Interview. His Royal Highness Prince Philip on his Passion for good Design.

November 28th, 2009 • View Comments Interview
Tags: Cool, Creativity, Design, Interview, visual, World

Some things may sound odd in the first place. This is one of them. I did not know that His Royal Highness Prince Philip is real design afficionado. Yes, the husband of Queen Elizabeth of England. This interview was arranged to mark the 50th anniversary of the Prince Philip Designer’s Prize. And together with design commentator Kevin McCloud we get very ‘normal’ insights into a very unusual person.

SixthSense. Redefining Man-Machine-Interaction.

November 18th, 2009 • View Comments Experimental, Tech, Tools
Tags: Cool, Creativity, Experimental, Gesture, innovation, Interfaces, Interview, Prediction, Presentation, Tech, TED, Touch, Trends, World

The latest series of Ted takes us to India. Pranav Mistry is a student at the notorious innovation factory M.I.T and inventor of SixthSense, a wearable device that enables new interactions between the real world and the world of data. In this demo he explains this new type of men-machine interaction – including a deep look at his SixthSense device and a new, paradigm-shifting paper “laptop.” In an onstage Q&A, Mistry says he’ll open-source the software behind SixthSense, to open its possibilities to all. Fantastic stuff.

Madmen. An interview with David Ogilvy.

August 12th, 2009 • View Comments Brands, Classics
Tags: Agencies, Brands, Business, Classics, David Ogilvy, Ideas, Interview, Ogilvy, Philosophy, Strategy

I admit, this is a rather classic ad week. Apart from M&As such as the network I work for being bought by another network, and of course Friendfeed being eaten by Facebook there was not too much going on in the social web last week. So why not take the time to get back to the classics? David Ogilvy for example. One of the fathers of modern advertising and a Madman whose voice will stay relevant in this industry for ages to come. Watch this great interview with the master himself being interviewed by John Crichton in 1977.

The video was realized by the American Association of Advertising Agencies AAAA. Thank you.