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Muñoz 20/20
New Kind partner Matthew Muñoz participated in the AIGA tradition of 20/20 at this year's Make/Think Design Conference in Memphis.
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Burney Recognized As 2009 AIGA Fellow
New Kind partner David Burney was recently recognized as a 2009 Fellow by AIGA, the professional association for design. The celebration took place at the Design Legends Gala held last month at the Waldorf-Astoria in New York City.
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Putting Humans Back in Economics
The idea of community governance is getting a little more respect these days. Elinor Ostrom, a political scientist at Indiana University, won 1/2 of the Nobel Prize in economics this week.
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Look Who's Talking too...
I thought I would share a sample of the best quotes from Harvard Business Review's JULY/AUG 2009 edition. While these thoughts and research-based ideas may be new to the business world, they are not to the design world.
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Harvard Business Review and One Trend Designers Knew About
In the July/August issue of the Harvard Business Review, there’s an interesting article identifying “The 10 Trends You Have To Watch.” Honestly, I love the HBR, but these ‘trends’ do make me smile a bit.
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Look who's talking about design thinking and management
John Shook's new book, Managing To Learn, offers these important principles every innovative organization should learn from... 1. Almost always, the problem you face is different from the one you thought you were facing. 2. Most of us are so eager to find (and deliver) the solution to a problem that
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Regional design groups like New Kind collaborate, innovate
The influential design blog Core77 adds New Kind to a growing list of influential regional design groups building on the efforts of the U.S. National Design Policy Initiative (NDPI).
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Dark matters and tribal matters: Grams v Godin
What we should not underemphasize is Dr. Martin's call to the business leaders: Think. Become more like designers. In a world where innovative is truly strategic, creativity is an imperiative.
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Community building — branding, networked media and open sourcing
Old kinds of marketing are expensive and generate little real value. New kinds of marketing reduce costs. New kinds of marketing create innovative solutions while minimizing risk. They create authentic customer experiences. They build brand. New kinds of marketing kicks ass.
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Less fear and more determination
Design and design policy can make change and new ideas less scary.
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Kiss it. It'll stick better.
A few years ago while returning home from a trip to San Francisco I had a short lay over in the Salt Lake City airport. I browsed through the airport book store and picked up a copy of "Made To Stick." I had read some very positive reviews
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Just who exactly is Matt Muñoz?
"You can observe a lot by looking," Yogi Berra once said. You can look at Matt's work at http://www.designheals.com.