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pLevi Strauss Co. and Forum for the Future a href=”http://www.forumforthefuture.org/projects/fashion-futures”call for the fashion industry/a to work together to create a sustainable world in a a href=”http://www.forumforthefuture.org/files/FashionFutures_2025_FINAL_SML.pdf”new report/a launched today that explores the future of the trillion dollar sector./p

pFashion Futures presents a href=”http://www.forumforthefuture.org/projects/fashion-animations”four vivid scenarios/a of the world of 2025 and the role of the fashion industry, helping companies around the globe navigate the ever-changing challenge of developing sustainable business./p

pstrongSlow is Beautiful/strong/p

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pstrongCommunity Couture/strong/p

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pstrongstrongTechno-Chic/strong/strong/p

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pstrongPatchwork Planet/strong/p

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pHis answers are short and straightforward, so we’ll follow suit and avoid giving you a bad-pun headline like “Alessi is amore.” Here’s A HREF=”http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/ba012dba-1cf5-11df-aef7-00144feab49a.html” 20 questions with Alberto Alessi/A from the IFinancial Times/I, including a big one: “How do you want to be remembered?” (Hint: It’s not for ID!)br /
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pEntrepreneur Paul Buchheit, lead developer of a little something called Gmail, has an opinion piece up with an interesting take on the product design process. Entitled “A HREF=”http://paulbuchheit.blogspot.com/2010/02/if-your-product-is-great-it-doesnt-need.html” If your product is Great, it doesn’t need to be Good/A,” it espouses the following central theory:/p

blockquoteWhat’s the right approach to new products? Pick three key attributes or features, get those things very, very right, and then forget about everything else./blockquote

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Used to be that “Going to that big place in the sky” was a euphemism for death, but now it signifies forward-thinking companies looking to take advantage of distributed computing power. In an article called “Industrial design moving to the clouds,” Manufacturer’s Monthly reports that SolidWorks is moving towards cloud computing. SolidWorks CEO Jeff Ray says the time is ripe, now that others have paved the way:

“We are naturally cautious and pessimistic. And that’s a good thing because we are designing airplanes and motor cars. We need to design from a high level of scepticism…. What it means is that by the time we in the engineering community start to use this technology it’s already been shaken out in the commercial world.

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Last week, we told you that looking at the Met‘s finances from 2008-2009 was a good indicator of how tough the economic downfall was on the museum industry (ignoring SFMOMA, of course), and now we give you another individual representation of the financial mess, this time in architecture. Building Design reports that starchitect Zaha Hadid, despite having had another year of buzz and seemingly nonstop commissions, has released her firm’s financials and they show a loss of nearly 70% in revenue in just a single year (“over £5 million in 2008 to £1.6 million in the year to March 2009”). Easy to understand how the economy would have taken its toll on every architecture firm, but hard to believe it would hit so hard at someone like Hadid’s level. Though we suppose that’s where you bring in that old familiar “Bigger they are, harder they fall” adage. Certainly helps paint a better picture as to why other starchitects like Norman Foster and Richard Rogers went through massive employee purges last year, why David Adjaye was finding his company teetering on the brink, and how the only way a non-starchitect seemed to be able to earn a nickle was by offering advice for a nickel. Though even with those lousy numbers, and Hadid’s own staffing purge last March, Building Design’s report also shows that her firm is one of the few that has come back and started growing, increasing their hiring by double digits:

A spokesman for Zaha Hadid Architects told BD: “The numbers demonstrate that the company continues to grow, driven by an increasing workload. It is expected there will be significant other achievements to report in the current year.”

One rival said he wasn’t surprised that Hadid was continuing to recruit instead of cutting jobs. “It’s the only firm that has bucked the trend [on recruiting] all along,” he said.

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