Month: June 2011
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Google Firestarters 2, Visualised
The rather talented folk at Scriberia created an amazing visual record of our second Google Firestarters event on Design Thinking In Planning. It takes some serious skill to have captured Tom and John's rapid-fire, broad-ranging talks in such a detailed and illustrative […]
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Creative Futures
I agree with the sentiment expressed in this post that it's a nonsense to suggest that The Wilderness Downtown shouldn't be eligible to compete for a lion at Cannes (it ended up taking home a Cyber Grand Prix). I put out a […]
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VW Dark Side
Whichever side you're on there's a lot to admire about this campaign from Greenpeace. A smart subversion of the Star Wars theme that VW capitalised on with the well-known (and liked) ad The Force. This morning saw some high profile poster sites […]
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Happy Birthday Fish Food
I've been compiling and sending out a weekly newsletter for exactly a year now. It's been quite an investment of time but it's been fun doing it, the list has grown quickly and best of all people seem to have got a […]
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#Firestarters 2: Design Thinking In Planning – The Event
Might Design Thinking, instrumental in bringing human-centred design principles to innovation processes, change the practice of planning? Is it relevant? These were the questions tackled in the latest Firestarters event – part of the series I'm curating for Google to facilitate different […]
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Predicting The Present
An interesting thought as part of the whole agile thing, is about how competitive advantage will increasingly come from not only being able to make an informed prognosis of the future, but an informed prediction of the present. Much market intelligence, and […]
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Sunday Sermon
Ken Robinson on Passion from The School of Life on Vimeo. I saw Sir Ken Robinson talk about this in person a couple of years ago and it was one of the best talks I've ever been to. Sir Ken believes that […]
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The Perfect Community
I loved this short film that asked one simple question: "What Does 'Community' Mean To You?". As Maria points out there are some (perhaps expected) universal needs that seem to emerge including proximity and convenience, face to face interaction but the over-riding […]
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Stubborn On Vision, Flexible On Details
"A big piece of the story we tell ourselves about who we are, is that we are willing to invent. We are willing to think long-term. We start with the customer and work backwards. And, very importantly, we are willing to be […]
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The Email Addiction
Chris Anderson (the founder of TED, not the Editor of US Wired) has launched an appeal to help create an Email charter in an effort to find a solution to email overload. His point is a simple one. We're drowning in […]