Design & Thinking

D&T Team Update!

designandthinking — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 08:50:41 +0000

What we are up to now

Thank you all for a fantastic year! We enjoy “meeting” people all over the world because of D&T. There has been about 150 screenings worldwide.

Muming and Iris officially founded Muris in Taipei. They are now closely involved with the entrepreneur and design communities, doing campus tour, and [...]

The Day they First saw Design&Thinking…

designandthinking — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 23:50:14 +0000

… was success! People started coming in 10 minutes before the showing, and we were excited there were much more people than we expected! (This is more than some other great films I went to at the festival! Oh!)

We did try to promote this screening in the LA area but had no way to [...]

Live at Newport Beach! Opening Night

designandthinking — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 19:13:43 +0000

OK, being interested in D&T probably means you are regular students of navigating the unknown. For those who don’t know what film festival is supposed to be like, especially as a filmmaker here’s from a totally newbie. This is what I saw when arriving the Opening Night Premiere of movie “Jewtopia”:

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Design & Thinking WORLD PREMIERE Newport Beach Film Festival

designandthinking — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 22:16:55 +0000

The Kickstarter-funded documentary Design & Thinking, long-awaited, is having its WORLD PREMIERE in Newport Beach Film Festival, Orange County on Saturday, April 28th. As a part of the Festival’s AA+D Series (Arts, Architecture + Design Series), this film brings forth the spotlight discussion of design thinking [...]

Dear Backers, Review Design & Thinking!

backer — Sun, 15 Apr 2012 03:16:00 +0000

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Back in July 2011, 335 people supported us through the online creative funding platform, Kickstarter.

They showed support in different ways, by pre-ordering, by offering their music work, by [...]

Host a Screening for Design & Thinking

designandthinking — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 17:45:38 +0000

Want to see Design & Thinking the documentary? Or more importantly, need someone to see it? Take the initiative and host a screening in your area!

Currently, you can see Design & Thinking Screening Schedules HERE.

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We are now scheduling community screenings all the way to [...]

Interviewee Jennifer Pahlka gives TED Talk

designandthinking — Sat, 24 Mar 2012 23:13:01 +0000

Jennifer Pahlka is the founder of Code for America, an organization that has software engineers volunteer 1 year at a local government.

We found out about Code For America when Yang attended Web 2.0 2011. It is one of the most interesting stories we really wanted to put in Design & Thinking!

Web [...]

Almost Finished plus Hollywood!!

designandthinking — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 20:11:35 +0000

A lot has happened in the past few weeks…

Our movie is ALMOST DONE!!

In February Mu-Ming & Iris presented the almost final cut, we watched it 2 times internally, and then had 2 informal test screenings under tight time constraint.

The first was a friends & family screening, [...]

New mindset of solving business problems: Interviewing Jump Associates

designandthinking — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 21:13:10 +0000

From where I came from in 2007, the best companies to go into were McKinsey, Bain & Co. and BCG. Those places seems to be the most flexible and influential environments for the smartest people to solve the hardest problems.

As I made my way to the design world, and learned about design thinking, it [...]

Movies, Documentaries and our Real world

designandthinking — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 20:34:55 +0000

The ratio of number of existing documentaries and their deserving influence is probably way higher than for any other types of films. So many people are expressing their ideas through docs but usually there just isn’t enough resources to spread them to the audience who are interested.

Despite that, there are more and more films [...]