Month: October 2010

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    Post Of The Month – September 2010 – Nominations

    OK, nominations for Post Of The Month for September are open, so please do nominate your favourite posts that were posted in that month in the comments below. As a starter, I've listed four nominations of my own – please add yours and I'll stick them all up for a vote. My starting four are:…

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    The Rise Of Talent Networks

    There's a question that's been nagging at me for a while. An itch that needed scratching if you like. So I wrote a piece for Marketing Week about it. And they've kindly allowed me to reproduce it in full here. Input is, as always, valued: When a new agency called Co: launched this month in…

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    Where Good Ideas Come From

    Steven Johnson has spent five years looking at where good ideas come from. Contrary to the widely-held concept of a lone-creative genius with a spark of sudden inspiration (The Eureka Myth), it turns out that ideas take a long time to mature, sometimes laying dormant (in the form of 'partial hunches' or half-ideas) for years.…

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    Sound Sculptures

    Gosh. More lovely work from Dentsu London (hot on the heels of iPad Light Painting), this time a collaboration with biochemist/photographer Linden Gledhill featuring 'sound sculptures' of dancing droplets of paint reacting to sound waves, for Canon printers. Beautiful. Canon Pixma: Bringing colour to life from Dentsu London on Vimeo.

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    Writing On Agile Planning

    "Brands today cannot be sustained by what in the past has been called advertising…everything a brand does that connects to the consumer is media, is brand communication. If orchestrating the art of all those media conversations isn't advertising, then perhaps the creativity of what we'll do in the future needs a new name." Lee Clow…

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