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Jugaad is a Hindi word that loosely translates as ‘the gutsy art of overcoming harsh constraints by improvising an effective solution using limited resources.’ (via mossonrust) compare with “rasquache” and “MacGyver”. contrast with “wabe sabe”? oh, and “arte povera”…
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There’s this myth that designers aspire to be artists. No — designers aspire to be really great designers. Paola Antonelli, MoMA’s Senior Curator of Architecture and Design, echoes Bruno Munari at a recent TED salon titled “Design Is Everywhere.” Antonelli’s most recent book, Talk to Me: Design and the Communication between People and Objects, based on…
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But, oh, what could have been! Even Otellini betrayed a profound sense of disappointment over a decision he made about a then-unreleased product that became the iPhone. Shortly after winning Apple’s Mac business, he decided against doing what it took to be the chip in Apple’s paradigm-shifting product. “We ended up not winning it or…
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“What I told our guys is that we rode all the way up through here, but what we needed to do was very different to get to [a billion units]… You have to be able to build chips for $10 and sell a lot of them.” “This is what I had to draw to get…
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youmightfindyourself: FUCK COMMITTEES(I believe in lunatics) It’s about the struggle between individuals with jagged passion in their work and today’s faceless corporate committees, which claim to understand the needs of the mass audience, and are removing the idiosyncrasies, polishing the jags, creating a thought-free, passion-free, cultural mush that will not be hated nor loved by…
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rgr-pop: “[Blade Runner] does not take place in a spaceship or space station, but in a city, Los Angeles, in the year 2019, a step away from the development of contemporary society. The link between postmodernism and late capitalism is highlighted in the film’s representation of postindustrial decay. The future does not realize an idealized,…
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emergentfutures: Rodrigo Nino, CEO of Prodigy Network, spoke at PSFK CONFERENCE 2013 about building a crowd funded skyscraper in the city of Bogota, Colombia. Full Story: PSFK
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dropouthangoutspaceout: Table 1: Number of Industrial Robots 1980