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Innovation & Design

Viewpoint: Jeneanne Rae

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A Ripe Time for Open Innovation

Recessions present a good opportunity to collaborate with others on finding, developing, and marketing new ideas

 

Viewpoint: Bill Buxton

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Why Risk Is Important

Entrepreneurs, like ice climbers, are often said to risk their necks. But there are ways to cut danger to sane levels—and some very good reasons to try

 

Featured Blog

Venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins has launched a $100 million iFund to fund applications for the iPhone platform. These investments could trigger a boom in startups designing apps just for the iPhone—and iPod Touch.

Bruce Nussbaum, NussbaumOnDesign

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Material Innovation

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Hydrology

A superthin coating means you can throw your leather jacket in the washer—and the drier

 

Debate Room

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Employers, Get Outta My Facebook

When considering job applicants, prospective employers have no business poking around their profiles on social networking sites. Pro or con?

 

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Hundreds of job openings with design-driven companies.

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Real World 2.0

In a new book, Here Comes Everybody, author and academic Clay Shirky argues the future is here; it's time to get on with it

Put a Patent on That Pleat

To thwart pirates, fashion designers are getting copyright and other legal protection for their clothes—then suing

How Hulu's Design Gets It Right

Hulu, a major coup for Hollywood's Web aspirations, is the latest offering successfully designed for the elusive Gen-Y youth market

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Innovation Index

The S&P/BusinessWeek Global Innovation Index tracks the performance of 25 of the world's most innovative public companies.

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IN YOUR FACE: APPLE'S DESIGN

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Reader Brian Simpson Writes:

"There's an Apple philosophy for the look and feel of its product that doesn't come from a committee. Processes and creativity are great tools but they still need direction."

 

Architecture

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Bringing in the Green

How the Merchandise Mart transformed itself from a relic into a certified energy-efficient marvel—and a model for other outdated buildings around the U.S.

 

Auto Design

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Lexus: Too Japanese for the Japanese

Why Toyota's luxury lineup is getting little traction at home—while German brands remain an obsession

 

Brand Equity

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HBO: From Hitmen to Hitless?

Inside the cable network's post-Sopranos plan to reclaim its reputation for edgy TV.

 

Game Room

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Morphing Video Games into Movies

Electronic Arts plans to make its games the basis for TV shows, books, Web sites—and the big screen