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One of my professors at the IIT Institute of Design who is a founder of Gravity Tank, and prodigy of product design has started a blog with his partner called “Foghorn: Sounding off on Innovation“. Chris is insightful and an exceptional facilitator of innovation workshops. As he mentions in his blog, I am really looking [...]
CasePlace.org, which provides teaching modules and case studies for various relevant industry topics has just released a teaching module called “Bottom of the Pyramid”. It contains three case studies that might be relevant if you’re an educator or just someone who is particularly interested in this space: Expanding the Playing Field: Nike’s World Shoe Project [...]
Today after K and I left work, we had dinner with two ID friends (Ying and Jun Jie) at a place called Shun Feng (the one on Huangpi Bei Lu). I had the brilliant idea of trying to walk there, because Huangpi Rd is literally right next to our office in Xintiandi. I just didn’t [...]
Finally! Vegetarian food. Originally uploaded by quami77 Here is a hint for the ‘su cai’ people that decide to come to Shanghai. There’s a place called the Jade Buddha temple that has a nice restaurant attached to it. We went to it, and it had a plethora of interesting dishes, some of which were faux [...]