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Having been trained as an Industrial Designer I have always seen design as a form giving process.

As a follow up to my last (and rather old) post I wanted to say something about networks as organizations and their aesthetics.

At IDEO we have been working on the topic of designing organizations for a while, most specifically the design of organizations to be more innovative.

Kevin MucCullagh has written a challenging, and long, piece explaining his questions and concerns about design thinking and you can see it posted on Core 77 here.I support much of what he has to say.

For avid followers of the TED conference it will not be new news that British chef Jamie Oliver won the TED Prize this year.

I just got back from TED where the content was as great as usual, maybe even better, and the networking even crazier.

I am spending the next day and a half in Munich before heading up to Davos for the annual WEF annual meeting.

I came away from watching Avatar the other evening stunned by the ingenuity and beauty of the world that James Cameron and his team created.

There is a move afoot to hold a constitutional convention in California.

I had the great pleasure of spending a few days last week with some eminent designers and design thinkers as part of a World Economic Forum event in Dubai.