May 2012
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Take a look, →
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visual searching →
humans have always been hunter/gatherers. now it’s going to get even easier….
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Are You Learning as Fast as the World Is Changing? →
Bill Taylor writes in the Harvard Business Review about the importance of seeing things through new eyes if you want to be innovative.
/Sarah
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erasure poetry →
melaniraeschultz:
When I was studying poetry I would often sit for hours and think about “my voice.” Had I found it yet? How would I know when I did find it? Would it tell me? My teacher suggested I try erasure poetry – the basic concept of this being the altering of an existing text to form a new one. At first I thought it was a poser way to “write” a poem. I mean, really, I wasn’t coming up...
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Map of Life →
Demo version of a wonderful idea by a group of biodiversity experts to map out the different species. Made me think about ways to map out or visualise other environmental issues and production/manufacturing routes and processes.
/Sarah
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Watchmotion design can add interest and impact to graphic design and storytelling. here’s a good primer that you can view by chapter.
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Watchthis whimsical stop-motion film shows how wooden balancing blocks are made. it’s really engaging; no words needed!
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Living with design: try before you buy →
Dutch design shop Droog has come up with a sweet idea to extend the lure of living with well-designed objects to the tourist/business trip market.
Droog for Rent is a studio apartment, sleeping two, above an art gallery in central Gent. The apartment is zoned into areas including what they call a “restaurant”, “lobby”, “gym” and a “library” all...
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milan 2012 design trends →
a video by monocle on furniture design trends. there’s less of an emphasis on designer as celebrity; more of a focus on manufacturing, materials and process; a search for values expressed through the object, like honesty, transparency and simplicity: what are the impacts of the piece, what are the materials, where was it made, how was it made?
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creating a culture of innovation, →
we all talk about being innovative but what does that look like in practice? it starts with recognizing that innovation is sometimes disruptive and impractical…and that’s a good thing.
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pull marketing vs. push marketing →
“How can you shift from push marketing to pull marketing and create your own social gravity? With three basic steps: purpose provides the “Why,” platforms offer the “What” and Partners create the “How.”
—Mark Bonchek
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the evolution of the digital landscape →
First there was Web 1.0, then Web 2.0, but Eric Jackson writes in Forbes that we won’t be seeing a Web 3.0 because Web will be dead by then. In other words, don’t buy stock in Facebook.
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A tale of two Toyotas
Over in the UK last autumn, Toyota decided that the new Yaris was a car for 20-something smartypants. Its TV campaign with cartoon rappers and teenagers in underground carparks soon smashed its way onto my personal all-time top five annoying adverts. OK, so I’m not 20-something and I don’t wear synthetic fibres or like comedy street-rhymes. Maybe if you are and you do, this car’s...
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Read a book, give a book.
We Give Books is an online reading resource for families and kids that donates one book for every book read via the website. Earlier this month they reached the one million milestone. It’s not only a solid idea, it’s a smart brand initiative and the site is super easy to use too. You choose a cause to donate towards, search by age range (0-teens) and/or author and save your books in...
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group think: a critique →
melaniraeschultz:
“…brainstorming sessions are one of the worst possible ways to stimulate creativity.”
Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about the way we work. A few themes that re-emerge frequently are our struggles to find uninterrupted time, feeding our creativity, and developing our skills. As a person who needs to be and enjoys being left alone for long periods of time in order to think,...
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Coke is it? (aka Don't be a Karen)
The thought of someone drinking 10 litres of Coca-Cola a day might make you feel queasy, sadly the woman in question died. Sugar addict, almost certainly. But her preference for a brand also marks her as something of a Coke superfan.
This FearLess blog entry is about Coke’s response to her death, or more precisely the spokesperson who delivered Coke’s response. Like Natasha’s...
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Cowbird - like Pinterest for storytelling →
Cowbird is a social networking site that is devoted to storytelling. The idea is to create a kind of participative journalism based on simple human stories that can be built up through words and pictures. It’s elegantly designed, simple to get, with a neat idea behind the name. If you’re interested to find out what that idea is, you’re just going to have to go to the site to find out…
Via...
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Rethink what you think you know
Konstantin Datz has redesigned the regular Rubik’s Cube for blind. The Cube is embossed with Braille across the six faces reading the words: red, blue, green, yellow, white and pink.
/Sarah
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DogEar
DogEar is a brilliant idea by a couple of people at Fallon: a website of writing and drawing by readers, which becomes a printed magazine.
When they get to 30 submissions, they choose the best 10 and put them in the printed magazine.
Via Mike Reed at Reed Words
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“And yet we use the diaeresis for the same reason that we use the hyphen: to keep...”
– Mary Norris, The New Yorker
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A little about The New Yorker's style guide →
An insight into the peculiarities of an American publishing grande dame.
/Sarah
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agencies ditch blogs →
Thought this would be a good article to kick things off with…
