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"Is crowdsourcing killing the traditional design industry? "

"Is Crowdsourcing killing traditional design practice was published on 1st Sept and has received a fair bit of comment. I'm particularly interested to explore the potential for designers to expand their practice and capacity through social networks! ABC Radio By Design has invited me to speak on 7th October. I'm pretty keen to get more comments on the value of this concept so please feel free to add your thoughts!"

Examples of great crowdsourcing projects:

A phone in the hand tracks birds in the bush The technology is at last here to to launch Project Cassowary.

Sparked by previous discussions, I wonder if anyone is aware of any successful projects/tools that allow users to geotag resources on the web (or to contribute corrections/enhancements to things already tagged)

Pin your history to the world - crowdsourcing project: people upload their historical images and stories to a map

Bilder schreiben Geschichte, doch selten sind der Geschichte so oft die gleichen Bilder verschrieben worden wie 1989/90 in Deutschland. Die Atmosphäre vor dem Mauerfall, der Alltag entlang des "Zeitenwechsels", aber auch die Parallelität von Euphorie und Verunsicherung bilden den Kern von bedeutsamen Erfahrungen, die in der Bilderflut selten durchschienen. Dies war der Anlass, noch einmal neu über die Bilder dieser Umbruchszeit nachzudenken und den privaten Bildern Raum zu gebe

"Galaxy Zoo: Hubble" verwendet wunderschöne Bilder von hunderttausenden von Galaxien, die aus dem NASA-Archiv des Weltraumteleskops Hubble stammen. Um zu verstehen, wie diese Galaxien - und unsere Heimatgalaxie - entstanden sind, benötigen wir Ihre Hilfe bei der Klassifikation der Formen der Galaxien - eine Aufgabe, der das menschliche Gehirn besser gewachsen ist als selbst der fortschrittlichste moderne Computer. Wenn Sie sich beeilen, könnte es sogar sein, dass Sie der erste Mensch sind, der das Bild einer der Galaxien, die Ihnen zur Klassifizierung gezeigt werden, mit eigenen Augen sieht!

I was reminded of these two design principles when exploring the Johnny Cash Project, a crowd-created music video for a posthumous recording of Cash singing "Ain't No Grave." To construct the video, artist Chris Milk assembled images and footage of Johnny Cash in a sequence along with the song. That's hardly revolutionary. But what happened next is: Milk created a simple tool to invite visitors to augment the frames of the video with digital brushstrokes. The result is a beautiful animated video that composites together alternative frames created by participants all over the world.

Pepsi's Refresh Project is just over a month old now and based on what we've seen so far, is becoming the poster-child for successful blending of social responsibility and branding. Our own Kelli Peterson enthused as much in her early assessment of the campaign. While Pepsi isn't the first to use crowd sourcing for innovation - check out IdeaStorm or Reckitt Benckiser's idealink - we hope this application for the greater good is just the start of a long-term trend. (kommentar von dmi-newsletter, Hinweis Claudia Acklin)

Crowd Sourcing What will changing innovation processes mean for design practitioners? "Adam Schilling, Senior Designer, 99designs.com Adam Schilling is passionate about design, typography, and freethinking. As Senior Designer and a founding member of 99designs.com, he's responsible for crafting user interfaces, conducting guerrilla usability testing, "

Tate Britain displays British art from 1500 to today. Yes, it's a museum, but it's also like a big living room. All those works of art are yours. Tate has devised a new way of looking at the Displays with a range of themed 'Collections'. These suggest a number of personal journeys you could take, reflecting different moods and enthusiasms and revealing the extraordinary breadth of work on show.

Ja, wer kennt sie mittlerweile nicht, die mit kritischem und Wissen suggerierendem Blick eines potentiellen Kunden gestellte Frage wenn es um Social Media Aktivitäten geht: "Und wo ist der RoI?" Dabei wissen die meisten der Kunden noch nicht einmal, was RoI bedeutet. Aber es klingt erstmal wichtig und wissend. Und wir, die wir uns mit Social Media Marketing intensiv beschäftigen und das Social Web täglich leben, wir müssen uns ersteinmal kräftig schütteln und den unangenehm kalten Schauer auf dem Rücken vertreiben. Denn das Gegenrechnen von Social Media verstößt eigentlich gegen alels, was Social Media verkörpert: Authenzität, Freiwilligkeit, Spaß, Offenheit, direkte Kommunikation.

BP's slick green logo doesn't suit a company that wants to invest in tar sands, the dirtiest oil there currently is.

HERE IS NEW YORK is not a conventional gallery show. It is something new, a show tailored to the nature of the event, and to the response it has elicited. The exhibition is subtitled "A Democracy of Photographs" because anyone and everyone who has taken pictures relating to the tragedy was invited to submit their images to the gallery, where they were digitally scanned, printed and displayed on the walls alongside the work of top photojournalists and other professional photographers.

Um es kurz zu machen: ich bin an einem Beitrag mit dem Titel "The Death of the Curator" hängengeblieben, den Pete (sorry, ich war zu blöd, den Nachnamen irgendwo im Blog zu finden) vor ein paar Tagen auf seinem New Curator Blog veröffentlicht hat. Er fragt sich darin, ob die Idee einer von ZeitungsleserInnen kuratierten Ausstellung zeitgenössischer Kunst, wie sie The Guardian und die Saatchi Gallery gerade realisieren, das Ende der Kuratorentätigkeit einläutet?

The Portable Antiquities Scheme is a voluntary scheme to record archaeological objects found by members of the public in England and Wales. Every year many thousands of objects are discovered, many of these by metal-detector users, but also by people whilst out walking, gardening or going about their daily work. Such discoveries offer an important source for understanding our past.

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