We live in a world today where people often make things far more complicated than they need be. Each month we explore the world using the lens of Uncommon Sense by looking at people, places, products, brands and stories.
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What Customers Can’t Tell Us : An Article by Guest Blogger Andrea Kates
Three steps to discovering new ideas The secret to staying ahead of our customers is learning to discover what they want, even when they haven’t envisioned it yet. Like imagining an iPod in the days of the Sony Walkman. State … Continue reading
What If We Put A School Atop Every Building In Manhattan?
Changing the way we think about traditional educational buildings, a team of conceptual designers Ana Luisa Soares, Filipe Magalhães, and André Vergueiro created “Schools in the Sky” as as part of a competition to repurpose roofs. Their idea is to … Continue reading
Why Every Monday Matters
How one man changed his life, and impacted thousands of others from being down on his knees. If I’ve learned anything over the past ten years, it’s been that the old saying of “It’s far more rewarding to give than … Continue reading
A Public Toilet With A Shimmering Facade
Revolutionizing the public restroom, architects Gramazio & Kohler, have created fascinating works of art throughout the city park in Uster Switzerland. These beautifully designed public restrooms are made from of 295 bright green, laser-cut, aluminum strips, folded and designed to … Continue reading
We Know Our Education System Is Broken, So Why Can’t We Fix It?
How many industries that were around 100 years ago—and are still around today—are making their products almost the exact same way? Can you think of an industry that uses almost the identical methods of production they did 100 years ago, … Continue reading
Kids and Stickers
We’ve all seen how kids can miraculously take a package of 20 stickers and make them disappear in two minutes flat. Artist, Yayoi Kusama, takes this concept to the extreme with his creative exhibition ‘The Obliteration Room’. This amazing installation … Continue reading
