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“Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.”
Charles Mingus
The Perfect Pour via images.fastcompany.com
“A striking number of us (that is, we who have yet to become who we are) are apt, in our private moments, to express our understanding of how the world could be altered for the better by picturing to ourselves various business we would like to start… The pleasing and all-consuming daydreams appear to spring from those very same aspects of our personalities which led us as children to delight in running a grocery store out of a corner of the kitchen or to open a hotel in a cardboard box in the garden- as though there was some innate and enduring human impulse to lend entrepreneurial form to certain of our deeply held enthusiasms and insights.
- Alain de Botton. The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work.
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cassette tape portraiture. via Cool Hunting
“My advice is simple: Pick something. Do it with all your heart. If you can’t keep your heart in it, do something else. Repeat. Few people have the courage to do this, even for a year, much less a lifetime. But my suspicion is if you ask passionate people how they make choices, this is what you’ll hear.”
“Great ads solve advertising problems. Great ad agencies solve business problems.”
“The task is not so much to see what no one yet has seen, but to think what no body yet has thought about that which everyone sees.”
“Technology is a big destroyer of emotion and truth. Technology doesn’t do anything for creativity. Yeah it makes things easier, you can get home sooner, but it doesn’t make you a more creative person. That’s the disease you have to fight in any creative field: ease of use.”
Design Synthesis - http://www.slideshare.net/frogdesign/design-synthesis
Innovation vs. Social Innovation: a competitive end-game vs. a collaborative end-game
What are the aims of socially-driven innovation?
Honda - Failure: The Secret to Success
Part Three
Part Two
Inside Ideo - Designing the Shopping Cart
What is design strategy?
Blitzen Trapper - Furr. I just can’t get enough ;)
“Rather than focusing on social media shouldn’t we be focusing on social ideas? Let’s stop obsessing about social media and worry instead about what’s important. While social media channels fade in and out of social significance, social ideas are timeless in their power.
It means ideas that are inherently open, generous and want to include you. It means developing communication that lets you join the dots and complete the story rather than telling you what to do (in the same way at every point of contact). It means thinking about what it is that people like to do and working back from there to figure out what it is we can do as a brand to be useful, helpful or entertaining rather than starting from what we think first.
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Dan Barber’s fabulous TED talk on Spanish farmer Edouardo Sousa’s sustainability practices surrounding foie gras.
In both advertising and experience design: we’re in the business of influencing behaviour (and beliefs).
