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Bike and Build
Better World By DesignIron Man 2 looks pretty great, it has all the elements of a cheesy story line with great special effects and awesome imaginary industrial design. It would be a lot of fun just being able to imagine and design something like what you see in the last 5 seconds of this trailer. Check it out
Speaking at Creative Kids
This is my final stop of my Asian pacific tour. I spoke at Creative Kids in Hong Kong this past friday. Creative Kids is the art program that I grew up going to, I first went to this program 18 years ago when I was 8 until I was about 15. In that 7 year period, I was given a chance to express my creativity and nurtured me as a designer. It was an honor to go back after 10 years to talk to the next generation of students and teachers about what I have been doing and talk about the value of creativity.
Taxing banks a little could raise hundreds of billions
This is an initiative started in the UK to tax Banks a fraction of a percent to raise hundreds of billions of pounds to sustain important public programs, fight poverty and climate change. The question is why haven’t we done this ages ago and allowed banks and big cooperation get away with taxes and now need billions of government aid to bail them out. Visit them here to support them
That goes to say, money isn’t everything.
A Brilliant (as in CRAZY) one take OK Go Video
I never looked forward to any music video as much as this new OK Go’s video. I have heard about the crazy contraptions that they had to build for this “Rube Goldberg” insanity, through a TEDster who went to BILL. (If you don’t know what BILL is, think of it as TED’s nemesis.) This video is amazingly brilliant and it comes with a few conversations and interviews from Mindshare and Syyn who helped create these videos.
Here are the interviews, conversations and the crazy minds who envision this crazy event.
This will be my 100 things to do before I die.
Behind Formula 1
With the increasing influence of the internet and social media, even formula one teams are hopping on the bandwagon, giving the fans an inside look into what happens behind the scene. New teams like Virgin Racing and US F1 are leveraging the power of the internet to help grow their fan base, like this video from US F1 documenting their very birth to designing and producing their first part.
The Power of Design
Using this diagram to sum it up, what I do and Big New Ideas does is to use strategy, design and story telling to bring a community together around ideas to help change the world. This is the power of design, this is what it can do and this is how it can change the world.