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Monthly Archives: May 2007

links for 2007-05-30

Design That Solves Problems for the World’s Poor – New York Times (tags: design inspiration socialentrepreneur poverty BoP) Design For the Other 90% | Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum (tags: design sustainability development education exhibition BoP)

Design that Solves Problems for the World’s Poor

Bask in this glory:  A friend and colleague of mine at ID just sent me the NY Times’s most popular article for today, May 29, 2007, aptly titled: “Design that Solves Problems for the World’s Poor“ Nice! It references the Cooper Hewitt (which I visited earlier this year), Martin Fischer’s Kickstart, and has a small [...]

links for 2007-05-25

Vitaly Friedman’s Notebook: List of nifty tools for drawing diagrams, charts and flow-charts (tags: tools design charts illustrator graph)

On our way to the greenest city!

New recycling bins in Bucktown Mayor Richard Daley of Chicago announced that he wanted to make Chicago the Greenest city ever. It would appear that lately, steps have been taken to actually make this a possibility. For instance, recently our street (and many other streets in our neighborhood of Bucktown have been getting these beautiful [...]

links for 2007-05-24

McKinsey & Company – The ’Bird of Gold’: The Rise of India’s Consumer Market – May 2007 (tags: india economics business McKinsey) » 34 Places to Get Design Inspiration – Online and Off (tags: design inspiration) Hack Attack: Automatically upload a folder’s photos to Flickr – Lifehacker (tags: flickr python photos)