tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30760438611253426212012-02-16T03:21:48.236-08:00The official blog of MIO and the Salm BrothersJaime @ MIOhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06100146902095648526noreply@blogger.comBlogger171100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3076043861125342621.post-53675622977969188202010-06-02T09:08:00.001-07:002010-06-02T09:08:40.843-07:00

Come visit us at our new home:http://mioculture.wordpress.com/

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For the past few years I have been discussing with some friends (privately) the need to incorporate certain technologies into our work to create product experiences that are more use-centric or user-defined. It has generally extended only to more expected uses of technology like using web tools as a platform for idea exchange or aesthetic enhancement tools in product design. Recently though while

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Cut and sew what a wonderful way to transform anything. Below is an inside look at MIO's first incursion into the world of the wearable. Below some development images and a few of the prototypes that get our blood going:

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The tension has been brewing, the rhetoric has been building and the reality has been ignored by both sides. I am of course referring to relations between China and the US (both directly and through surrogates). The reality is that both countries NEED each other but don't want to accept this reality, and are unwilling to brush political and cultural competition aside for true economic and social

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Like contemporary musicians the job of the designer is to edit and single out the most powerful combinations. By combinations I mean design choices that have the greatest social, environmental and aesthetic value / impact. In an age when virtually any product imaginable has been designed and redesigned countless times, our role has been transformed to that of curator, co-creator, cultural

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Reviewing my last posts I see that there is quite a bit missing here. Specifically our MIO for Target collaboration. Here is a bit about and some behind the scenes (after my blogophobic moment -we can thank Blogger for that-).MIO for TargetMIO for Target was launched (a small collection of outdoor living products). The collection included the first ever composter carried at Target stores, an

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I have some VERY exciting news for fans of MTV's The Real World. A large variety of our products are included in this new season of the show. Most prominently you will find Bendant Lamps in the bedroom, L lamps in the kitchen and Capsule Lights in what appears to be an office. Here is a link to some images. Look closely and you'll be sure to find other MIO goodies in front of the camera. Quiet on

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It has been a while since my last post (a line too often found in blog posts), but it has more to do with time and technical issues than with my interest in carrying a conversation and getting the word out about the power of design. So as I sat here in an airport and wondered who reads this blog I began to search through all my unpublished drafts, and found this bit from one of our Paris shows. I

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It has been a while since my last post, but with all the running around it has been hard to take a pause. Today I finally have a few minutes to post about recent MIO sightings:1. Maison & Objet (Paris)2. New York International Gift Fair (NYIGF)We were at the M&O show for a second time and experienced an incredible show. This edition was much larger than the one in September and seemed to have a

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The work of MIO is the result of perfectly balanced collaborations and good timing. This is definitely the case of our collaboration with one of MIO's unsung heroes: Weraya Thongon or as we call her lil' View. She has been our Graphic Designer since the beginning, tirelessly making our message elegant, beautiful and clear. She has produced graphics for all our catalogs, products, instructions,

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It was a quiet evening filled with doodling and thinking about new projects. That same day I got ID Magazine in the mail filled with images of other designer’s studios. I figured I'd share a few quiet moments at MIO so I went looking for those small corners that look perfect in their organized chaos. I found a few:

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Our products are designed in a holistic way which means that packaging and shipping play an important role in the development process. Our decisions are influenced not only by cost but by the impact these decisions have. For this reason we have been re-developing some of our packaging and figuring out new ways to cut on waste and create a more user-centered experience. The first candidate for

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Businesses worldwide are starting to tackle the immense challenge posed by the current paradigms of products and consumption. They are also confronted by the difficult task of dealing with the emergence of an economy based on social, environmental and realistic financial expectations. The approaches taken by these organizations may sometimes seem divergent and even at odds with the final result.

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We have read it in magazines and newspapers, we have heard it from politicians, the tube and the web. Green is a fashionable, trend-setting cultural commodity. This has a lot of people very excited, while others worry and wonder if all of this "green" stuff will go away like it did in previous decades. Is sustainability in its current form a big fat juicy trend? And if it is a trend, what does

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MIO is now available in Europe through the newly established EU Distribution office in Cologne, Germany. This means we are able to better serve our customers with stock and service in both continents. From an environmental and design point of view, this strategy has presented some very powerful opportunities which we are gradually implementing. We want MIO to be both global and local. This means

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The “next industrial revolution” relies on the re-invention of design, “production”, “consumption” and culture. Everywhere we look we find objects, infrastructures and services that rely on others in an infinite chain of interdependence, which at the end of the line relies on natural systems and human behavior. If interdependence can generate destructive consumption patterns, interdependence

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It is clear to me that MIO needed a space to share ideas with the blogosphere. So I took it upon myself to build one. So what can you expect? We will post our ideas, thoughts and opinions at length (time permitting) and hopefully get some feedback, inspire and communicate.

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