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The crowdsourced pop-up club is one of a number of experimental design initiatives Heineken has been playing with lately. The brand also turned to the crowd recently to come up with a unique design...
Discover the Heineken concept club: The result of a year-long journey of 19 up and coming designers from 4 continents that co-created a visionary Heineken pop-up club, launched on April 17th during...
The design director for the 2008 Obama presidential campaign, Scott Thomas was an early pioneer on Kickstarter with his Designing Obama campaign. At a time when few crowdfunding programs had caught the public’s eye, and raising six-figure amounts through online pledges seemed just a pipe dream, he managed to pull in an impressive $84,613 for a historical book chronicling the art and design that helped propel Barack Obama into office.
Ross Dawson lists the following platforms and tools or examples that can be highly utilized for one's business: 1. Distributed innovation platforms (Innovation Exchange, Ideaken, Nine...
Idea Couture is an award-winning global strategic innovation, experience design, and customer insights firm with offices in San Francisco, Toronto and Shanghai. They partner with organizations to...
The library founders have wisely crowdsourced the concept to anyone who has ideas about what a digital library should look like. Such a challenge rivals an architectural design contest for the next...
TshirtOS is still in development since its prototype was expensive but the two co-creators are working on making this T-shirt available and affordable to the public, as long as the public wants it....
Using Jovoto, the Berlin-based creative crowd sourcing platform, a jury of architects, designers and hoteliers reviewed submissions from hundreds of architects and designers. A “grow, teach,...
The publishing industry is becoming increasingly digital as it transitions from a traditional model for producing books into a technology-augmented era where the very definition of books is being altered. The affordability, selection, and convenience associated with digital book production and sales have prompted major publishers to jump on new strategies to maintain profitability. Knowing how rapidly and significantly crowdsourcing is impacting all things digital, is there a role for the crowd to play that will change the publishing industry even further?
Examples of corporate crowdsourcing tactics are as follows: - ongoing CRM-focused initiatives like My Starbucks Idea and Dell IdeaStorm - Fiat’s futuristic urban car - the Fiat Mio FCC III...
A historic week for crowdsourcing as President Obama signed legal crowdfunding for equity into law, and there were plenty of new names suddenly jumping on the crowdfunding bandwagon it seemed. Here at Crowdsourcing.org, one of the veteran platforms on the global scene, Symbid, became one of the growing number of names to receive accreditation through the CAPS program, and also joins the CAPS council.
Of course, there was plenty of other big news this week that wasn't about the JOBS Act:
It is now possible to buy something pretty close to a Star Trek replicator for a few hundred dollars (or a few thousand if you don't want to play Scottie and build from a kit). The era of 3D printing is upon us, and if you listen to some of its devotees, it's going to change the world.
Part of the reason The Matrix burned such an indelible mark on the world’s imagination was because it seemed so plausible (apart from the moments when the script calls for Keanu Reeves to convey emotions other than confusion). How do we know that we’re not the subjects of some elaborate simulation?
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