How to have more fun at work (if you have windows in your office)

by on August 23, 2011 in Thoughts

This story out of Paris is fantastic: bored and creative (or just creative!) office workers in downtown Paris must have ransacked the office supply room and started making Post-IT art on the windows. Neighboring offices took the challenge and responded and now there are Post-IT art in windows all over Paris. Could this become a world wide trend? There is a Facebook page with pictures from around Paris (and other European cities) with some great, creative windows.

Sure wish we had neighbors across our studio. Maybe the birds would enjoy a little art show?

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The Creative Beast Visualizes The Best Question in the World

by on November 8, 2010 in From the WWW

If you haven’t discovered Betsy Streeter yet – you’ve missed out. She has a great way of visualizing the importance of staying in touch with your inner creative beast – and not forget to stay creative. And oh, how I wish I could draw stick figures like her! 
When the going gets tough and I spend way too much time creating file after file on my computer – I have a little printed drawing by her next to my screen and it reminds me to stand up, shake loose, erase the whiteboard from unimportant stuff and draw stick figures for awhile and keep my own creative beast happy. 
Besty Streeter has entered in Slideshare’s World’s Best Presentation Contest – and it’s one of my favorites in this year’s competition. Ask yourself the best question in the world “What would happen if…?”! 
Follow Betsy Streeter on Twitter to get a flow of great inspiration in your feed: @betsystreeter. And don’t forget to let your creative beast out! 

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The relationship between creativity and play | Tim Brown

by on September 23, 2010 in From the WWW

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Tim Brown, CEO of the design and innovation firm IDEA, talked in 2008 about creativity and play at the 2008 Serious Play conference, presented at TED.com. If you haven’t seen this – grab a cup of tea or coffee and spend 27 minutes and tune in and get reminded about the relationship between creative thinking and play.

One of the most important passages in his speech is the one about finding a trusted environemnt for creative thinking compared to how kids crate:

“Kids have no embarrasment at all – they just quite happily show their masterpiece to whoever wants to look at it. But as they learn to become adults, they become much more sensitive to the opinions of others, and they lose that freedom and they do start to become embarresed. And in studies of kids playing, it’s been shown time after time, that kids who feel secure, who are in a kid of trusted environemt, they’re the ones that feel most free to play.”

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The visual oxymoron | What happens when your words say one thing but your graphics say something else

by on September 22, 2010 in From the WWW

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BAmagazine.com (@bamagazine on Twitter) has created a YouTubeChannel with short, informative videos. I especially like this one – The Visual Oxymoron – what happens when your words say one thing but your graphics say something else…

Red for a tooth – naah… bad idea!

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Indexed » So shift the tides.

by on August 15, 2010 in From the WWW

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Jessica Hagy’s fantastic blog www.thisisindex.com is full of great visual thoughts. After the first week of elementary school – this index card feels way to current…

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David Carson on design + discovery

by on August 15, 2010 in From the WWW

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Sociologist and surfer-turned-designer David Carson walks through a fun and interesting slide deck of pictures from the world around us and from his work – talking about design and it’s meaning.

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