“Almost all innovative ideas appear obvious after the fact”

In this inspirational video, Frans Johansson, CEO and author of the book The Medici Effect talks about, and illustrates, the relentless trial-and-error of all great ideas. How it must all start from simple and small, and then going through the process of refining it over and over until it becomes great.

Refining through trial-and-error, the distinguishing character of greatest artists, scientists, entrepreneurs and innovators. This is a long video, but most definitely is worth the wait.

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(DRAFTFCB New Zealand was also responsible for the really creative WEEDS outdoor campaign done some years back. I’ll try to dig up some videos of the work and post it here soon.)

While in itself the idea isn’t new, and we’ve probably seen it a similar one before in the form of movie theatre mastheads, it’s the execution that makes it different and new. Enjoy.

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“Leadership is over-gloried… Being a first follower is an under-appreciated form of leadership. The first follower transforms a lone nut into a leader. If the leader is the flint, the first follower is the spark that makes the fire… There’s no movement without a first follower ”

I’ve always been a fan of Universal Everything since introduced by my then art director Nic. Inspirational. From small sized videos to large scale installations. Mind you, some of the works are interactive animations too.

Here it is some really cool works in their 2010 showreel.

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Ikea released a catalog in its U.K. iPhone app today withless-than-wowing content, a call for feedback and a curious threat to only hand down updates to users who download version 1.0.

While the app is little more than a portable, digital version of a paper catalog — users can only flick through pages of the 2010 catalog and pinch to zoom — the retailer and its “brand entertainment” agency, Cake, are asking for update suggestions via voicemail, Twitter and e-mail. But it looks like only people who download the app now will get to see new capabilities when they come through.

“There are plans to quickly improve and develop the app but only in conjunction with customers who choose to download it,” says a note on Cake’s YouTube channel, where the above demo video for the app is posted.

So far, tweeters appending the hashtag #ikeaappideas have suggested GPS navigation store maps, in-app commerce, info on new food menus at stores and augmented reality to put furniture in users’ homes.

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Certainly not new to the scene but new(ish) to a lot of you… maybe… Carsonified spends a week each year to work on one of their apps, and they do it semi-live so we can all follow along. One of the more interesting things I’ve followed in a while, truly. This is a twitter based app for finding like-minded people at an event. It seems pretty fun, i’ll have to try next time I catch a FOWA or FOWD. The design is very open feeling and the colors are very subdued. I like the solar system graphic behind the main posts on the home page and the mouse over action on each person’s pic is well done. The most intriguing part is the sing up, I like how it takes me through the steps without really realizing what i’m doing. Very cleverly done.

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As recently as the last decade, most of the media for public consumption were produced by professionals. Those days are over…. The question we all face now is how can we make best of this medium. Even though it means changing the way we’ve always done.

This is good watching, for those in a hurry, skip straight to 13:00 of the video and onwards.

“Adobe® Flash® Catalyst™ is a new professional interaction design tool for rapidly creating user interfaces without coding.”

This is the new tool for coolest presentation and Flash web building and for all the designers we can forget about the Power Point already! This is next amazing software from Adobe® for Flash.

Do check the demo video here to see the Adobe® Flash® Catalyst™ in action!

Volume B Store is located in Sao Paulo, Brazil designed by Marcio Kogan in 2006. The project was completed in Year 2007. Volume B Stor is the retail furniture store Vitra. read more about it at Archdaily

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