Is Soccer Innovative?
What business can learn from the greatest game on earth. If you look at the history of soccer for groundbreaking, "game-changing" innovations,...
Food Fight
An interview with author Jonathan Safran Foer about factory farms, vegetarianism, and Eating Animals. design mind on GOOD is a series exploring...
by Sam Martin
3 months ago
Think Outside the Suit
Open work policies and empowered self-expression are the keys to unlocking innovation in modern corporations. Did Johnny Damon really need to...
Zen and the Art of Design
Author David Sherwin travels to a Buddhist monastery in Japan to understand the work of a designer and where ideas come from.Listen to his...
3 months ago
Surf and the City
How riding a river wave in landlocked Munich can teach us about design.This morning I woke with a familiar sense of anticipation and...
4 months ago
Teach Design: Think Dumb
How designers are introducing the idea of “simple” to a group of high school students. “People who think that small (dumb) things don’t matter...
by clay odom
4 months ago
Why to Take a Sabbatical
A surprising amount of creative regeneration can be wrung from a getaway.design mind on GOOD is a series exploring the power of design by the...
4 months ago
What is Work?
Our jobs often interrupt our lives, but that’s not such a bad thing as long as we can get some life into the office.design mind on GOOD is a...
by Sam Martin
4 months ago
Mapping a Path to Better Health Care
"If our maps are wrong, our judgments will be wrong.” —Eamonn Kelly, author of Powerful Times: Rising to the Challenge of Our Uncertain...
by Jason Severs
4 months ago
The Next Generation of Microfinance
design mind on GOOD is a series exploring the power of design by the editors of design mind magazine. In the United States and other western...
5 months ago
Re-imagining the Postal Service
design mind on GOOD is a series exploring the power of design by the editors of design mind magazine. You may have heard that the U.S. Postal...
Teach Design: The Importance of Failure
Ongoing investigations into a project that brings design to a local high school in Austin. design mind on GOOD is a series exploring the power of...
by Rob Stokes
5 months ago
Using Social Networks for Social Good
How Clay Shirky and information sharing can lead to significant changes. design mind on GOOD is a series exploring the power of design by the...
5 months ago
Ten More Steps to Becoming the Designer You Want to Be
An open letter to the next generation of designers, part II. design mind on GOOD is a series exploring the power of design by the editors of...
6 months ago
Obsessive-Compulsive Design Disorder
Some designers are crazy about their work. They’re also persistent and motivated. design mind on GOOD is a series exploring the power of design...
by Eric Wicks
6 months ago
Ten Steps to Becoming the Designer You Want to Be
An open letter to the next generation of designers, part 1.
Everyone has moments in their career when they look back and think, “If I had only...
6 months ago
Design Action: Streamlining the Grocery List
Using a pro-style step-by-step design methodology to make dinner. “Autonomy and freedom of choice are critical to our well being, and choice is...
by Jason Severs
6 months ago
Guilt for Dinner
design mind on GOOD is a series exploring the power of design by the editors of design mind magazine. This is the last installment in a...
6 months ago
