Month: November 2010
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Creativity at the top of the World
The boys over at Camp 4 Collective continue to astonish me with their storytelling, creativity and execution. Layer on top that they’re pulling it all together on a laptop in a tent at 6,000m on the roof of Nepal and transmitting from a sat phone and they truly stand alone. Check out the trailer at…
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Jarvis on Creativity
A video from Chase Jarvis’s excellent talk on creativity to the Art Director’s Club of Denver. The hour long presentation is definitely worth a watch for Black Collar Workers anywhere.
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The New New Testament
File this under “wish I’d thought of that”, Dag Soderberg recently left a creative director post to release a version of the Bible, illustrated (and thus interpreted) with modern stock (read abstract) photography. I’m not a religious person by any means, but a chance to lend your influence to easily the world’s most well read…
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Coworking Communities
In the last 15 years, laptops and the internet have fueled a new generation of freelancers, telecommuters and entrepreneurs. Many have turned to home offices, cafes and occasionally, executive suites, while they hammer away at the next Google, the next Amazon or the next TiVo. While most love the freedom and flexibility of being on…
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How’d they do that?
Being in the image business, I’m always keeping an eye out for cutting edge work and spend a lot of time looking at other photographers’ work and new commercial campaigns coming down the pipe. Often the most breathtaking work is met with a “How’d they do that!?!?!” and the answer in reality is quite often…
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Smart Living, Smart.Space
I’m not one for urban living, I’d be left longing for greenspace that urban centers always have in short supply. But even where space is not at a premium, I wish the thrust of today’s architecture more often focused where modern design intersects with efficient use of space, and smart.space by design firm Avro | Ko…
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Upcycling living space, now in cafe form
Adam Kalkin’s Quik House format has been adapted by Illy Cafe as a temporary installation, the Illy Cafe Push Button House, in NYC’s Time Warner Center for the month of December. Formed from recycled shipping containers, modified to serve a higher purpose (hence “upcycling”), the one-off installation transforms at a push of a button to…
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Conscientious consumerism
Welcome to the FLOWmarket, a conceptual store created by Mads Hagstroem. The FLOWmarket was created to showcase “scarcity goods, imbalances in the 3 FLOW dimensions (individual, collective and environmental flows) transformed in to physical products.” Sound weird? It is, but it’s also thought-provoking and the exhibit as a whole is rather fetching. The site is…
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Morning coffee through the eyes of Monocle
I read a lot of magazines, probably too many. To the point that it’s a separate line on my Schedule C. I really enjoy British mags, there’s something about British writing that is far superior to their American counterparts. Maybe it’s the slightly wider world view, not being the world’s 500 pound gorilla. I happened…
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Creation, not consumption…
excerpted from Arena Magazine, penned by Andrew Mueller “It would be a worthwhile, and overdue, maneuver for people to disdain most things they’re encouraged to regard as fun, and experiment instead with such disregarded virtues as probity, courtesy and application. It might actually make them happy. For the wretched reality of the hedonist, invariably, is…
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More than a hotel…
I like Denmark. I like Scandinavia in general. (full disclosure: I’ve never spent a winter there, that might temper my affection) I’ll probably end up writing a lot about scandinavian design. I was in CPH this summer and stopped in on Hotel Fox for a few days. They gave 60 young artists complete creative control…