tool., Inc. » michael http://toolinc.com Product design and development Mon, 30 Aug 2010 21:48:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Creativity is Key to the New Economy http://toolinc.com/blog/creativity-is-key-to-the-new-economy/ http://toolinc.com/blog/creativity-is-key-to-the-new-economy/#comments Fri, 27 Aug 2010 20:43:50 +0000 michael http://toolinc.com/?p=1977 As reported by Devin Leonard in Bloomberg Businessweek, and suggested by others, consumers are flocking to innovative products over “me too” products.  In this economy, hard earned dollars are spent on high value, creative, compelling, and robust designs.  Put yer thinkin’ caps on!

Listen to his summary on On Point.

http://www.onpointradio.org/media-player?url=http://www.onpointradio.org/2010/08/how-we-save&title=How+We+Save+(and+Spend)+Now&pubdate=2010-08-18&segment=2

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The line work is a scanned doodle from a staff meeting.  I then color it during my free time at home.

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I recently bought a new charger for my phone, and the packaging was my favorite part.   A few times I have seen this type of packaging, but until now I haven’t appreciated how nice it functions.   While it’s probably  a bit more expensive then conventional blister packaging,  it seems to have the same amount of content protection, recyclablity, and space for security measures (RFID).  Say what you want about the aesthetics, but this package was very easy to open.  To bad the charger didn’t have me as impressed.

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