Sarasota International Design Summit–November 5-7, 2007

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The Ringling College of Art & Design is hosting the Sarasota International Design Summit, a conference that brings together artists, designers and innovators from the worlds of philanthropy, technology, fashion, art and science to share their ideas and designs, and discuss the theme “Designing for Life: Transforming People, Places & Products”.

The goal of the event is to bring designers, innovators and big thinkers from other realms together to work toward weaving sustainability and design into all facets of design.
Topics will include:

Human-Centered Design
Service Innovation and Decision Design
Generational Design
Social Entrepreneurship
New Philanthropy
Technology, Entertainment and Health

Scheduled speakers include Tim Sarnoff, President of Sony Pictures ImageWorks, Constance Adams of NASA, TransHab, Valerie Casey of Frog Design, Scott Charon of Herman Miller and Beth Viner of Smartspace, IDEO.

The event also features a tour of the Ringling College campus, breakout sessions and a Fast Company party. More than half of the events will be held in the Ritz-Carlton hotel.
EVENT DETAILS

Date: November 5-7, 2007
Location: Ringling College of Art + Design
2700 North Tamiami Trail
Sarasota, Florida 34234-5895
p 941.351.5100
f 941.359.7517

Agenda
Register online

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	The Art of Innovation by Tom KelleyIDEO, the world’s leading design firm, is the brain trust that’s behind some of the more brilliant innovations of the past 20 years–from the Apple mouse, the Polaroid i-Zone instant camera, and the Palm V to the “fat” toothbrush for kids and a self-sealing water bottle for dirt bikers. Not surprisingly, companies all over the world have long wondered what they could learn from IDEO, to come up with better ideas for their own products, services, and operations. In this terrific book from IDEO general manager Tom Kelley (brother of founder David Kelley), IDEO finally delivers–but thankfully not in the step-by-step, flow-chart-filled “process speak” of most how-you-can-do-what-we-do business books.
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