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…
Sep 17th
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…
Sep 17th
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…
Sep 14th
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…
Sep 14th
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…
Sep 5th
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”…
Sep 5th