Trendwatching is one of my favorite sites to explore ideas and see what's going on in the world of consumer trends.
Example: A pizza cone is a fun product, but it won’t dramatically change the consumer arena. At most, it’s yet another manifestation that consumers want convenience no matter what. The latter is the trend. The product isn’t...
Read the September 2007 Briefing for more insights.
the fruits of imagination: Useful + beautiful
I absolutely love this wallpaper from Duncan Wilson & Sirkka Hammer called PixelNotes. It's made of several layers of sticky notes in progressively darker shades of grey, with solid red at the bottom. As you take notes off the wall, you create various pixellated patterns. So you participate in designing your space as you work. This would definitely be part of my own perfectly designed office.
