Archive for the ‘Opinion’ Category

[awesomeness] is trying to build a better world

August 10th, 2010

So for the uniitiated, Saatchi and Saatchi created this competition called “The Impossible Brief” – aimed to look at different ways to solve the Israel-Palestine conflict. Their site is here; their facebook page is here.

And this is my entry:

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[awesomeness] is working with your heart

July 2nd, 2010

do you understand what your work means? do you understand what you’re doing? are you a product of your circumstance or are you a creator of it. welcome to design thinking 101.

Jon Kolko-Keynote: My Heart is in The Work from Interaction Design Association on Vimeo.

In 1900, Andrew Carnegie quietly declared that his “heart is in the work”. This talk will examine our ability to affect change at the intersection of experience, behavior, meaning, and culture, and will emphasize our responsibility to approach our work with philanthropic enthusiasm that would make Carnegie proud.

JON KOLKO-FROG DESIGN

Jon Kolko is an Associate Creative Director at frog design. He has extensive experience in the professional world of interaction design, working around complicated technological constraints in order to best solve the problems of Fortune 500 clients. His work has extended into the domains of consumer electronics, mobility, supply chain management, demand planning, and customer-relationship management, and he has worked with clients such as AT&T, HP, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Ford, IBM, Palm and other leaders of the Global 2000. The underlying theme of these problems and projects was the creation of a solution that was useful, usable and desirable. He is the author of the text Thoughts on Interaction Design published by Morgan Kaufmann, and he sits on the board of Directors for the IxDA>

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[awesomeness] is in harnessing the cognitive surplus

July 2nd, 2010

this is the century that the picture not only speaks a thousand words, but when each word also paints a thousand pictures. and it’s a good thing. insightful, brilliant, hilarious, as always.

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