![]() ![]() (1) Kudos to Knoed Creative, the host and operators of CreativeMornings/Chicago, in selecting speakers-for each month-to share their perspective. A serial entrepreneur and seasoned executive, Wilson spent the last seven years as the former VP of Partnerships and Business Development at Chicago-based Threadless. as VP of Strategic Partnerships and Business Development. Though minimizing has its limits, minimizing to achieve moments of depth is a worthwhile activity that Wilson encourages to give form and function to, with the potential by-product of value. Wilson will also focus on driving growth and revenues at MINIMAL Inc. Tall orders, but intuitively prescribed as life gathers more excess (with leaks of unintended consequences) faster than it attains the means to sensibly cope with it. In tandem, Wilson offered a mini checklist pushing the minimal: ![]() Three inches lower than conventional seating and with a more relaxed posture, the SW1 Lounge is a. With time, perhaps making something worthwhile feeds delusion than clarity. This chair will change the way you think about meetings. With gap, perhaps this doesn’t necessarily need to be filled. With indecision, perhaps the flexibility of choice produces a crippling effect instead of a liberating one. With risk, perhaps it can be an empowering force. With complexity, perhaps the urge to simplify restrains understanding and usage rather than enabling them. ![]() Regarding geek factor, perhaps catering to a savvy and sophisticated audience is counterintuitive, and thereby, dismissive of those prematurely judged as artless. (This is on top of the fact that there are separate remote controls, per piece of hardware, connected to the TV set.) The common (and convoluted) television remote control can serve as an obvious indicator for a larger situation that is permanent, and consistently desperate for an attitude refocused on the minimal.įrom the sprawl of chaos, Wilson identified six areas for an intervention of minimal-minded forethought and execution: geek factor, complexity, risk, indecision, gap, and time. One residual example: my Mother complains that the remote control has too many buttons, resulting in accidentally summoning a display mode not welcomed. Human-made products, services, systems can be described as microcosms of chaos. The desire to minimize is counterbalanced by the reality of chaos, fed by the impulse to keep adding more stuff. Beyond the firm itself, through work on his Lunatik product line and projects with clients like the World Wildlife Fund and Nike, Wilson has epitomized this quality in both his personal work and professional studio. the appointment of Scott Wilson to the new role of Chief Experience Officer. Wilson has also been profiled in dozens of magazines including ID magazine’s Top 40, Fast Company’s Masters of Design, Details Magazine and TIME magazine’s Style+Design 100.When CreativeMornings announced their monthly theme for June 2014 as Minimal, Scott Wilson, Creative Director and Founder of MINIMAL, was a clear choice (1) to speak at the Chicago chapter’s thirty-first gathering. View Minimal (location in Illinois, United States, revenue. Wilson’s work has been recognized with over 50 international design awards in the last decade and has been exhibited internationally at venues including the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Triennial, MoMA, MCA and Chicago Art Institute. The Kickstarter experiment aligned perfectly with MINIMAL’s goal of pushing the boundaries, empowering design and enabling news way of engaging the community. (MNML), an industry-leading innovation, product development and brand incubation firm. In 2007, they became the Founder + CEO/CCO of MINIMAL Inc. This studio experiment raised nearly $1million in its 30-day pledge period, making it the highest funded project in Kickstarter history and inspiring designers and entrepreneurs all over the world. Scott began their career in 2005 as the Founder of Ooba. One phenomenal example of this vision is Wilson’s TikTok + LunaTik Multi-Touch Kits for the iPod Nano, which have seen unprecedented success and support through online crowd funding platform. This vision enhances MINIMAL’s already unique position in the product development world in consistently delivering new disruptive products and brands to market that challenge existing paradigms while constantly looking for the next consumer connection. His output was minimal compared with other character stars, but he remained in the quality ranks nevertheless, mixing his standard penchant for darker movies. Over his 20-year career, he has led design organizations such as IDEO, Thomson Consumer Electronics, Fortune Brands, and Motorola and created some of the world’s most recognized consumer design icons.įounded in 2007, his vision for MINIMAL has been to create a new hybrid design studio that combines his interests in consulting for design-centric Fortune 500 brands and his intense passion for self-manufacturing and entrepreneurial ventures. Scott Wilson, founder of MINIMAL, is an accomplished designer and former global creative director at Nike. ![]()
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