More Shabby than Chic

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  Nowadays people are looking for The Real Thing. We want genuine and robust stuff that last forever, or at least looks like they already have. On this very day of writing we have 1076 items on sale named “Shabby Chic” at the Swedish online sales market Blocket. They are everywhere these constructed antiques, the [...]


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That sounds great!

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Current problems for people There’s a war going on in the living rooms of the world – the never ending battle between home electronics and interior design. It might be the huge TV that really doesn’t work with the nice old cupboard, or maybe the heaps of cables that for some reason needs to connect [...]


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In your face!

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According to the swedish magazine Ny Teknik these companies - Panasonic, Samsung, Sony, Xpand 3D, Changhong Electric, Funai Electric, Hisense Electric, Hitachi Consumer Electronics, Mitsubishi Electric Corp, Philips, Seiko Epson, Sharp, SIM2 Multimedia, TCL Corp, Toshiba and View Sonic – are joining forces to standardise the technology around 3D-goggles. They are facing a huge opportunity and a massive [...]


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Open Innovation: Global Sustainablity Jam

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Photo: Emmy Jonsson   People People has been supporting a 48 hour open innovation challenge where groups gather around the world to come up with new sustainable solutions together with people they never met before. We strongly believe in the Jams vision that creative people working actively together is the solution to many of our [...]


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Corporate Social Responsibility: New EU agenda for action

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When professor Karl-Henrik Robèrt, one of Sweden’s foremost cancer scientists, found out that doctors where travelling to different conferences to discuss cancer in different parts of the body he realized that they better find a common language so that they could travel to the same place and talk about cancer more holistically. That same insight [...]


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Make A Difference

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    People People are specialists in sustainable design. Here’s a video about it, with music by our dear friend Anders Stenberg from Deportees. Check out their awesome new album Islands & Shores!


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A classic win-win

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  We are often told to change our behavior in order to help the environment (Switch off! Recycle! Use less! Be better!). But in fact behavior change doesn’t have to be painful. On the contrary, we happily change the way we behave in various ways because of all the New Stuff around us. Just look [...]


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The first thousand tweets

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  I started mini-blogging on twitter around two and a half years ago with the aim to spread information about design, innovation and sustainability. Today I posted my thousand tweet and to celebrate I have tried to analyze what I have learned and how I am using the tool today.   Spreading professional information My [...]


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The Industrial Revolution 2.0 TEDx talk

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When we said that People People want to “start the Industrial Revolution 2.0″, where humanity saves it self by creating a sustainable industry, I remember Johan saying this is “TED worthy”! We are both avid “TEDTalks” fans. The TED conference bringings together smart people from three worlds Technology, Entertainment and Design and has become an [...]


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People People was hiring a Colour & Material Designer

People People hiring a Colour & Material Designer

Are you a friendly, charming, fun and skilled, Colour & Material Designer? Or are you an Industrial Designer with the same traits and a desire to sharpen your skills in production from a design perspective? Then we invite you to convince us why your the right person for the job.   Applications are now closed! Thank [...]


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