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 Ideas@Innovations blog. He is working on a manuscript of a new book on innovation called "Endless Innovation, Most Beautiful and Most Wonderful."
When the smartest guy (or gal) in an industry decides to throw in the towel on a business model, it’s time to stand up and take notice. This week, the […]
As Steven Johnson notes in his wonderful new book, Where Good Ideas Come From, innovation often happens when hunches and concepts from different disciplines bump up against each other in […]
A number of visionary companies that are changing the way we think about consumption: Zipcar, FreeCycle, Netflix, Etsy, CouchSurfing and Zopa.
“Creativity begins when you cut a zero from your budget…” – Brazilian architect and urban planner Jaime Lerner With all the talk out of Washington this week about reduced federal […]
Walk down the street of any community in America and look up – what do you see? A mass of tangled wires that comprise the high-voltage tranmissions lines of the […]
n During the peak of the social media revolution, “lean forward” was one of the buzzwords that was bandied about quite often to explain the changing habits of media consumption. […]
We’re experiencing a retro-digital (or is post-digital?) movement in the tech world: just today, I read about a gaming company (Discovery Bay Games) that has figured out to convert your […]
The current issue of Wallpaper* magazine – in addition to its feature on the global Design Awards 2011 Winners – has a wonderfully thought-provoking article about the growing popularity of […]
n Over the past 12 months, the whole notion of “design thinking” has come into vogue. Not only are there entire books devoted to “design thinking” – like Tim Brown’s […]
Bluto Blutarsky might just have something to teach Corporate America. Just as fat, drunk and stupid is no way to make it through life, big, wealthy and bloated is no […]
Of late, I’ve been thinking a lot about visual storytelling and the various ways that the Internet and digital devices like the iPad require us to process information and content. […]
While a number of leading technology companies (IBM, Cisco, HP) have launched impressive Smart Grid initiatives, the broader public still doesn’t really understand why the “Smart Grid” is so important […]
The argument for or against e-books always seems to boil down to one central issue: e-books can not be touched, bookmarked and lovingly annotated in the same way that real […]
The Global Africa Project sheds light on design innovators at the forefront of Africa's design movement, which is being integrated (co-opted?) into the marketing of Western goods.
Thanks to a new crop of Chinese design firms, the phrase "Made in China" may soon come to stand for design, creativity and innovation.