Diary of a Social Venture Start-up

via: www.good.is

ramblings of ...a self-taught entrepreneur who is chronicling what it takes to launch a social venture.

There are many sections to this blog - all with very valuable information on what is involved in developing a social enterprise or venture. Though they are from a business perspective, YOU are uniquely positioned to know that Design - a.k.a. creative thinking - can inform and help you develop opportunities.

Check out this highly relevant reading for Stage 3 Semester 1 projects.

thebriefdvd... check it out

Via: www.thebriefdvd.com

This is a new DVD resource (release pending) - a new approach to showing how products are created. Four professional Industrial Designers were given the same Design Brief asking them to design a single cup coffee maker. All four Designers were videotaped as they worked, showing how they come up with their ideas and begin to realize them as a final product.

Check it out - there's a 15 minutes preview (available for a limited time) on their website (scroll down to the bottom).

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VOTE NOW! - Sue's plug for Design For Development's BAMBULANCE - An INDEX Award finalist - VOTE NOW!

Design For Development’s Bambulance Project is a finalist in the INDEX Awards. In addition to being up for the Community Award, the DFD Bambulance also has the opportunity to win the People’s Choice Award – through a system of online and in-person voting. Poll closes this Friday (28 Aug).

- Follow the link below to the Bambulance Project.
- Click on the pink “Vote For People’s Choice Award” button to help us win the People’s Choice Award! (You can also win a prize :) )
http://www.designtoimprovelife.dk/index.php?option=com_content_custom&view=article&id=127:bambulance-project&catid=10:finalists-2009&Itemid=223

The Bambulance Project was a final year student project - students at Emily Carr Institute in Vancouver - and look how far it's come! Check out the YouTube link to the making of the Bambulance.

DFD is a Canadian Charity that I (yes, Sue, your PD Lecturer) co-founded with Niki Dun in 2006. I'd really appreciate it if you could support us - and vote for the Bambulance. You can also check out DFD's twitter.

Grays Degree Show - Product Design 09

"design is thinking made visual"

Saul Bass

Degree Show 2009

Gray's School of Art

Robert Gordon University

Garthdee Road

Aberdeen

AB10 7QD

Sat 13th - Sun 14th : 10am - 5pm

Mon 15th - Fri 19th: 10

am - 8pm

Sat 20th: 10am - 5pm

The Product Design department is proud to present a selection of works from the graduating fourth year Bdes (Hons) Product Design students. The work ranges from shareware gardening to a hammock created from found jewelry and a Pop Art toaster to a modular education system for harnessing sustainable energy.

Congratulations to all the Students @ Grays School of Art.