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Beep! Beep! Who's got the keys to the....zero-emission car?
Posted by Rowland Hobbs on May 5 at 7:29 AM I'm obsessed with cars. As a kid I would memorize everything about them. I think it surprised my family, as my eyesight percluded my chances of driving. Nonetheless, I would sketch new dashboard designs, quiz car dealers on MPG and horsepower, and drive the rest of my family—who honestly didn’t care as much about cars—a bit crazy. So, it is with some childlike glee I can tell you about two new cars, and one concept car that are attempting to finally, truly decrease emissions.Topics: branding, design, green 1 Comment Read Full Post
Conde Nast Looks at the Best & Worst Green Companies
Posted by Duke Sherman on February 26 at 10:24 AM In the March issue of Portfolio, Conde Nast reports on the 11 best Green Companies and the 10 worst that should be doing more. Some are expected, some are surprising... Topics: branding, economic development, free write, green 0 Comments Read Full PostMetrics Round-up: 2008 so far...
Posted by Rowland Hobbs on February 25 at 5:53 PM Consumer decisions on sustainability; corporate investment in sustainability. Advertising clutter. DVR usage. Who really clicks on ads? Bloggers are a nice demographic, but not all the next generation is as online savvy as you think. Fine out more in the metrics round-up. Topics: advertising, branding, grassroots, green, interactive, public relations 3 Comments Read Full PostCan a cheap, open source, green computer take the market?
Posted by Rowland Hobbs on November 11 at 7:32 PM Wal-Mart has sold out of the under $200 (not including monitor) computer. It is green.... Topics: green, interactive 0 Comments Read Full PostGreenbuild: Notes from afar
Posted by Rowland Hobbs on November 10 at 7:40 PM A round-up of coverage from the largest Greenbuild trade show in Chicago. Topics: architecture and design, green 0 Comments Read Full PostRapid Prototyping for Architecture and the culture of "making things"
Posted by Rowland Hobbs on October 21 at 8:07 PM A truly fascinating read in this month's Harvard Design Magazine arguing for architecture to embrace more mass production and step away from custom design. I found the read exhilarating as it embraced some of today's intriguing ideas: rapid prototyping, 3D printing, and Building Information Management (BIM). I actually found the article through Tree Hugger which gets very excited about the idea of "printing buildings" which would much better control the use and removal of building products.... Topics: architecture and design, branding, design, green, interactive 1 Comment Read Full Post"Everywhere I go...
Posted by Rowland Hobbs on October 21 at 12:31 PM ...They ask about Subprime and climate change...." Topics: financial services, green 0 Comments Read Full PostThe Many Shades of Green
Posted by Rowland Hobbs on July 1 at 8:33 PM If you are not convinced of that, check out the story in the New York Times today. Front of the Sunday Style Section, it takes a stance that contrasts action that results in environmental change against the green lifestyle choices of many consumers.Now take the responses I’ve seen online right away..... Topics: green, public relations 0 Comments Read Full Post
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Social Media in Oil & Gas: A Snap ShotPOSTED BY Jason Warnock ON FEBRUARY 11 AT 2:00 PMWe asked DMD Insight Managing Partner, Gina Miller, to weigh in with her thoughts on the ongoing Social Media debate in the Energy sector. She has provided an interesting and often times detailed snap shot into the activity within the Oil and Gas producer market as well as the importance and underlining principals of a good Social Media campaign. .
- DMD insight BlogFinding Gems at the Armory Art ShowPOSTED BY Rebecca Goldberg ON MARCH 6 AT 12:21 PM
I am not an expert on art though I do have a fascination with it. The majority of my knowledge is rooted in its history, and as I do not have a place to put the pieces I admire, I had little experience attending a show of current (living) artists. My curiosity brought me to the Armory Art Show at Pier 92 and 94 on the west side of New York this weekend. For an art fair, it was surprisingly structured. There were aisles, informal booths, and it looked much more formal than I had imagined. I wanted gritty, arty, struggling but alas even art is a business it seems. .
- DMDxd BlogUnconferencePOSTED BY Jesse Poe ON FEBRUARY 12 AT 7:02 AM
Today’s UnConference was a smash hit. Hosted by DMD and Arne van Oosterom (Owner and Strategic Design Director at DesignThinkers, a strategic design agency based in Amsterdam, founder of WENOVSKI design thinkers network) at Parsons The New School for Design. A collection of 20 great cross-disciplinary thinkers from San Francisco to Finland and in between, met for 4 hours to discus solutions for urban design. The unconference started as a mummer, quickly raised to a rumble of fantastic ideas and thousands of possible directions for making world of design better. After an hour of this exciting fray of thinking, GK VanPatter (Co-Founder, HUMANTIFIC, CoFounder, at NextDesign Leadership Institute Founding Editor at NextD Journal), stepped in with his own brand of design, making sense of cross-disciplinary innovation. And make sense of it we did! Broken into 3 timed sessions we: discovered the issues we all had burning within us and were addressing in our own ways distilled them all down to the most potent and effectual problem to solve, the problem which when solved would begin to unravel the tensions around other problems and open them up for solving finally coming up with 50 possible solutions to that one issue Amazing day. Amazing minds. Amazing results that got at the heart of not just possible directions for making world of design better, but possibly making the design of our world better through better interactions. Look for more on this Unconference what we learned, what we can share, and what/when the next one will be!.