Category Archives: Thoughts

On Brackets and Mustaches: The Art of Perspective

Image via laughingsquid.com This typographic poster, “A Field Guide to Typestaches“, is a perfect and playful way to present the personality of individual fonts. It appeals to my inner type geek. And it reminds me of The Art of Looking … Continue reading

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What Do You Take From Your Coffee?

image found via designspongeonline.com Making lists is how I start most create projects and ideas. I write down at least ten ideas in ten minutes (or less), and then go from there. Lists are great for focusing. They let you … Continue reading

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How To Show Them You Really Care: Turn Off Your Phone

via maquiladoradesuenos.com Human beings, in social situations, are all about storytelling. Campfires, water coolers, and colour printers seem to support this theory. So how many times have you been hitting your stride, telling a great story, getting to the passionate … Continue reading

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Why Deviation Matters

[image via fablefolk.blogspot.com] A few years ago Bob Flynn created this entertaining exercise: see if you can guess who these comic characters are based solely on their silhouettes. As a cartoonist, he saw it as an important demonstration of form. … Continue reading

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The Jogging Chair

Sometimes irony is the best policy. As I was researching for my upcoming Creative Method and Systems presentation at NXNEi this year, and pondering how to engage with my Facebook group more, I came across this pithy quote from productivity … Continue reading

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Your Credit Card Now Makes Phone Calls (And Plays Music)

According to the blog Patently Apple, Apple Inc is already field testing technology that will turn your iPhone/iPod Touch into a credit card— a steroid enhanced credit card that will enable you to pay restaurant bills, make group payments with friends, … Continue reading

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Are Nerds Really Visitors From The Future?

Robert Scoble, an ubergeek living in San Francisco, lists 38 personal questions about technology. If you answer yes to the majority of these questions (I did), than supposedly you are from the Future. I think this is just a nicer … Continue reading

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Creativity Is Practiced Magic

The best ideas come out of the corner of our eye, the edge of our consciousness, in a flash. They are the result of misdirection and random collisions, not a grinding corporate onslaught. And yet we waste billions of dollars … Continue reading

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The Delicate Art of Telling The Client They’re Wrong

via ideacouture.com Patrick Glinski (@glinskiii on Twitter) of Idea Couture, breaks down the repercussions of changing vs not changing a client brief. I love this simple matrix, showing the results as binary. If you always do exactly what is asked … Continue reading

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Chatroulette Explained

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