Author: Youngme Moon

My favorite business offering for 2010!

He’s preaching to this man’s choir. Innovative, unique, new….etc. have become as meaningful as white bed linen.

A sampling of Moon’s energy and style:

Author: Jeff Jarvis Publisher: Harper Collins Publishers

Jeff Jarvis offers an insightful view into the world of Google, the fastest growing company in history. WWGD explores the infinite possibilities that Web 2.0 provides to the networked world, and Jarvis guides us through Google ‘think,’ Google rules, and the radically unique aspects of the Google platform.

Author: Daniel H. Pink Publisher: Riverhead Books

IMAGINE
How Creativity Works
Jonah Lehrer

Imagination and creativity are not just an art or capacity that is innately bred into some of us.
Lehrer explores the science of creativity and the natural endowment we all share, if we are willing to free ourselves and allow it to happen.
How do we permit ourselves to ‘think crazy,’ find inspiration, rediscover our childhood zeal for serendipity, clear the decks of the stale layers of familiar thinking, and swim with the creative.

BLACK SWAN
The Impact of the Highly Improbable
Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Think about a totally unimaginable happening, one that may even seem inconsequential, and yet with enormous global repercussion.  The financial crisis that blindsided the USA in 2008 and spread globally, the birth of the World Wide Web, 9/11, and the rise of religious fanaticism. 
The Black Swan is a provocative, persuasive eye opener in its examination of ‘preparing for the unimaginable.’

EVIL PLANS
Having Fun on the Road to World Domination
Hugh MacLeod

Cartoonist and blogger Hugh MacLeod follows up his bestselling IGNORE EVERYBODY with this joyful expedition into your soul’s desire for purpose, happiness and accomplishment.
Macleod’s ideas about ‘you and how you fulfill you' are universal and eloquently simple.
His seriously funny cartoons are worth the price.

THE MEDIUM IS THE MASSAGE
Marshall McLuhan and Quentin Fiore

Marshall McLuhan was a cultural icon of the 1960s.
His impeccable vision of what was to come/what is today, is uncanny.
Dozens of universities awarded McLuhan honorary degrees and he secured a Schweitzer Chair in the humanities at Fordham University. NBC aired ‘This Is Marshall McLuhan’ in March of 1967.

Our enemy is not lack of preparation; it’s not the difficulty of the project, or the state of the marketplace or the emptiness of our back account.
THE ENEMY IS RESISTANCE.

Stacey C. Lee, a 4th year Industrial Design student at Rhode Island School of Design, 
created packaging for Dove Delight,a body wash for kids from age 4 to 7.
Children can  playfully stamp on their body with the lid of the bottle.
This design encourages children to enjoy showering and the bathing experience.

Casey Schneider, a 3rd year Industrial Design student at Rochester Institute of Technology created an electric conductor lamp with two LEDs and assembly board separated.  The aluminum arc contains electric current in each side and the lights slide up and down. 
The base of this contemporary lamp is mohogany wood.