Websites, Blogs & Podcasts

TreeHugger - ecomatters

Compact Impact is poduct eye-candy from Japan.

MoCo Loco - Product eye-candy.

Wired magazine, in print and in all its manifestations online. We particularly like Geek Dad written by Chief editor Chris Anderson about adventures in technology with his children.

NextDesign is a source of discussions about innovation and design strategy.

Core77 runs a very active series of reports on design-related events.

Cool Hunting is always entertaining.

Noise Between Stations is another source of reflections and connections.

Bruce Nussbaum writes about innovation, design thinking and strategy for Businessweek, in the Innovation section and on his blog: NussbaumOnDesign, accessible via the Businessweek site.

Books, Magazines &
Other Publications

Cradle to Cradle by William McDonough and Michael Braungart. A book on Sustainability. A seminal and indispensable work

Everyday Engineering by Andrew Burroughs. A fascinating collection of photographs to show engineering principles in action from observation of ordinary objects.

Made to stick Chip and Dan Heath…highly recommended

The opposable mind by Roger Martin, Dean of the Rotman School of Business at the University of Toronto. Roger explores the use of what he calls Integrative thinking by successful business and enterprise leaders, going beyond the either/or of deductive logic to the better than both of abductive logic. Very illuminating. See also the other writings on the Rotman website.

Doors of Perception is a mine of useful stuff with extensive archives.

In the Bubble - Designing in a Complex World, by John Thackara, explores the connections between design, technology and business. It?s a good read and complements the international conferences, Doors and DoorsEast, which he is involved with in Bangalore and Amsterdam.

The Laws of Simplicity by John Maeda of MIT Medialab argues that technology should make our lives simpler, not the opposite. It?s a quick and simple read.

The Long Tail by Chris Anderson is about how the nature of retail economics has been fundamentally changed by new technology, particularly the Internet.

Thoughtless Acts by Jane Fulton Suri is an introduction to the way IDEO uses ethnography-derived design research methods to identify unmet product user needs/

Ten Faces of Innovation by Tom Kelley of Stanford D-School. See also the D-School website at dschool.stanford.edu

Designing Interactions by Bill Moggridge of IDEO and featuring Bill Verplank. A great book and very thick with an accompanying DVD but a lot of content is available for free on designinginteractions.com.

Fast Company explores the connections between design and business strategy.

Events, Exhibitions & Conferences

TED is a website centered around the TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) conference in Monterey every year, and as only 1,000 people are invited, costs $6000 to attend, and there is a two year waiting list, this is the only way most of us will see it, but they have a great archive of TED big ideas talks. TEDtalks are all available on free subscription via the iTunes Music store, podcasts section.