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Weeknote 230

Vuoden Huiput 2011, Grand One 2012, Flurry & SXSW, mobile applications, future and copycats recap.

by Teppo Kotirinta Principal Designer

Categories Weeknotes

We have stuff in competitions again and we discuss some recent incidents of people copying our website.

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Weeknote 185+186

Winter holidays, urban informatics, business design.

by Panu Korhonen Managing Director

Categories Business, Nordkapp, Weeknotes

It’s Monday morning 8 am, and I’m all alone. Don’t worry, they will be here. It’s just that Monday mornings start slightly slower. Matti, Teppo and Ilkka will be having a well deserved holiday this week. Therefore, you have a new weeknote reporter this time. February was an astonishing month for Nordkapp. We were super […]

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Towards a beautiful, broken future

Reflection on emergent themes at Cognitive Cities, and how the cracks and seams in between might actually be the thing to consider.

by Sami Niemelä Creative Director, Nordkapp

Categories Foresight, Urban Screens

Cognitive Cities was great. I had great fun presenting my view on urban information design and also enjoyed a great deal following all the other speakers as well. As usually happens at these conferences,a large part of the meaningful interaction went on in between the sessions, over a beer and so forth. This was definitely […]

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10 things for 2011

As we're only a few hours away from leaving the first decade of 00's behind, the predictions for the following year are all over the internet already. Following last year's predictions, here's some things to expect in the year 2011.

by Sami Niemelä Creative Director, Nordkapp

UPDATE: now including also the missing fifth piece. Thanks for our reader @sebastianwaters for pointing this out. 1. Connected, wearable electronics hit mainstream On wearable electronics Nike+ was just the beginning. For example, see Mutewatch, Analarm or MMNML‘s incredibly successful Kickstarter project turning iPod Nanos into multitouch wristwatches. The next step is someone making these […]

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Week 150-151/2010

Weeknote about iPad, Feed and summer.

by Teppo Kotirinta Principal Designer

Categories Business, Nordkapp, Weeknotes

People are still excited about the iPad project. You can see one of the many project group sessions going on in the above picture. The project is coming together and a cool video concept looms in the future.

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