Now that the site is a year old, thought I’d revisit a few of my favorite posts…

With Earth Day approaching, it seemed a good time to revisit a conversation with science writer, innovation consultant, conservationist and self-proclaimed nature nerd, Janine Benyus –the author of Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature, a book …

Several years ago, Fritz Haeg got to wondering why people devote so much acreage and energy to something as unnecessary and uninteresting as a front lawn. His book “Edible Estates” has started a movement.

People seem to be quite taken with a Japanese music video produced for the band Sour. It was created on a budget of $0 (talk about embracing constraints). The creators called on the band’s fans to collaborate in the making of the video, via webcams.

Martin Rayala believes that kids should be taught about design at a very early age. “The world is going to need more and more people with the skills to identify problems, visualize solutions, and then start prototyping and implementing those ideas.”

There’s an interesting memo that has been circulating on the Web recently, written a couple of years ago by David Mamet to the creative team working on a since-cancelled TV series called The Unit. It’s …

Continuing our tradition of featuring one of our favorite companies, Lego (see earlier posts "When Everything Just Clicks" and "Lego Plays Well with Grown-ups"), just thought I'd share this item from the Inhabitat.com site. The …

Jane Fulton Suri, a trained psychologist now working at IDEO, ended up in the design world by accident, though more precisely it was due to a series of accidents.

“If we are able to design our lives,” Richard Saul Wurman has written, “wouldn’t the best result—the best measure of success ultimately—be that every day is interesting?”

This week, Forbes CMO has posted a guest column in which I make the case that today's marketing campaigns are becoming complex design projects—which means that marketers should be applying some of the same approaches …

When optimism consists of no more than happy-face buttons and empty words, it may not amount to much. But designers tend to mix optimism with ideas and action, and that blend can be a fuel for progress.

Nice slideshow in New York magazine about the George Lois Esquire covers, in advance of a new book that will feature the best of Lois' work with the magazine. I featured George Lois as one …

Current conventional wisdom is that open floor plans = more creativity. But is it possible that without the help of old-fashioned walls and doors, we’ll have a harder time corralling and capturing ideas?

The times we’re living in are causing us to look around for better ways of doing things. But we need some basic tools to help us do all of that. Design principles can serve as the Swiss Army knife of the “let’s-make-a-smarter-world” movement.

We're big fans of LEGO here at GlimmerSite (see this previous post) and this short film produced by the company is really inspirational. It's called "LEGO CLICK" and it celebrates the moment in our minds …

They were huge. And cumbersome. And they really, really hurt. This is the story of Torgo’s knees…