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Just as Daniel Pink's A Whole New Mind was making us comfortable that design and creative skills were our protection against globalization, along comes Bruce Nussbaum in BusinessWeek with this on design firms in India. Guess the right-brain revolution isn't gonna be televised.

Design outsourcing may be big--think India.

Design outsourcing is probably one of the big things to happen over the horizon. U.S. corporations might want to take a look at a number of Indian design consultancies that appear to do great work. India's National Institute of Design graduates hundreds of highly trained designers a year. India has a vast manufacturing infrastructure in place--something US and European and Japanese companies are discovering. And design firms such as Elephant Design and Lopez do good work. Outsourcing design to India is going to be big.