Announcing the 11 Winners of this Year’s JEC Innovation Awards Programme

JEC Composites is announcing the new winners of the JEC Innovation Awards Programme 2010.


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Inori: This Name Describes the Purpose of the Product

Setsu & Shinobu Ito has sent in their previews for the Milano Salone 2010. This is the Inori libreria componibile, which is created for FIAM Italia.

When naming a product or a service: you have the chance to directly give your user a certain emotion/experience. Rather than just choosing a name because it sound cool, the name has to be associated with the actual purpose of the product, and explain why it has been designed in a certain way.
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51 Ways to explode your creativity

"You cannot teach a man anything. You can only help him discover it within himself." - Galileo Galilei

Creativity is the ability to find solutions to problems differently and with added value. Creativity is thinking about perception, its using thought as a tool to be more fluid and flexible. The purpose of creativity is to change or to flow with change. Creativity is therefore heretic, it's disruptive, it changes assumptions, it kicks in doors, it faces fear and it destroys conformity.

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Mind Your Behaviour: Introducing Insights into 3XN’s Vision

By putting much focus on the experience of their architecture, and the way in which people behave, 3XN has developed a unique position in the Danish market, and are also growing into the international field. Now they have set out an exhibit called MIND YOUR BEHAVIOUR , it opens February 12 at the Danish Architecture Centre and will be on display until May 13 2010.


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Discover the Strategy behind the D-Void Towers

The Reuben Street Apartments project uses a strategy of an articulated landscape of 1-2 stories with residential towers of 12+ stories. Envisioning this strategy into the surrounding void facilitates, the protection of the adjoining residential enclaves and the re-making of the urban node.


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10 things Sun Tzu can Teach You about Creative Strategy

Sun Tzu was a Chinese military general and is foremost known as a strategist who authored The Art of War (around 500BC), an ancient book on military strategy. His principles have been used for war by many legendary warriors, including Japanese Samurai Oda Nobunaga and French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte. His principles are today also used by many business strategists.


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The Possibilities You can Discover in Failure

It seems as we’re constantly fleeing from making mistakes. Every step and movement we make should go as planned. This kind of thinking applies that we have to know it all, see through the future with laser eyes as our guidance. However, the problem with this type of thinking is that we simply don’t know how every planned step will have its way, we purely have to take a risk: the risk of failing.


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51 Ways to explode your creativity

10 things Sun Tzu can Teach You about Creative Strategy

51 Aspects of Creative Strategy You Must Know!

7 Ways You can be a Good Leader

10 things Niccolò Machiavelli can Teach you about Creative Strategy

The Power of One Shot: Hirano Aichi

Catching daily life: Nobuyuki Kobayashi

Be bold and aim high

The Secret to Effectiveness

Vision, the power of anticipation

Rie Isono: Be Open, Ideas Come in Daily Life

Experimenting with the Nature of Performing Art: Buffer Space

Know Your Strength & Focus

Living a Creative Life: Fumie Shibata

The Way Architect Anna Nakamura Works

Great Architecture Begins with a Promise: Max Strang

Combining Visual Art & Music

Experimenting with Porosity

8 linked towers forming an urban experience

People Trust Your Vision: Keisuke Fujiwara

Follow the Entire Design Process of ASSAY OFFICE London

I Am The Problem

Casa Manifesto: 85 % of Recycled, Reused and Eco-friendly materials

Jeong- Eun Lee: Design requires Heart and Sweat

Bioclimatic & Modular Architecture: Infiniski’s lofts

SLEEPBOX- Comfortable Urban Infrastructure

The Berg, Urbanized Nature in Berlin

Kenneth Nilson: How one Shape can Develop into Numerous Designs

House-sized Apartments in Sunshine Beach

BIG Wins Competition for The World Village of Women Sports

Renaissance in Florence

51 Pieces from the Renaissance

Pascal Grasso

SHENZHEN INTERNATIONAL ENERGY MANSION

Slussen

Jung Myung Taek

Talia Radford

Marc Canadell’s Nightingale House

Water Lily

Ori Ben-Zvi