A Dialogue with Kiki van Eijk: Leading the New Generation of Dutch designers

Kiki van Eijk is one of the names that are leading the new generation of Dutch designers today. She graduated with honors from Design Academy Eindhoven. Currently, she is working on her own collection which is presented in galleries, museums and fairs worldwide, in London, Paris, New York, Milan, Cologne, Venice, Kuwait, Tokyo, Montreal, Rome, Amsterdam, Basel, Miami, Rotterdam, Brussels, Monaco, Moscow etc. Besides her own collection she works on projects for companies and institutions such as Studio delkoort Paris, Design Academy Eindhoven, SKITSCH, MOOOI, Ahrend, Royal Leerdam Crystal, BKKC,…

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Reinforcing Positive Thinking Can Morph a Pessimist to an Optimist: Behavior Analysis

Brain determines whether an individual is an optimist or pessimist by nature. It’s been quite some time experts were working on defining a set approach that establishes a person’s attitude towards life and lately Jason Moser from Michigan State University has been able to derive a ‘brain marker’ which is responsible for differentiating between positive minded people from negative minded individuals. 

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An Interview with Industrial Designer Ivan Luccion

Ivan Luccion is an industrial designer from Madison, Wisconsin Area. He has been recipient of the General Motors Fund Scholarship in Industrial Design from 2005 to 2007. As a child, he observed fondness to cars and their designs, which later in his life inspired him to go into the world of designing. Ivan’s current work includes designing cycling helmets and other cycling accessories for the Bontrager brand. He enjoys sketching as he feels it’s one of the most easiest and quickest medium to communicate an original idea. We asked him…

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Gamification is More Than Just Points & Badges: Lord of the Rings

Recently, I watched Lord of the Rings, second time of course but consciously with a different angle. This time, I translated Frodo Baggins journey in terms Gamification strategy. By introducing the gaming element in the movie, I discovered that the trilogy became all the more interesting and innovative so I thought of penning down my insights and if I’m wrong anywhere please free to rebut my point(s), I’d be of great help, thanks. Introduction to the world of Gamification: Task assigned Frodo Baggins is having a good time at his…

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Meet Dr Gideon Greenspan: Developer, Entrepreneur and Lecturer

Today, we’d like to present before you an interview of an amazing person and one of the inspiring entrepreneur, Dr Gideon Greenspan. He is the man behind many successful and of course profitable online ventures including Carbon Catalog, now part of Ecosystem Marketplace, Giga Alert, Magic Baby Names, Family Echo, Siteliner, Question2Answer, Web Sudoku, Copyscape a plagiarism search engine and Cloudlook. Currently he is working on a new idea related to bitcoin called Bitcoin Colors. He is PhD in Computer Science from the Technion and teaches software entrepreneurship to undergraduate…

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Interview: Clément Eloy, The Promising Star of French Design

After his Master’s in Engineering Design with Honors from the ISD Valenciennes, France, Clement Eloy decided to start his own firm. In 2008, he founded Feel Addicted, the global design agency in Lille, France. His firm deals with user experience and overall brand perception. Through its various services, like products, packaging, brand identity and creation of environment, Feel Addicted combines design to marketing in a comprehensive and personalized process. His list of awards includes Red Dot Design Award, and many of his designs have been showcased across countries like Belgium,…

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The Black Swan, The Impact of the Highly Improbable by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The book is quite enlightening in terms of conveying message as to how the world works. Things are not as easy as they appear to be. We are stuck in a complex web of randomness, which our mind is incapable of comprehending, a higher dimension so to say. Change by nature is erratic unlike constant, which we actually think it to be and such events are termed as Black Swans by Taleb. This book is an embodiment of idea, “what we don’t know is more important than what we know”…

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Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand

Atlas Shrugged is Ayn Rand’s magnum opus. Society where we are brought up determines our thought process and hence instills the foundations of rights and wrongs in our life. But there are people although very few in numbers who are not conditioned by the society. They have their own rules and dictate their life accordingly. They believe in doing their work and are not affected by what others have to say. And these are termed as ‘Prime Movers’. World cannot move ahead with prime movers yet it treats them cruelly.…

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An Interview With Efrat Gommeh From Israel: Devoted To Design

Today, we would like to introduce our readers with the highly talented and vivacious Efrat Gommeh, all the way from kibbutz Mishmarot, Israel. Efrat holds a master’s degree, cum laude, in Design Management. Along with that, she also gathered knowledge about Waste Management and strives to find design oriented solutions to the environment problem. She is passionate about leading processes, which create sustainable advantages to organizations. Her specialties include product development, research, design management, CAD and Visualization using Solidworks and 3ds Max. There’s still more to come from one of…

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Badmouthing Employers On Social Media: A Sign Of Harmony Imbalancement In Life

We are in a public space, internet or to be more specific, social media knows no such thing as ‘privacy’. ‘Groups’ as in Facebook or ‘circles’ as in Google Plus are nothing more than illusionary barriers which in the real sense are thwarting privacy. Levels of privacy are mirage, an illusionary fence of the social networks, a concept, which is very much clear with the Facebook account holders. If internet is a vast ocean then social networks are aquatic concorde jets, creating ripping effects while at the same time gliding…

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In Conversation With Journalist Turned Entrepreneur, Ershad Khandker

Working previously as Managing Editor at New Age and General Manager at Financial Express both leading newspapers of Bangladesh, Ershad Khandker is our latest interviewee. He has a prestigious portfolio, moving from the world of print media into the world of self-driven entrepreneurship, highlighting the need for entrepreneurs to work in tandem with others “by constantly being sensitive to their needs” and to create a world of new humanism is his mantra in life. Scroll down and take a dip into the mind of the ever encouraging and self-motivated individual,…

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Interview with Tommy Seilheimer Founder and CEO of Defcon13 Media

Lately, we got a chance of interviewing Tommy Seilheimer, the Founder and CEO of Defcon13 Media. An entrepreneur by nature he is curious about everything on the web and enjoys writing / discussing things on SEO, SMM, Web Design, WordPress, Marketing, Digital Media, Graphic Design, Videos, Sports, Food, Health, Videogames, Politics, Music, Apple, SciFi, Documentaries, North Korea and more. Tommy has been a brand strategy, marketing and WordPress design consultant for over 13 years. Skilled at analyzing market trends and customer needs to develop highly effective and targeted marketing campaigns.

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Sentiment Analytics Gives Wisdom Of The Crowd: Social Media

Immensity with which the social networks are growing is unprecedented in its own way. Facebook consists of roughly 1 billion users, twitter has 500 million users, LinkedIn has over 225 million users, Pinterest has more than 10 million users, Instagram uploads 5 millions images everyday and Google+ receives 5 billion +1’s daily. This is not enough, there are Asian networking sites boasting of more than 500 million users. For example, Qzone social networking website, which was created by Tencent in 2005, allows users to write blogs, keep diaries, send photos…

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Meet Daniel Becker, 2014 Nominee by German Design Council: An Interview

As an entrepreneur / designer heading his own eponymous firm in Berlin, Daniel Becker Design Studio, Daniel provides design and consulting services in the fields of industrial products, lighting and interior design as well as art-direction and strategic conception. Daniel Becker (born 1983) studied industrial design at Braunschweig University of Art. After graduating, he opened his own studio and was invited to show his work in several young design talent selections on major trade fairs. In 2013, he presented new products on the Milan Furniture Fair and is nominated for…

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