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Charlene Li sparked a bit of controversy by crowdsourcing her Logo using CrowdSPRING. Designers protested that services like CrowdSpring and 99Designs take work away from them and that you can’t get the same level of quality. Charlene’s colleague, Jeremiah Owyang, commented on the controversy on his blog and defended Charlene’s action pointing out [...]

Last year, as I was researching UGC (user generated content) I starting to observe that some physical goods manufacturers are adopting a form of user-generated content. They allow consumers to create (at least to some extent) the goods they purchase. Instead of having factories produce mass articles determined by a few producers, could factories [...]

I went to a lecture with Ellen Lupton at PNCA in Portland (great space, by the way). Lupton is a star designer and she was quite entertaining to listen to. Besides some funny insights on the perils of the design of women bras, toasters and a not-so-convincing case for luggage sans wheels, Lupton focused her [...]