*UPDATE March 30: THE VENUE CHANGED TO CAFE COLORS: 〒530-0015 大阪市北区中崎町西2丁目* Tuukka Toivonen and Mikako Ichimura visited OpenCoffee Osaka last Sunday where they told us about Kansai RISE. Here’s the info: 昨日はありがとうございました！早速ですが、社会起業・イノベーションに関心を持たれるメンバーに（昨日もアナウンスしたが）知らせがあります。今週の日曜日（４月１日１９時３０分〜２１時３０分）に梅田でアツイ集まりが行われます。実際に起業している方々、研究者やこれから関わりたいいろんな分野のエネリギッシュな人約１０人〜２０人が参加します。目的は情報交換・アクションにつながるネットワーキング・SE分野の関西における強化です。このイベントの仮名は「関西RISE」だが、それはどんな中身にするかは皆さんに日曜日にアイディアを聞かせてもらいます。僕自身のささやかな提案は、RESPOND – INNOVATE – SUSTAIN – ENTERPRISE、です：） 追伸　Kansai RISEのFacebookページ、そしてウェブサイトを一緒に作りたいボランティアを募集しています。是非助けてください〜　IT・social mediaの力を120%借り手これからの集まりやプロジェクトを成功させたいと思います！ Our first “KANSAI RISE” gathering – meant for those interested or involved in social...

As the Christmas season is approaching the Finnish industrial designer Juho Viitasalo will be presenting about the branding of modern Santa Claus. Have you ever asked yourself  ’what is the brand experience of Santa?’. Or ‘How does Santa rank up to other corporate brands’? Than this presentation is a must for you. In addition Juho...

December 3 Ruby/Rails has its 52nd workshop. Since the workshops are aimed at beginner, this edition is particularly useful to people with less experience in writing Ruby. On the planning are a talk about JQuery (30 minutes) and an introduction to Ruby for beginners (90 minutes). During Ruby/Rails a hackathon is taking place in Nipponbashi....

Interface design on websites and in applications is an important aspect in the user experience. Unfortunately, often not enough attention is spent on this aspect. Designers and developers should create their applications with the end user in mind. Working in this manner does not only affect the end product but the whole development process Rin...

The 10th Designers´ Salon is organized by JIDA, the Japanese Industrial Designers´ Association which is part of the ICSID.