December 2009
31 posts
the path to disruptive innovation
This will by far be the easiest blog post that I have done for 2009… The Path to Disruptive Innovation… There isn’t one! This has to be one of the biggest mistakes Disruptors can make when dealing with the idea of disruptive innovation. There is no 12 step system to disruptive innovation, there is NO path. Disruption, truly authentic and powerful disruption, happens when you GET...
citizen reel ideas and concepts
Over the last few days I have been tossing around a brand idea called “Citizen Reel”. I am wanting to explore the idea of immediate information, real viewpoints, from real people, in real time. Combining live streaming, the instantaneous and rapid distribution of content on platforms like Plurk and Twitter, and video snippets on platforms like YouTube and Tweet Reel. The goal, a well...
citizen reel branding 2010
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citizen reel: branding concepts 2010
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the news is about to get interesting...
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oss 244: dune contract
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fox 31 wfxl: interactive brand concept 2010
Project: Branding (concept) Client: [internal] FOX 31 WFXL - Albany, GA Posted via email from BEYOND PRETTY THINGS | Comment »
stuntman mike: hell on wheels
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nice
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today
Today, I have more understanding than I did yesterday, more love than months gone past and more grace to handle it all. I am focused on digging deeper into the things that I do not know, and my desire to connect and be connect with resonate loudly within the earth, so in this endeavor I am successful. I am only one of many, but my part in this amazing thing called “life” is set before...
disruptors and mousetrap builders
I carry an iPhone by Apple. It’s a very clever and useful device. IN FACT, if I had the “opportunity” to carry any other device I really don’t believe that I would. I can remember when I first decided to leave my first cellular provider, and go with AT&T so that I could carry the iPhone. The decision was made based on the idea that the iPhone was actually two devices...
stuntman mike
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a house divided.
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TED: alexis ohanian: how to make a splash in...
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project 365: archiving history: google
Absolutely amazing visualization - Complete Project: http://tr.im/project365 Posted via email from BEYOND PRETTY THINGS | Comment »
divine design
Photographer: Bjørnar G. Hansen Posted via email from BEYOND PRETTY THINGS | Comment »
the hardest design projects
“The most challenging and difficult design projects are often the simplest.” V.A. Hunt 1972™ Posted via email from BEYOND PRETTY THINGS | Comment »
show me...
“Show me a problem, a serious problem like world hunger, water, or energy and I will show you a design project …” ~ V.A. Hunt 1972™ #beyondprettythings Posted via email from BEYOND PRETTY THINGS | Comment »
keys to staying inspired
I have read countless articles about getting out of the “creative funk” (if you can call it that). I have read even MORE articles on ways to “stay” creative, as if genuine, authentic creativity is something that just randomly comes and goes. I am one to believe that creativity, in the truly creative, is something that is as constant as breathing. AND I am not sure about...
styrofoam, motherships, prototypes and budgets
The last two days have been quite revealing to me. In the past 48 hours I have had two conversations about design, and creativity that have spawned memories that I have always had, however; never expressed until now. What’s interesting - is that as I look at these experiences, I am realizing the impact they have had in my life… Your life. Styrofoam, motherships, prototypes and budgets...
crayons and coloring books
I can clearly remember refining my ideas about design when I was about 8 or 9 years old. My mother would buy me coloring books (lots of them) and should would buy me crayons (lots of those too) and I would sit in my room for HOURS on end, tracing images (because I though that it looked “clean” when I did that) and coloring pictures in the coloring books. For HOURS I would do...
pearl s. buck: the creative mind
“The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: A human creature born abnormally, inhumanly sensitive. To him…a touch is a blow,a sound is a noise, a misfortune is a tragedy, a joy is an ecstasy, a friend is a lover, a lover is a god, and failure is death. Add to this cruelly delicate organism the overpowering necessity to create, create, create - so that without the creating of...
purpose and calling are not what you find... they...
A big part of what I do deals with working with people. When designing a system, a brand or a new product or service, it’s imperative that we dig our way down to the ethos of the organization, BUT more importantly, it’s imperative that we dig down to the ethos of the people involved within the organization OR at least the key individuals that have a direct effect on the results and...
project: weather franchise branding concept: wfxl...
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TED: erik hersman on reporting crisis via texting
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TED: thulasiraj ravilla: how low-cost eye care can...
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compelling idea: tom peters
“Design is not what you like… It’s what you love.” ~ Tom Peters Posted via email from DESIGN THINKING | Comment »
we can no longer ignore the big design problems
As I dig deeper and deeper into the idea of “designing bigger”, I continue to run across issues dealing with health care. Though the looming policies and architectural challenges continue to mount, I really feel that the emergence of design as a holistic practice will help add some balance to the problems at hand. In this recent article by Sean Hughes, Senior Design Director - Philips...
Champion Sound - 12th edition
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Designers: different types, different functions,...
From time to time people ask me what I do, and with absolute confidence I say … Design. I say it with confidence because I have been a Designer for over 17 years of my life. The single most puzzling part of it all to me however; is though design is all around us, many of us do not know the differences between a graphic designer and an experience designer, an industrial designer and a...
sugru: the freedom to hack
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