February 2010
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WatchSchools Kill Creativity
“If you’re not prepared to be wrong you’ll never come up with anything original.” - Sir Ken Robinson. As children we are never frightened of creatively exploring at the risk of being wrong, but we grow older our education system and culture aid in the unlearning of creativity and help children minimize the risk of being wrong.
Sir Ken Robinson...
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“Our opportunity, as designers, is to learn how to handle the complexity, rather...”
– Tim Parsey
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WatchNike Human Chain
Everybody gets knocked down, how quick are you going to get up? Excellent spot for Nike by agency Wieden+Kennedy, Portland, directed by Brian Beletic at Smuggler, and visual effects by MassMarket.
It especially interesting to notice that Nike is representing sports outside of their normal realm—MMA, bmx, and bull riding.
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WatchDesign is Our Business
In this lecture Blair Enns challenges design firms to change the way that they view their business, services they provide and the way they position themselves. You are either a producer firm, moving with the whims of the client and fulfilling their requests, or you are an expert firm, diagnosing, prescribing, and leading your client, giving them the strength to move...
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“By not having the imagination to imagine what the content “might”...”
– —Tom Smith
Designer and developer (from I hate Lorem Ipsum and Lorem Ipsum Users). Via Getting Real
Additional related content—Use Real Content to Judge a Design
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Watch“Rusty Nails” by Moderate
Lately I have been drawn to creative executions that use simple and minimal elements to tell a story. Design collective PFADFINDEREI based in Berlin, Germany used a combination of fabric, wind, well placed lights, dancers and illustrations for German music artist Moderate.
PFADFINDEREI’s other work is fantastic—their commissioned art installation for...
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“I’m of the opinion that the advertising agency, in its current form, has a...”
– - Bud Caddell
Who says the future needs an advertising agency?
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“Cognitive fluency is simply a measure of how easy it is to think about...”
– Cognitive Fluency—Easy = True
Although some of the results of cognitive fluency studies are somewhat as predicted, the studies have also produced interesting findings around the disfluency of a product, message, concept or design. Often by creating an element of disfluency in marketing a product,...
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WatchMacro Kingdom
Shot with the extreme macro Canon MP-E 65mm lens and the 5D Mark II body
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“If you find yourself in the same business you were in ten years ago, you’ll soon...”
– -Unnamed Blackcoffee Client
Change is Inevitable. Mark Gallagher & Laura Savard discuss the importance of evolution in business and how Nokia, Wrigley, Tiffany & Co., and Hasbro look vastly different today.
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