September 2009
6 posts
Mobile Banks in the Developing World Prove Simpler... →
Recent initiatives designed to make U.S. consumer financial products simpler and intelligible to customers, reminds me of a study we did on Mobile Banks in the developing world. Designed to…
Banks can learn from retailers →
It’s been a tough recession for retailers, although the better ones are emerging from it stronger relative to their peers than before the deluge. That’s obviously true of the big supermarket…
Design It: Shelter Competition public voting open →
On the occasion of the exhibitions Frank Lloyd Wright: From Within Outward and Learning By Doing, the Guggenheim and Google SketchUp invited amateur and professional designers from…
Design It: Shelter Competition public voting open →
On the occasion of the exhibitions Frank Lloyd Wright: From Within Outward and Learning By Doing, the Guggenheim and Google SketchUp invited amateur and professional designers from…
Interactive art in blackface →
Perhaps the most intriguing piece I’ve seen at Ars Electronica so far is called WIA<>WIA, “Water in Africa, Water in Austria”. On the surface, it’s a well-thought through piece of installation art…
Kristen Taylor, food pornographer →
Kristen Taylor is a food pornographer. She asks us not to tell her mother… though she’s just told a very full room at Ars Electronica in Linz. She’s the instigator today of a “food hacking”…