Alexa Andrzejewski of Adaptive Path compiled some of the best ideas she has heard at Lift Asia in a blog post. She wrote a nice recap of the most important things that have been said:

[...] ON VISUALIZATION: By capturing and visualizing multiple streams of real-time data, we are able to show what IS happening rather than what WAS happening, prompting questions we didn’t know we had. (Stamen)

ON THE PROBLEMS WITH CASH: With cash-based systems, it’s the poorest people, those who take little bits from the ATM at the time, who bear the highest transaction costs. (David Birch) [...]

ON SUSTAINABILITY: What if devices were made to be worn IN not out, feel like an investment that’s made to last, age gracefully and have timeless features? (Raphael Grignani) [...]

ON ROBOTS: If we have a limited vision of what robots should be, our ability to create robots will be limited. The debate about humanoid vs. non-humanoid robots is moot — there’s room in the taxonomy for all kinds of robots. The most evolutionary robots will be “Homo Robotus:” Robots that are a part of a person, amplifying the person’s body and mind. (Bruno Bonnell)

ON ENVISIONING THE FUTURE: The ability to create unconstrained visions of the future lives within us all. To tap into it, we must escape from the fetters of legacies, assumptions and technology-driven innovation. We must return to the wonderful world of make believe. (From my talk on “Experiencing the Future Through Make Believe” during the Open Afternoon)

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So many ideas, so little time, and the speed of changes is not helping.

Well, I am up early and ready to pack my laptop away for the long journey. My printer is playing up, so I have carefully copied the ticket number into my notebook. I felt that really I should be doing it with a pencil stub, carefully licking the lead before writing each number.

I have chosen my workshops for tomorrow. I thought it would be hard, how would I choose between so many interesting titles. But then it was easy ...

Creativity Utopia Workshop

"Let us start with the truth, the naked screaming truth. The creative do not care about creativity, they simply create... "

Yes, I like that idea. I've been immersed in creativity since October (before then I didn't know it was anything to do with me).

But then, I read,

"... For me the past year has been one of exploding tabus. Yes, exploding tabus. Your mileage may differ, but I on my part have found no other way to deal with tabus. ... "

Hmm, I love destruction :)~

" ... Utopia, on the other hand is the divine soup from which our dreams are made of. Utopia is the primordial soup of imagination and limitation. Utopia is paradoxland uncharted! ... "

... primordial ...

"... In this workshop we will explore tabus, utopias and forget creativity."

I can do that!

And after that I read,

Industrial IdeaProduction or «Why is "Dare to Share" the key to reliable innovation?»

Samuel Mueller = "hopelessly infected with the idea virus and eager to recklessly spread it around."

Who could resist?

So, let's say, LIFT look and feel happens to be about people.
OK. It sounds logical. You can see a lot of people in the background!

But it's hard to see it as a background (like a pattern or color)
when you actually know all of these people! ( they look like real, no?)
I see them talking, walking, eating, discussing, reading.
I remember nice moments, I experience something more
meaningful than a nice design.

Well, I always hope so. The same way I believe we never
discuss as much as we should about visual power, which is something huge.
This is suposed to be a -post- so, Instead of discussing, I invite you to explore.
Get your eyes scrolling and looking for individuals that looks like someone you know!
It's a funny and easy thing to do while talking over the phone!

how it all started:
During one of my visits to Seoul, I got lost - it's easy to get lost there.
This time it was with Julian (bleecker) and Laurent (bolli not haug) trying to find a place that was in fact closed. By chance we found a nice bookshop. Very nice one. Kind of place full of books about art + design+graphic design in Asia.
Quite interesting.

There was a post card, full of drawings, black and white simple drawings
of people, academic studies fixed on the door. And immediatly
I knew - don't ask me why- that this card would be the starting point of the new look and feel for LIFT. I kept looking at Julian and Laurent but at that moment
I was seeing the community (all of us) faces getting together.
I found myself looking for drawing books: portraits, details, different strokes.

I bought one book. Absolute nothing to do with portraits...
But I got the image! The one that was on the door. And everything started.

Don't you think we're quite powerful together?
Hope you enjoy it!