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What Is Design?

Tuesday, June 22, 2010

Something well designed is compelling; we are drawn to its efficiency, effectiveness, elegance, beauty, and often it’s cleverness and humor. You’re a designer when you arrange your clothes in an order that gets you out the door faster in the morning, or when you plan a route to the office. Then why is “design thinking” [...]

A Scarcity of Surprises is the Result of Abundance

Tuesday, May 18, 2010

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In general, the scarcity shift is away from artifacts and toward process. Can you establish the culture that creates, the moment worth photographing, the performance that affects, or the product that markets itself?

Creative Distraction: Buggy Whip Makers Were in the Motivation Business

Thursday, May 13, 2010

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If you’re a creativity supplier be very proud of your steady revenue in the face of change. Either you’re a positioning genius in an unstable market or it just may be the quiet before a bigger storm.

Pespi Refresh: good cause but what’s missing?

Sunday, February 28, 2010

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Pepsi uses the internet to field ideas and award favorites monthly with large sums of cash to finance a cause. Excellent. OK – that said, let me risk more by sounding overly cynical by asking about statistics regarding ROI for cause marketing. Here's a better idea.