Doblin’s Larry Keeley examines the downfall of Kodak from a business thinking approach. He explains that focusing too heavily on Core Competencies led to good results in the short term, but effectively took them out of the digital photography market in the long term (despite knowing it would come). Keeley heads a warning to present day firms, encouraging them to think along a new path that, while not the solution, is a good way to avoid pitfalls like Kodak.

Convergences. Used well, it gives leaders a deeper sense of the interdependencies that connect firms, products, systems, and services in new ecosystems. It challenges the older notions of supply chains and vertical integration to get at newer ideas such as platforms, which move the cost and risk of innovating off your balance sheet and onto others’. It uses visualization techniques to reveal where new opportunity hotspots are emerging — typically the confluence of new technological capabilities and new customer behaviors.

http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2012/01/18/the-kodak-lie/

DMesh [Cinder, Mac]

“Motion Plus Design” is a project which aims to create an exhibition center dedicated to Motion Design World (in Paris, france)

(Source: motion-plus-design.com)

wearethemarket:

“The Keaton Music Typewriter was first patented in 1936 (14 keys) by Robert H. Keaton from San Francisco, California. Another patent was taken out in 1953 (33 keys) which included improvements to the machine. The machine types on a sheet of paper lying flat under the typing mechanism. There are several Keaton music typewriters thought to be in existence in museums and private collections. It was marketed in the 1950s and sold for around $225. The typewriter made it easier for publishers, educators, and other musicians to produce music copies in quantity. Composers, however, preferred to write the music out by hand.”

Dimensions takes important places, events and things, and overlays them onto a map of where you are.

Graphic novel written using invisible ink revealed with a UV light

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I started this blog exactly 6 years ago. Oh, how things change.

I graduated university, worked for the top design website in the world, travelled to four more continents and now I’m…

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Rorschmap is cartographic navel-gazing, a reframing of the map. It will not help you find anything. We are bored with your squares and your margins. 

Basic HTML and CSS for Non-Web Designers. Simple video tutorials that demystify writing for the Web.

Museum of Obsolete Objects is a collection of videos by Jung von Matt profiling obsolete technologies, preserving their operation and pitfalls for future generations. The site is actually hosted on youtube using a flash interface.