Mobility Vision Integration Process

The Mobility Vision Integration Process (mVIP) investigates ways that expert designers can support and accelerate dialog about the future of sustainable mobility. These mVIP cards are an experimental tool that supports rapid future scenario development on the topic of sustainable mobility so that groups and individuals can quickly enter a dialog and brainstorm about possible outcomes, solutions and strategies. The deck contains 109 cards in 11 categories and is also available as an online brainstorming tool. Game and tool developed by the Art Center College of Design.

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Design skills

Although many designers are multi-disciplined, design is divided into different practices. This separation necessitates collaboration and interaction.

While we can use words, designers also use an array of additional tools in order to develop, communicate and implement their design ideas.

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FROM CENTRE POMPIDOU TO AIR MAX

Just found this video on youtube about the inspiration for Nike's revolutionary Air Max 1s (you know, the shoes with the air cushion you can see). Turns out, it all started with a trip to the art museum.

"When you sit down to design something--and it can be anything: a car, a toaster, a house, a tall building, a shoe--what you design is a culmination of everything you've seen and done in you life up to that point."

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NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC - GALLERY

Dive into the national geographic gallery, those of you looking for form or color inspiration are bound to find something. Making moodboards with the life in color series is a pleasure. [Ph: by Ingo Arndt]

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FLOKOON - FOTALIA APPLICATION

An(other) online visual search interface that represents search results for music, videos & images queries by a network-like diagram. results appear alongside related items, which can then be further refined.

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DOODLE: EASY SCHEDULING

Plan een activiteit zoals een vergadering, een zakenlunch, een conference call, een familiebijeenkomst, een filmavondje, of eender welke andere groepsactiviteit. Maak een keuze tussen films, menu's, reisbestemmingen, of tussen eender welke andere opties.

Hoe werkt Doodle?

1. Maak een peiling aan.

2. Stuur de link naar de peiling door naar de deelnemers.

3. Volg online hoe de deelnemers stemmen.

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CREATIVE COMMONS

Creative Commons provides free tools that let authors, scientists, artists, and educators easily mark their creative work with the freedoms they want it to carry. You can use CC to change your copyright terms from "All Rights Reserved" to "Some Rights Reserved."

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PLAY RETHINK - ECO DESIGN GAME

Have you ever wondered how to make everyday objects and services more environmentally and socially friendly?

Then you should 'play rethink' and join our network of creative individuals. You can register, upload and share your projects with the 'play rethink' network.

And if you've played rethink, you're a rethinker. This site will help you to:

* share and develop your ideas
* be inspired by other projects
* be featured in the 'project of the month' competition
* showcase your concepts to potential employers (coming soon!)

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WORDLE - TAGCLOUD TOOL

Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends.

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Nintendo DS Cooking Guide

Zoek en vind recepten op basis van het aantal calorieën, de specifieke kookmethode, de bereidingstijd en meer! Compleet met handige boodschappenlijstfunctie, rekenmachine en keukenklok, is Cooking Guide alles watje nodig hebt voor je culinaire creaties.

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IAF Method Database

This site is dedicated to providing managers, team leaders, and facilitators with online and face-to-face tools for creating, leading and following up group meetings.

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The Visual Dictionary

The Visual Dictionary is designed to help you find the right word at a glance. Filled with stunning illustrations labeled with accurate terminology in up to six languages, it is the ideal language-learning and vocabulary dictionary for use at school, at home or at work.

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VIEWZI - VISUAL SEARCH

An adaptive visual search website that is able to radically change in both appearance and function depending on the search term. Viewzi consists about 16 different views, including a “3D Photo Cloud”, “Album View”, "Celebrity Photo View" & a “Weather View”. each view draws results from different sources, ranging from Amazon to Weather.com.

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Creative Economy Report 2008

The Creative Economy Report 2008 is the first comprehensive study to present the United Nations perspective on this emerging topic. it presents a policy-oriented analysis intended to facilitate a better understanding of the key issues underlying the emerging creative economy at national and international levels.

The Report includes contributions and concerns from five United Nations organizations, namely UNCTAD, UNDP Special unit for South-South Cooperation, UNESCO, WIPO and the International Trade Centre (ITC), in a joint endeavour to enhance policy coherence and international action in this area.

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HOW IT FEELS TO HAVE A STROKE - JILL BOLTE

Neuroanatomist Jill Bolte Taylor had an opportunity few brain scientists would wish for: One morning, she realized she was having a massive stroke. As it happened -- as she felt her brain functions slip away one by one, speech, movement, understanding -- she studied and remembered every moment. This is a powerful story about how our brains define us and connect us to the world and to one another.

TAGGALAXY

a space galaxy like representation of the relationships between tags on flickr. the initial tag is illustrated as a star, surrounded by “planets” that represent the complementary tags. drilling down to that sphere creates another galaxy cluster centered with a star made from the combination of tags, & more orbiting planets. selected stars morph into a image collection globe.

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Yves Behar - Creating objects that tell stories

AN INTRODUCTION INTO VISUAL THINKING

EVERNOTE

Evernote allows you to easily capture information in any environment using whatever device or platform you find most convenient, and makes this information accessible and searchable at anytime, from anywhere.

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DOODLE

Plan online een activiteit… zoals een vergadering, een zakenlunch, een conference call, een familiebijeenkomst, een filmavondje, of eender welke andere groepsactiviteit.

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