N O U N : A design blog by Oliver Oike

Wired.com reports on Issey Miyake’s recent Kyoto Prize (more here). The official Miyake site offers a lot of interesting interactive pieces (esp. here). I previously noted some of Miyake’s timepiece design here.

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“onBeing is a project based on the simple notion that we should get to know one another a little better. What you’ll find here is a series of videos that takes you into the musings, passions, histories and quirks of all sorts of people. The essence of who they are, who we are.There will be [...]

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Whisper Brand aggregates several links about the GAP, which has suffered of late. It also highlights an article on Adrants about how the GAP might refresh its advertising. Some interesting ideas…

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Social enterprise is bustling, with interesting ideas launching everyday. Leading the way is the climate change industry. Al Gore got us up to speed with climate change last year (it was the The New Oxford American Dictionary’s Word of the Year for 2006), but it seems (at least so far) that 2007 is the year [...]

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