Dominic Basulto
Digital Thinker, Electric Artists
Dominic Basulto is a digital thinker at Electric Artists in New York and a contributor to The Washington Post's [email protected] blog. He is working on a manuscript of a new book on innovation called "Endless Innovation, Most Beautiful and Most Wonderful."
n Vodafone Group’s user experience / concept development group has put together a brief video clip that explores the future of lifestreaming. There are some unique interactive visualizations in the […]
Here’s something that Deadheads could have told you 40 years ago — there’s a lot the Grateful Dead can teach you about running a business. In the March 2010 issue […]
In the era of the social Web — when it’s possible to tweet, blog or status update every miniscule fact of one’s life — it’s fashionable to opine that every […]
n This week’s op-ed piece (Microsoft’s Creative Destruction) in the New York Times from Dick Brass, a former Microsoft VP, was a wake up call for the tech world. In […]
n PSFK presents Future of Retail report View more presentations from PSFK. Ever wondered how product bar codes, new mobile applications and augmented reality will change the way we shop […]
In an article for the Wall Street Journal, Anjali Athavaley recently described why it is so hard to design an umbrella that won’t collapse or flip inside out. It’s not […]
Ever since the publication of The Rise of the Creative Class in 2002, Richard Florida has been at the forefront of the national debate about the role of the creative […]
Of late, I’ve been fascinated by the “back story” behind the creative process, especially with the factors that drive innovators to succeed with any creative project. With the re-release of […]
In a format reminiscent of PechaKucha 20 x 20 (20 PowerPoint slides in 20 minutes or less) events, Saatchi & Saatchi asked 7 of the world’s leading creative thinkers in […]
The 4th of July is as appropriate a time as any to reflect back on what makes America such a great nation of innovation. In many ways, it is the […]
In its June issue, Monocle surveys 20 to Watch: the most innovative brands and companies in the world that might just become “the Uniqlos and Hyatts of tomorrow.” These are […]
For the past six months, Lady Gaga has parlayed her amazing success in the music and entertainment world to become the unofficial poster child for creativity and innovation in the […]
n Interested in getting an early look at the breakthrough technologies of tomorrow? The Planet Green’s Dean of Invention show, featuring legendary inventor Dean Kamen, premieres Friday, October 22: “Dean […]
This Friday, GE and the Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum will be hosting an event in New York City to explore how design thinking can help solve some of the world’s greatest […]
Before leaving for Moscow this summer, I asked people – “What is the one place you’d visit in Moscow that best symbolizes how the city has changed over the past […]
As Steven Johnson explains in his animated book video for Where Good Ideas Come From, chance truly does favor the connected mind. We’re living in the great Age of Connectivity, […]
So much of what makes for a great innovator is not the ability to come up with a great idea — but, rather, the ability to “merchandise” that great idea […]
On the way to celebrating its 250th anniversary in 2014, the Hermitage museum in St. Petersburg (formerly the Winter Palace of the Russian czars) hired legendary architect Rem Koolhaas to […]
With the caveat that “it’s usually not a great idea to look for innovation tips in the storyline of television series, even award-winning ones,” H. James Wilson of the Harvard […]
In his bestselling business book The Medici Effect, Frans Johansson explained how and why great innovations often occur at the intersection of wildly different disciplines. One of the examples he […]
n The current cover of Newsweek – The Creativity Crisis in America – admittedly had me intrigued, especially given all the press that Newsweek has generated of late about a […]
n Why aren’t more publishers embracing the iPad as a disruptive platform? Out of the Top 20 highest-circulation magazines, only 6 have iPad apps of any kind — and, of […]
n Why do we love our digital devices? The answer might surprise you — it’s not because they look good, feel good or are somehow aspirational of where we want […]
n It’s almost a cliche these days to say that the Web is accelerating the move toward an attention-deficit disorder literary culture that celebrates the 140-character tweet but has a […]
n Since 2007, Bulbstorm has been at the forefront of smart thinking about ways that companies and brands can tap into powerful ideas online and then transform them into new products […]
n It’s always fun to watch I Drink Your Milkshake moments play out in the corporate world – those dramatic moments when one company announces that it will take over […]
When you look at how Apple completely disrupted the music industry with the introduction of the iTunes digital music store back in 2001, it’s natural to ask: Which other companies […]
n In a digital world, passionate consumers are taking on the role of online brand ambassadors, and nearly anyone has the ability to influence a brand’s reputation online. To explore […]
A number of visionary companies that are changing the way we think about consumption: Zipcar, FreeCycle, Netflix, Etsy, CouchSurfing and Zopa.
Yo Taylor, I’m really happy for you, I’ma let you finish, because you have one of the bestselling albums of the past five years. Not to get all Kanye about […]