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Oxymoronic Creative Hodgepodge

Thursday, December 31, 2009

Once hearing “creative process”, my thoughts adhere to all those linearly challenged creative geniuses who can barely stay on-task 30 minutes unless gripped by that enigmatic zone frequently termed flow. Followed by an internal chuckle, this thought streams with ease to my bullet-pointed corporate process experiences so often responsible for stifling originality. From there, I quickly drift to George Carlin’s famous oxymoron comedy bit, or Seinfeld’s original observation about the words “head” and “cheese”. Similarly, it’s not apparent that the words “creative” and “process” should ever be next to each other for any reason.

CrowdSpring Design – good, bad, or ugly

Monday, August 31, 2009

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CrowdSpring.com is a site that connects crowdsourced design projects with those who are willing to do the work on spec. - which means, do the work with no guarantee of payment. In fact, the odds are that you won't see any money at all. Crowd Spring is no healthier to the Design industry than iStock Photo is to the professional photo industry but it's a fairly ingenious way to harvest the long tail of design. Crowd sourcing has become the public option for media services. PTS in no way endorses CrowdSpring; we're officially neutral but welcome all comments.

The Enemy of Good

Friday, June 19, 2009

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During my four long corporate years, the phrase, “perfection is the enemy of good” used to rub me the wrong way for no apparent reason. I grasp the theory: Keep striving for perfect and you will never deliver good; you’ll be waiting in purgatory for perfect to materialize. For me, this was never a very satisfying concept.