Category Archives: Research



The Food Marketing Institute is a show blending food packaging equipment, food innovations, ingredients and plenty of people who are interested in a conversation with Capsule. We discovered a number of interesting innovations and other amusements in our wanderings. The following ... read more  

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Try this one on for fit. Make a prediction. Make it for the year 2016, Feb 29th. Yeah, the next Leap Day. Now, schedule it in a Tweet to be posted that day. What will be huge on that day, but isn't in existence today? Think Pinterest. What will our work look like? Wha... read more  

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WARNING. If you're not into radical ideas, don't read this. It may make you angry and if you start to agree with it you may be labeled a radical thinker. You've been warned. A fair time back we started to notice traditionally corporate ideology applied to government entitie... read more  

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Many years back we became friends with an influential fellow by the name of Joe Pine. He had written a book on the customer experience, The Experience Economy (April, 1999). His work had a profound influence on our design business. We found something profound in the idea th... read more  

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Josh Rubin, we've been hunting your cool for awhile now. We've enjoyed following what you do and tweeting, blogging, talking and bragging about what you identify in our global culture. We enjoy the view through "cool" shaded glasses.   Some of the items Josh shared ... read more  

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