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For UNIROSS, InProcess imagined a charger able to install the gesture of recharging in the daily life of the users. POM is the new product belonging to the category of the small equipments of domestic energy; it facilitates the recharging of batteries but also nomad devices, thanks to the integrated USB port, and becomes a object which is fit to be seen and which takes a particular place at home or at the office. POM has already obtained an “Etoile de Observeur du Design 09“, has been selected for the International Biennial of Saint Etienne, won the SuperDesign 2010 Prize and was awarded with the “Special favourite sustainable development” SuperDesign Prize.
As the world is ascending into a future of automation and sleek lines, Ines Min from The Korea Times interviews InProcess’ CEO, Christophe Rebours, on his vision about the ever-increasing need of human centered innovation. He also contributes thoughts on the Korean and French complementary approaches when it comes to understanding contemporary lives, from ubiquity to human sciences history.
Read the article here.
In the third episode of the Karotz’s Designer Diary, Christophe Rebours explores the design of the behavior of the rabbit.
Related to physical attributes (see Episode #2), it is as much determined by the technical ingredients of expression as by the tone of the rabbit. The Karotz’s webcam has for instance allowed InProcess’s designers to script multiple life experiences, transmitted to Mindscape as a specification book. The tone of the rabbit, induced by its voice and its vocabulary has been in the same way copiously scripted. These are the key ingredients of an experience design.
View the Karotz Designer Diary #3 here.
Christophe Rebours is invited to give a keynote conference on innovation and on InProcess’ original methods to give birth to inspired design, during the Rendez-vous@Seoul event at the Kring.
He is also invited to meet with Korean outward-looking and innovative companies, who are highly receptive to the creativity “à la française” in the design field.
While Korean design talents are renowned worldwide, the intercultural exchange in the design business gets highly attractive. Collaborative projects between cultures can set new industrial standards and processes, inspire new business models, and encourage new ways for people to connect with one another.
In this second episod of the saga of the rabbit, Christophe Rebours presents the thinking and research on the light that gave birth to the DAL lamp.
He details the expressive power of the light, its rhythm and color variations which make it a powerful vehicle for expression. He then presents Nabaztag, Nabaztag: tag and Karotz. Poetry of the colored light is one of three key physical attributes of the expressiveness of the rabbit, the second is surely the efficient movement of its ears and the third is the sound – Christophe will discuss that soon!
Stay tuned!
View the Karotz Designer Diary #2
“Design is one of the essential elements of the rabbit’s success” claims Christophe Rebours.
The designer of all the rabbits and the co-founder of Violet, tells the incredible saga of the rabbit, from the Nabaztag birth to its maturity in Karotz, through “Designer Diaries.”
In this chapter #1, Christophe Rebours explains how this first emotional messenger, now worship, was born. Before our eyes he draws rabbits just like he did when working on the first designs, he shares his inspiration, demonstrates the importance of design to stimulate the emotions, and explains why he campaigned as a designer to create and give a strong identity to this object so that it can seduce users and get installed permanently in our lives and homes.
View the Karotz Designer Diary #1
Design fax portrays InProcess.
In this article, Design fax interviews Christophe Rebours about our methods and their application in a world in mutation. Christophe details the paradox of a strong need of models reinvention, with big innovation projects, and the fact that in the same time projects are run in chaotic context, with tight budgets.
Christophe Rebours brings his insights and innovation expertise to a debate on the social media influence on the TV business model. He notably focuses on the live broadcast of events, joined by crowds of thousands of individuals who sit in front of their connected TV – and who feel they share joy and excitement all together through their online communities.
Christophe Rebours speaks at the Machine to Machine panel conference on “MtoM at the time of industrialization and mass market“. InProcess deals with the industrialization issue from the original idea –the design of new MtoM usages by the observation of users- to the creation of new industrial and economic models. Christophe Rebours explains how exemplary MtoM products and services innovate and create value for industrials as well as end users. He emphasizes the main issues for the industrials, from the optimization of their performance and energy consumption, to the costs savings and the brand value. InProcess focuses on the strategic issue around the co-ordination of all markets involved in the same economic field in order to evolve harmoniously in a new ecosystem. Christophe Rebours illustrates his demonstration by the example of the textile field.
BELL LABS sets up a workshop on “Producing invention: Inventory of multidisciplinary research.” For how did the Edison teams, gathered in Menlo Park, invent the light bulb? How did John Wild and his team have made progress in research on medical imaging, thus laying the foundations for the ultrasound? Finally, were Dan Bricklin and Robert Frankston really lonely researchers, who invented the spreadsheet with Visicalc for Apple II?
Multidisciplinarity is seen as a way to properly understand the user dimension in research. This finding has led Bell Labs to set up research teams gathering researchers in computer science, design, psychology, ergonomics and sociology. But if the theoretical work on the representation of the user as a means to ensure the success of innovations is widely distributed, what happens in the multidisciplinary inventive process, which in the case of Bell Labs (research center whose productions, scientific facts and inventions, nourish innovation at Alcatel-Lucent) precedes innovation?
In the multidisciplinary research, did the inventor disappear, if he ever existed? If an invention is characterized by a publication, who, or rather what specialty, can we assign it to? Ultimately, is the multidisciplinary invention the juxtaposition of disciplinary inventions, or an achievement that has transcended disciplines?
The roundtable “What is the nature of the multidisciplinary invention?” will be hosted by Christophe Rebours and will gather Bruno Aidan (director of applications research, Bell Labs), Jean-François Bassereau (Research Director, RCP Design Global), Nicolas Nova (researcher at Liftlab) and Simon Richir (director of the virtual reality laboratory, ENSAM).
