Category: inspiration
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Good For Nothing
I must admit, the idea of doing a kind of comms hack-day where developers got paired with comms specialists to work on a brief and actually produce something, like a web or mobile app, has been knocking around my head for a good while – inspired, I think, by some of the tech entrepreneur types…
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Changing Paradigms
I once saw Sir Ken Robinson talk live about his view of the need to change education paradigms. It was the best talk I'd ever seen. And it remains so to this day. If, by some freak of nature, you haven't seen his two TED talks on how schools kill creativity and on bringing on…
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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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Wiedenisms
Rules we live by: Advertising is a weapon; be careful where you point itCreativity comes out both endsDon't act bigDon't say it, be itDo something people will loveFail harderFind people who make you betterGet rid of the crap.Hire wrong.Independence is everythingLet goNo sharp stuffPatience and progress are f*cking hardShut up when someone's talkingStay foolish.The work…
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iPad Light Painting
This is way cool. A collaboration between Dentsu London and Berg on Making Future Magic. And Beeker worked on it. And you can read more about it here and here. Lovely. Making Future Magic: iPad light painting from Dentsu London on Vimeo.
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Dear Japan
Mesmorising memoir of Japan, shot (believe it or not) with a Canon Eos 7D digital SLR. Dear Japan from Matthew Brown on Vimeo. HT
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Colouring Between The Lines
When children first start to draw we teach them to colour in between the lines. We reward accuracy rather than interpretation. Neatness, not expression. This says a lot about our own predispositions. In this short but insightful interview, Seth Godin talks about an education system characterised by an industrial model from an industrial era. Built…
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Joining The Bucket Brigade
So Bud Caddell, Strategy Director at Victors & Spoils, is writing a book. And as you may already know, is crowd-sourcing the funding through Kickstarter to enable him the time to write it. And I've decided to invest and support it (not my first investment on Kickstarter) and have joined his Editorial Board. Seems…