Do you live in NYC and like art exibitions?
I think you should consider to visit “Design and the Elastic Mind”.
“The exhibition highlights designers’ ability to grasp momentous changes in technology, science, and history—changes that demand or reflect major adjustments in human behaviour—and translate them into objects that people can actually understand and use.
Doesn’t that sound interesting? One of the important roles of the designer reveals it self: The role as an Sensemaking Catalyst.
…or what do you say?
Few weeks ago the online version of the economist included the following figure on membership growth of facebook. It appears that growth rates have somewhat peaked.
Do you agree, do you see the same movement? I my self got my FB-profile 5 months ago, and I must admit that I got one because of curiousness, and because a few clients asked me about the potential. Do you have a FB-profile? Why?
Another conference at the end of September, in Amsterdam this time around, Picnic has a stellar list of speakers. An “annual event for all those interested and involved in cross media content and technology in Europe, North America and Asia.
Under the theme “celebrating creative genius”, PICNIC ‘06 will provide you with the opportunity to discuss major trends, see innovative content, formats and channels, and develop new opportunities.”
This will surely be exciting, it’s too bad it’s so darn expensive… ill have to listen to the podcast then 
Hans-Henrik, Jacob and myself will be involved in Index and especially in Index:Views - the summit for creative leaders - next week. This is hardly anything new for our regular readers 
However, this is far from the only global design event in Copenhagen next week!
Era 05: World Design Congress will also open its doors and although almost every session is sold out, I was asked by the project manager Marc (and by his colleauge Marie) to post a small advertisment for an interesting session on Intellectual Property. If your intersted in this topic and you are in or around Copenhagen next week, this is worth checking out!
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