Do manufacturers ever open their own packaging?
My friend Aaron Oppenheimer has taught me a lot about the end-to-end product experience, for a consumer, through our conversations and his weekly blog postings. It’s…
The Obama Bargain
The only thing protecting the conservative black writer Shelby Steele from a witch hunt, after today’s excoriating opinion piece about Obama, is its appearance in the…
Three quick weekend recommendations
Two plays and a museum exhibit, in order of preference and urgency: “The Clean House” –a comedy at the Arsenal Center for the Arts, in Watertown.…
My dog is for sale
I love the custom manufacturing business models of Zazzle, GoodStorm and CafePress. They blend made-to-order JIT manufacturing with UGC, seemingly as effortlessly as ABC. Example: upload…
Super Tuesday
Going to the polling station always makes me happy. The obvious reasons are the same as everyone else’s: I am happy to live in a democracy…
First visit to IKEA
“Mom, I need a modern room.” I first heard those words about nine years ago when our oldest son was inhabiting the former baby nursery (think periwinkle…
Raymond Loewy: Father of American industrial design?
There’s a great exhibit at the National Heritage Museum in Lexington; “Raymond Loewy; Designs for a Consumer Culture.” It’s full of visual interest (it’d be a…
RightsAgent Launched.
I just registered this blog with RightsAgent. Cool. Great way to start aggregating everything I publish online into one place, and to control the re-publication and…
BusinessWeek and Fortune re-designs
Is it just me, or has the new BusinessWeek design suddenly made the publication look like it is nothing but advertorials? (New cover is on the…
Fresh thinking on the value of a Facebook profile
Very thoughtful post about the value of a Facebook profile, which goes beyond the surface statistical analysis. Tony does not reveal his last name, but I…
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