This interesting presentation explores the relation between the elements of creativity (in this context: art, culture, and the ability to creative original ideas), Design Thinking and how they relate to Innovation. Continue reading »

When almost any fact, no matter how obscure, can be dug up within seconds through Google and Wikipedia, there is less value attached to the “mere” storage and retrieval of knowledge. What becomes important is how you use it – the internet age rewards creativity.

A picture speaks a thousand words, or so the old saying goes. But add animation to the mix, and some cleaver use of typography, and the scales might tip back in favour of words again.

With the help of design and animation the typography itself tells the story. It amplifies the emotions often hidden behind words (especially the written ones) and creates this compelling way of conveying meaning behind words. Most if not all are done using the Adobe program After Effects which requires experience and skill, but the way fonts (fontsize) and proximity are used could be of great inspiration to anyone trying to supercharge their ideas with emotion and immersion.

I’ve listed a dozen of the most impressive examples below. See for yourself how they reveal, amplify and convey emotion through typography (turn of your sound if you really want to grasp the concept instead of just the creative idea). Continue reading »

The days are getting shorter and the weather seems to be getting worse again in this part of the world. This can only mean one thing: Vacation is over and it’s back to work!

And new work at that, as I’ve switched jobs over the past two months. I’m now part of a great, creative team at Talmon B_Connected, responsible for creative concepts involving one my big passions: Storytelling.

I do apologize for the complete lack of updates over the past 2 months. It’s said that after 21 days one learns a habit, and just as easily as I’d had learned to (re)search interesting material, and more importantly for this blog – write about – it it had become undone during my vacation.

Fortunately I did not shed all good habits during this vacation and my ‘idea log‘ and email box are brimming with links, thoughts, ideas and concepts. I’m currently processing these and plan to return to our regular schedule of updates as of this moment.

I hope you had a wonderful, inspirational vacation as well and keep an eye on our feed for our upcoming updates!

Career analyst Dan Pink examines the puzzle of motivation, starting with a fact that social scientists know but most managers don’t: Traditional rewards aren’t always as effective as we think. Listen for illuminating stories — and maybe, a way forward.

Entrepreneur, Twitter star, and former Apple software evangelist Guy Kawasaki highlights 10 keypoints for the creation of meaning, innovation, and revenue at the Cisco Conference. Via the Cisco Blog.

In this talk from 2003 at the TED conference, design critic Don Norman turns his incisive eye toward beauty, fun, pleasure and emotion. He looks at design that makes people happy, and the relationship between happiness and creativity.