This is the next piece in our PATTERNS series, written by IDEO. Read more from the series here.
Social networks can breathe new life into old brands by enabling companies to build collaborative relationships with consumers like never before. But what's a corporate giant to do when no one wants to follow it on Twitter or be its friend on Facebook?
Web video, especially comedy, works best when it's fast, cheap, and out of control: You get some friends together, bash out a few sketches on digital video, and pray for the gods of YouTube to anoint you with viral fame. Or does it?
Every designer has a "client from hell" story, and thanks the appropriately named website Clients from Hell, we can all feel the pain -- and learn from it! And now the writers of the site are releasing their most rage-inducing anecdotes greatest hits as a cleverly designed hardcover book. To anyone who's ever sent email asking a designer to "make it look more like Apple," or (god forbid) work for free: abandon all hope, ye who enter here!
Inglewood, Inglewood: Finally up to some good? A couple of Gehry-office expats have concocted an ambitious master plan to turn a broad swath of this depressed California city of 112,000 into a foliage-covered, wind-powered, mass-transit, natural spring water-spewing eco oasis.
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We're suckers for clever iPad accessories as much as any other Apple freak, but frankly there's way too much of it out there.
What you're looking at here is about what you'd end up with if you threw a Molotov cocktail into a Design Within Reach showroom (don't get any ideas!). French designer Vincent Dubourg draws on traditional furniture-making techniques, like wood-bending and metal casting, to create exploding shelves! A collapsing console! A warping, melting staircase! Think of Dubourg as the Michael Bay of furniture design.
It's a common trope of the action-thriller: A secretive government agency is tracking someone using just their cell phone. But it's not just in movies. Every few seconds, your phone is looking for the nearest cell tower, and each time it connects, your phone company knows. Pull all that data together, and you have a comprehensive way of tracking cell phone subscribers. And one German politician did just that, suing his phone company to get all the data they had collected on him.
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