Category Archives: books

M is for Mustang, B is for Boombox

By Ben Cooper | Published: March 3, 2009
My lovely friend Claudia Pearson, who lives in Brooklyn NYC, is an artist and illustrator. We were chatting during that cross over time, when one country awakes and the other is preparing for sleep, and got to talk about her new work. Pictured above are some of my favourite ‘alphabet’ illustrations. We also got to [...]
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Synesthetic Cookbook

By Ben Cooper | Published: December 13, 2005
Can’t figure out what to have for dinner? Hugo Liu, a graduate student at M.I.T.’s Media Lab, has developed a “smart” cookbook that can recommend a dish on the basis of some of the tastes and emotions commonly associated with it. Synesthetic Recipes, a searchable computer database of 60,000 recipes, can’t actually read your mind, [...]
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IDEO :: The Ten Faces of Innovation

By Ben Cooper | Published: December 8, 2005
Tom Kelley is the General Manager of design & innovation agency Ideo. His book The Ten Faces of Innovation looks interesting (i haven’t read it). Over the years, Tom has observed a number of roles that people can play in an organization to foster innovation and new ideas while offering an effective counter to naysayers. [...]
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