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Most Valuable Global Brands 2012 is published

Wed, 23 May 2012 18:37:17 +0200

Most Valuable Global Brands 2012 is published

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Mon, 30 Jan 2012 22:51:16 +0100

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12 trends for 2012

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 22:43:00 +0100

We are happy to share with you 12 Trends for 2012 in the area of media, communications and technology, written by Dan Calladine, Head of Media Futures, Aegis Media. These trends are grouped and clearly indicte the value and impact for brands in many filds.

Отношения заказчик-исполнитель в виде бытовых сценок

Thu, 01 Sep 2011 17:02:20 +0200

Отношения заказчик-исполнитель в виде бытовых сценок

Просто для наших друзей и клиентов.

Tue, 23 Nov 2010 23:07:26 +0100

Просто для наших друзей и клиентов.

100 inspirational ideas

Tue, 23 Nov 2010 00:21:00 +0100

Разработка под Windows Phone 7

Thu, 11 Nov 2010 00:31:00 +0100

Windows Phone 7 только запущен в Европе, Азии и США. Тем не менее, новейшей платформе уже предрекают большое будущее.

Возможно, более чем любая другая компания, Майкрософт отличается тем, что предоставляет разработчикам мириады информационных ресурсов и средств для реализации самых смелых идей. Тут, можно сказать, знаменитая речь Стива Баллмера “Developers, Developers, Developers” близка к реалиям.

Windows Phone 7 только вышел в свет, средства разработки развиваются. А всё таки, если вы знакомы с C#, .NET, Silverlight или WPF, начать построение приложений для Windows Phone 7 будет для вас достаточно просто.

Вот несколько мест, с которых вы сможете начать свой путь разработки приложений для Windows Phone 7:

Полезные ресурсы

App Hub — Портал корпорации Майкрософт для разработчиков Windows Phone 7 и Xbox 360. Он обеспечивает доступ к инструментам, форумам, блогам и документации от экспертов.
Getting Started with Windows Phone — Эта страница содержит ссылки на практические работы и видео о том, как начать работу по разработке для Windows Phone 7.
Silverlight for Windows Phone — Портал предлагает уроки по вопросам использования Silverlight для построения приложений Windows Phone 7.
XNA Framework 4.0 for Windows Phone — Этот учебный курс содержит уроки и видео для использования XNA Framework в построении игр под Windows Phone 7.
Программирование для Windows Phone 7, Charles Petzold [eng] – Электронная книга, бесплатно
31 Days of Windows Phone 7 – Увлекательное путешествие сквозь массу различных тем в области развития для платформы Windows Phone 7.
Шаблоны UI для Windows Phone 7

Фотоотчёт о том, как наш стартап DreamersDo участвует в...

Tue, 06 Jul 2010 10:00:01 +0200

Фотоотчёт о том, как наш стартап DreamersDo участвует в Enterprise 2.0 форуме в Милане

dreamersdo:

June 10, 2010 - Milan, Italy

DreamersDo participated at BarCamp seminar held within Enterprise 2.0 & Social Media International forum. Here we shared our approach to Community management and Customer engagement providing some examples from DreamersDo activity in social media communications.

Check out the photo from the event!

Innovation. The role of Design

Mon, 05 Jul 2010 21:09:01 +0200

Article repost from http://www.designcouncil.org.uk

Jonathan Salem-Baskin

Global Brand Strategist

Design, structure and purpose

Design is the order and sense that we impart on otherwise chaotic existence. Design is the structure that we as humans impose over what is… it’s the meaning we give to experience that in and of itself that might not have any meaning. Design is structure and purpose where maybe none exists naturally.

Roberto Verganti

Design, innovation and meaning

So, what is the function of design? Design has a very important connection to the innovation of product services and business models, and the way design can innovate things is by changing the meaning or making things more meaningful. Actually the definition of design comes from the Latin word which is designare, and designare means designate, so giving meaning to things. It’s not about the style, it’s not about the technology, it’s not about the functionalities. What is the meaning that people give to this product? And design is about the innovation of this meaning.

Paul Bennett

IDEO

Putting design at the heart of business strategy

Design is business and business is design. The two are absolutely intrinsically linked, in my opinion. I think that businesses that don’t understand fundamentally that department is not just about the decoration of something but it’s about the solution and it’s about the way to design forward and it is strategic, I don’t think that those are the businesses that are going to survive. I think businesses that fundamentally put design in the middle of their strategy and use design as a way to move forward are the businesses that, certainly the businesses that we work with and the businesses that I would encourage other people to work with.

Robin Bew

Design and radical business innovation

Well design is absolutely central to this, because of course while you can do things incrementally; actually really eliminating waste from your production process often means completely re-engineering the way that you do things. And that requires more than just a few tweaks here and there; often that means completely re-thinking the entire production process, in a way which is more efficient and more effective, and more suitable for a world in which resources are costly. So I think it does speak to the design imperative. You can be incremental, but if you’re really serious about making a big change to the business, well you have to think more big deal than that.

Jonathan Salem-Baskin

Design and customer expectation

In my broad definition of design it would be everything from how governments are structured and run to how products are built and offered, how religions are founded and experienced. The easy ones of course, the ones that come to mind are Apple and Harley Davidson, places where you have a tangible product that’s been designed, not just to meet customer expectations but in fact to anticipate them. There are a lot of examples in the hospitality industry, Four Seasons and Ritz Carlton did it somewhat similar, Virgin, Jet Blue in America are examples of it, but ultimately design is about giving people what they need whether or not they know they need it, and doing so in a way that makes them feel like they asked for it.

Nick Jankel

Design and open innovation

I work a lot in open innovation, which basically means opening up the boundaries of your business to ideas from all sorts of different directions. Designers can obviously be some of those people, but what I think actually designers could do if they want to make use of the opportunities over the next ten years is to think of themselves less as service providers, or producers actually, of stuff, you know, artwork, ultimately, and think much more about how they can use design as an ethos. Design thinking as it’s known is part of that, but the whole idea of a merger, co-creativity, it’s inherently design led, but it will need designers to move from the I’m the genius, I know best, I can tell a consumer what he wants before he wants it type mentality, and move to a I’ve got some skills, some talent, some vision, some exciting ideas, and working with real people in all different parts of the organisation, we can co-create something of true lasting value and beauty.

Roberto Verganti

Incremental or radical innovation?

It really depends on the type of innovation you’re aiming at. If you’re doing incremental innovation then the typical process of getting close to users, understanding how users give meaning to things is very useful. But if you’re targeting a more radical type of innovation, if you radically want to change the meaning of things like the Nintendo Wii, it’s a radical change of meaning, and then you actually have to step back from users. Because otherwise users pull you into the current meaning of things and you want to envision the meaning by working with interpreters, other people outside your company typically, that can help you to see the experience of how people give meaning to things from a different perspective.

Bonnie Dean

Design, culture change and risk

I think most companies, if you interviewed them after they had been through a design intervention would say that it brought a lot of intangible things that are harder to measure. And for many, it’s helped change their culture and it’s made it a more open culture, it’s made it more adventurous, and it’s made them understand how to assess risk differently in ways that the risks they choose to take, they have more chance of being commercially successful with those risks.

Jeff Denby

PACT

Making innovation happen

Design is absolutely core to what we do. It is not a value add piece. In fact, Yves Behar and his project are equity partners within the business, and so design is actually built into the corporate structure of PACT. It’s into our DNA. We cannot exist without considering design throughout all of our problem solving.

Paul Bennett

Design thinking and its role in innovation

A gentleman asked me recently what is the best innovative, the most innovative business you have seen in years and I always talk about the Aravind Eye Hospital in Madurai in India. Why it is, is because on paper it sounds insane. So, you know, if somebody said to you in a brainstorm I want to build the MacDonald’s of eye care, we would all laugh at them, and he did it. He built a franchise model around low cost cataract surgery for people in a country where cataracts are an absolutely huge issue. The theory is that everybody who can pay pays for two that cannot. He has done that by breaking every single piece of the chain down into its constituent parts and designing optimally the right idea. So whether it’s the product, whether it’s the service, whether it’s the nursing, whether it’s the facility, whether it’s the testing, every single piece has been designed to be the most efficient and the most empathic that it can be. And by the way, he’s making a load of money. And by the way, he’s helping a bunch of people.

I personally think we are at a really interesting moment in time. I think we are at a time, there’s a great phrase that I use a lot, it’s an Inuit proverb, which is the storm is the time to fish. I think the economic storm is still swirling over all of our heads, and I actually find that quite exhilarating. I think it’s a really good time to look at what you are doing, to look at how you are doing it, to sort of do stuff. I mean if you take the metaphor to its logical conclusion, the fish are under the surface and there’s a lot of really great ideas there to fish for. So to me, what I think we need in a time like this is action. So, you know, there’s a lot of discussion about design thinking. I think design thinking is fantastic, but I think we need to overlap design thinking with design doing, and this is about making stuff happen.

New pilot project in DanceSport

Thu, 24 Jun 2010 14:40:45 +0200

New pilot project in DanceSport:

Probably all of you missed new high quality, useful dance videos. LimeJam launches 2dance to make you aware of all events, fashion styles, seminars and competitions.

2dance team is located in Kiev, Ukraine. That is why first you will see more locally related content.

We plan 2dance.tv to be international and open to everyone.

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Tue, 08 Jun 2010 12:57:01 +0200

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Wed, 02 Jun 2010 00:24:00 +0200

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Logo Design Trends 2010

Sat, 15 May 2010 12:11:00 +0200

In his article Bill Gardner mentios that transparency in logo design has become a bona fide design tool, like type or color, not a trend. It’s too ubiquitous anymore to be considered a direction: It just is.

Also, brightness in hue has become pervasive, likely due to the public’s eye being thoroughly trained now for light-projected, on-screen color. We now live in a RGB, not a CMYK world.

Text is ever more important in identity design. Driven by the delinquent dollar, clients and designers are working hard to make identity messages more succinct and/or direct, and incorporating actual words into logos makes the message all the more immediate. Some logos are simply stuffed with information.

Use of color is even more unrestrained now—which is somewhat counterintuitive given the flu-ish economy. Rainbow-like color has moved out beyond any preexisting symbolism and is often used to represent the concept of full spectrum, more choices, or additional capabilities.

A highly encouraging trend is the emergence of innovative, fresh design emerging from Eastern Bloc countries. Designers there seem to have a freeness that some Western designers have lost: They are more prone to submit a whole range of dramatically different logo designs to a single client, approaching the same problem from many directions. All trials may not be successful, but the effort and exploration are there.

Scandinavian design has also seen a shift of late, to a lighter, fresher approach in design. The clean line and contemporary feel has always been there, but designers are moving past even these factors. There’s a real feeling of freedom and exploration here.

Which brandz are you?

Fri, 14 May 2010 22:20:00 +0200

MyBrandz lets you discover cool brands, share info about any brand and show off the things you own.

Tell us about your brands. Which brands are natively yours?

Поддерживаем LDS2010

Thu, 13 May 2010 12:52:00 +0200

Поддерживаем LDS2010:

LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT SEMINAR 2010

Второй год поддерживаем конференцию LDS Ukraine. В 2010 она становится международной.

LimeJam ответственен за создание имиджа конференции и её присутствие в интернет. Следите за новостями конференции на официальном сайте и в Twitter

Цели конференции

Совершенствование лидерских и профессиональных навыков студентов с последующим использованием этих навыков для решения проблем в корпоративном и социальном секторах.

Задачи конференции

Предоставление возможности студентам встретиться с представителями бизнеса;
Проведение интенсивной образовательной программы;
Совершенствование лидерских и профессиональных навыков студентов.

Дата проведения

С 14 по 18 июля 2010г

Interactive Projection Mapping

Mon, 10 May 2010 21:36:56 +0200

Interactive projection mapping for Nokia Ovi Maps Activation in Covent Garden, london, April 2010. Produced in one week using Afx and OFWs. The installation features custom optical flow, face tracking and some crazy complex arrow chess!

DreamersDo Brand Launch

Mon, 12 Apr 2010 00:05:00 +0200

DreamersDo Brand Launch:

The brand of DreamersDo was launched officially on April 7th, 2010 and presented via the landing page of the official website and main social networks like Facebook and Twitter. Consumers would be able to enjoy the service at the beginning of 2010 touristic season.

About the Company

DreamersDo was founded by an enthusiastic team of professionals with highly diversified background. Based in Milan, the company will bring to light destinations with strong cultural charisma, preserved natural beauty and uniqueness. In its first year the business will start with an exciting region in its motherland, Salento, Italy. The online portal is aimed at providing premium information for active travelers, offering the opportunity to experience different aspects of Salento.

Follow DreamersDo

Media contact

Ebru Savur (Milan, Italy): ebru [at] dreamersdo.travel

Download DreamersDo Brand Launch Press Release in PDF

DreamersDo Brand Launch [english]
Lancio del Brand DreamersDo [italiano]

What is systems thinking?

Sat, 03 Apr 2010 17:09:00 +0200

The discipline of systems thinking evolved from the field of systems dynamics and is both a set of tools and a new way of thinking involving new language. In systems thinking, we look at the whole system rather than trying to break it down into its individual parts; that is, we become expansive in our thinking rather than reductive. By looking at the whole, we are more capable of seeing interrelationships and patterns over time. We also begin to understand that the presenting problem may be symptomatic of deeper issues within the system, and so we start looking for the root causes. In doing so, we move away from assigning blame and focus on the desired outcomes.

Systems thinking is proactive and circular in nature, as opposed to linear thinking, which tends to be reactive. There are three key concepts of systems thinking: reinforcing feedback, balancing feedback, and delays. Reinforcing or amplifying feedback loops are what fuel growth or create decline in systems. They either spiral up or down, although they rarely occur in isolation. There are limits both to growth and decline. A simple example of a reinforcing loop is how an organization’s productivity can influence growth which, in turn, influences financial rewards which comes full circle to influence productivity. This loop can move in either a positive direction or a negative direction but ultimately stops at an outer limit.

Balancing or stabilizing feedback loops are those that attempt to maintain equilibrium. These systems are goal oriented and will do whatever is necessary to reach or maintain that goal. The previous example of driving a car is a balancing loop because the goal is to reach the desired destination. The driver will do what it takes to reach that destination in a safe and efficient manner. In organizations we are bumping up against a balancing loop when our attempts to make change only bring us back to where we started. We are encountering resistance to change because the existing system is attempting to maintain a particular goal. That goal, however, may not be obvious; we may find we need to uncover the mental models that are keeping that system in place before we have any hope of changing it.

To see more on systems thinking from LimeJam, please refer to systemic innovation seminars {in russian}: systemic innovation, sustainable development

Инфографика. Особенности визуальной коммуникации

Sat, 27 Mar 2010 09:33:00 +0100

Когда ты рассмотришь какой-нибудь орган спереди, с соответствующим нервом, сухожилием или веной, берущими начало на противоположной стороне, тогда тебе будет показан тот же орган сбоку или сзади, не иначе, как если бы этот орган находился у тебя в руках и ты поворачивал его в ту или другую сторону до тех пор, пока не получишь полного представления о том, что ты желал знать.

Леонардо, казалось бы, забывал, что он сам же превозносил художника (рисовальщика) за способность сразу, “в одно мгновение” показать целое в отличие от поэта и музыканта. Его замысел в отношении анатомических рисунков шел вразрез с подобной декларацией: здесь на сцену выступала именно та последовательность во времени, которую он считал неизбежным и неустранимым изъяном поэтических и музыкальных произведений. Сюита анатомических рисунков должна показывать орган последовательно со всех сторон, как если бы мы поворачивали его в своих руках. (W. Аи. I, 2, стр. 764-765)

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Most Valuable Global Brands 2012 is published

thedsgnblog: David Schwen | http://www.dschwen.com the design...

12 trends for 2012

Отношения заказчик-исполнитель в виде бытовых сценок

Просто для наших друзей и клиентов.

100 inspirational ideas

Разработка под Windows Phone 7

Полезные ресурсы

Фотоотчёт о том, как наш стартап DreamersDo участвует в...

Innovation. The role of Design

Jonathan Salem-Baskin

Global Brand Strategist

Design, structure and purpose

Roberto Verganti

Design, innovation and meaning

Paul Bennett

IDEO

Putting design at the heart of business strategy

Robin Bew

Design and radical business innovation

Jonathan Salem-Baskin

Design and customer expectation

Nick Jankel

Design and open innovation

Roberto Verganti

Incremental or radical innovation?

Bonnie Dean

Design, culture change and risk

Jeff Denby

PACT

Making innovation happen

Paul Bennett

Design thinking and its role in innovation

New pilot project in DanceSport

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Which brandz are you?

Поддерживаем LDS2010

LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT SEMINAR 2010

Цели конференции

Задачи конференции

Дата проведения

Interactive Projection Mapping

DreamersDo Brand Launch

About the Company

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Media contact

Download DreamersDo Brand Launch Press Release in PDF

What is systems thinking?

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