Even though creativity can happen anywhere, throughout history there are certain studios, offices and labs that have generated sustained creative innovations across long stretches of time – sometimes measured in decades. Spaces where some intangible concoction of elements come together … Continue reading hallowed halls: what makes an enduring innovation space?
OFF THE LEASH! A funny description of my Get a Grip podcast episode with hosts Michael Colligan and Greg Ehrich, as I implore the various constituents in the lighting industry to take responsibility as we collectively try to find real … Continue reading get a grip on lighting podcast episode
Innovation is brutal. Sometimes, it can take tenacity stretching not just years, but decades to achieve meaningful change in an industry. Recently I shared a post on abandoned LED innovation projects from earlier in my career. Surprisingly, that post went … Continue reading dead projects club, part 2: the cradle-to-cradle LED pendant
“Good artists copy, great artists steal.” –Pablo Picasso Pablo Picasso, by his own admission, must have been a world class thief. And you know what every other “artist” or “creative” is? A thief. Gathering, stealing and plundering ideas that they … Continue reading A.I. is democratizing imagination
For the past year I’ve been running a LinkedIn marketing campaign promoting…ummm…myself. Seeking either project work for Koerner Design or a new full time gig. I just noticed that I surpassed 100,000 LinkedIn impressions across the past 365 days. Considering … Continue reading 100k / 365 on linkedin
No. Most don’t. Oh for sure, they all say they do. Everyone wants to be part of the cool kids with the buzzy success stories on their resumes. But the reality is that innovation is a risk management process, and … Continue reading do companies actually want innovation?
I’m always pushing the frontiers of innovation in architectural lighting and technology systems. Over the course of my career, I’ve had countless projects make it far into design and prototyping that then unfortunately, for one reason or another, never saw … Continue reading dead projects club: LED tile, LED linear modules and LED puck
How cheap has display technology become? YouTuber Drew Builds Stuff turned an entire wall of his basement recreation room into a full-scale digital window. For less than ~$3,000, Drew added three 75″ 4K screens with some simple trim work to … Continue reading digital window for your rec room
This is an exceptionally good short interview with David Kepron, formerly the VP of Design for Global Design Strategies at Marriott International, exploring the future of immersive/location-based digital experience design for hospitality and retail. Continue reading immersive digital technologies with david kepron
A recurring challenge in innovation process management is interfacing with stakeholders who have various levels of risk aversion and either a generative (creative) mindset or an analytical (deductive) mindset. This is sometimes dumbed-down to a binary of “creatives” vs “bean … Continue reading the innovation attitude matrix
Huge thanks to Nic Paton, editor of the Lighting Journal from the Institution of Lighting Professionals for including a piece I wrote urging lighting specifiers to rethink what “sustainability” in architectural lighting really means. Check out “Cleaning Up Our Act” in … Continue reading cleaning up our act
Many professionals working on B2B innovation projects lump together a broad range of the promotional activities necessary to launch their innovation under the generic concept of “MARKETING” – which creates tremendous confusion when trying to properly derisk and scope the … Continue reading innovation management: marketing vs product marketing vs sales communications
YouTube channel Technology Connections posted a very thoughtful video exploring the topic of disposable LED lighting versus socket/lamp designs: It is ridiculous that the LED revolution reduced the lighting industry to this state. The most basic, simplistic of module/lamp standards … Continue reading the pro’s and con’s of disposable lighting
The World Experience Organization posted a fantastic interview with author Joseph Pine discussing a concept called “the Money Value of Time” in experiential design. Do you think of time as a cost? Or do you picture time as revenue? In … Continue reading the money value of time
Microsoft, Meta (aka Facebook), and NVIDIA have recently launched high-profile vision pieces showcasing their individual takes on virtual reality systems – what the tech press is currently labeling the “metaverse” – a variant of the broader internet focused on data-enriched … Continue reading an omniverse, a metaverse and a mesh walk into a bar…
Check out this outstanding new video from Moment Factory and Adobe that dives into the new range of skillsets required for experiential design in architectural/physical//digital placemaking projects. As digital screens, digital projection and digital lighting rapidly evolves, classic design areas … Continue reading the new skills
Professor Deborah Dougherty at Rutgers Business School produced a wonderfully concise overview video explaining the concept of innovation management. What is “innovation management” you ask? Included with the video description is an elegantly succinct summary: “Innovation entails integrating technologies and … Continue reading innovation management by deborah dougherty
In watching the terrific online class “Leading Like a Futurist” by Lisa Kay Solomon on LinkedIn Learning, I came across this great concept for a “cone of possibility” that diagrams the ability to see multiple futures – such a key … Continue reading cone of possibility
Youtube channel Everyday Astronaut just scored an amazing interview with Elon Musk at SpaceX’s Boca Chica development site, where SpaceX is rapidly – and I do mean RAPIDLY – iterating their Starship rocket development program. During the video, Elon laid … Continue reading elon musk’s 5 step R&D strategy
A couple projects were completed after the Luminous Patterns venture was effectively terminated, but I managed to track down on the Interwebs a couple images of each — to at least prove to myself that all our hard work is … Continue reading luminous patterns – the lost projects
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