – Part 2

Posted by: Scott Friedmann, at 7:02 pm on September 22, 2009

After ten courses of snacks, 2 cocktails and an initial barrage of stimuli the core of the meal begins. Can I really last 25 more courses? Will each of the dishes be distinctive and thought provoking? Am I about to see the greatest show of culinary innovation the world has seen in the past half century? or longer? Is this the Cirque du Soleil of dining or a combination of creativity and hype fueled by a PR machine? What role has design thinking really played in the creation of the experience I have just started?

PART 2 of 4 This is the second in a four part series on my adventure ding at El Bulli. Before heading up the coast to Roses I spent some time in Barcelona exploring the Boqueria market. The market is the perfect place to understand the terroir of Catalonia and a major inspirational source for Ferran...

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