Museum day

Museum day, Free admission all day long. 

Enjoy free general admission for you and a guest to hundreds of museums and cultural venues nationwide.  Saturday, September 26, 2009

How?

Present the Museum Day admission card to receive free general admission at participating Museum Day locations. The admission card is available in the September 2009 issue of Smithsonian magazine or downloadable via this site.

From Smithsonian

Low Product

The context of "Low Product" : How designers can help articulate a new social language ?

New designs form our society today,  form a culture of consumption. People have desire, always tracing for the best , new things. But the resources of earth is limited, all the "green design" could only make this situation worst.

So the "no design" may be the real solution for that! 

From Core77

The Failed Promise of Innovation in the U.S.

During the past decade, innovation has stumbled. And that may help explain America's economic woes

It seems like design influence everything includes economy. New invention gave people hope, gave people a new path. Maybe all that affects people's mentality, affects the confidence toward the economy.

From BusinessWeek

New York Design Week 2009

Weather is getting warmer, more art activities are coming too. It's time to got out breath the air and look around the new stuff. 

From Core77

Mike Sheldrake's Cardboard Surfboard

from Core77

Another sustainable product. The cost must be very low and he must earn a fortune out of this.

Invention sometimes come from something you really like and enjoy doing. It's good to have passion.

Swap Websites for Graphic Designer

from GD90+

We are not alone! Designers now have so many idea resources websites to trade. It's like a big design team, people discuss and share their experience and thought. We all should have one, collect the idea from a ll around the world. 

Change is better than improve

From SethGodin's Blog

The next Google

Microsoft, home of the Zune, has just announced that they're going to launch Bing, a rebranding and reformatting of their search engine. So far, they've earmarked $100 million just for the marketing.

Bing, of course, stands for But It's Not Google.The problem, as far as I can tell, is that it is trying to be the next Google. And the challenge for Microsoft is that there already is a next Google. It's called Google.

Google is not seen as broken by many people, and a hundred million dollars trying to persuade us that it is, is money poorly spent. In times of change, the rule is this:

Don't try to be the 'next'. Instead, try to be the other, the changer, the new.

If Microsoft adds a few features and they prove popular, how long precisely will it take Google to mirror or even leapfrog those features?

With $100 million, you could build (or even buy) something remarkable. Something that spread online without benefit of a lot of yelling and shouting. Something that changes the game in a fundamental way. The internet works best when you build a network, not when you buy a brand. In fact, I can't think of one successful online brand that was built with cash.

Stupid strategy! I think people would like to seek for new thing instead of collect different versions of the copy.

There are so many social networking sites right now, they all have slightly different function or connection, attract different group of people or both. Maybe "Bing" could looking for another new service, break a new path.