The creative person is both more primitive and more cultivated, more destructive, a lot madder and a lot saner, than the average person.
” ~Frank BarronWe often talk about Great Ideas here. Great Ideas create relevant solutions that go beyond expectations. But not every Great Idea finds a ‘home’, in fact, the basic idea (what does it do and what is in it for me) is often just not enough to get it from the drawing boards into development.
The 6 principles of Great Ideas show the key qualities of ideas made to survive. Ideas that get adopted and cared for by your consumers, clients and/or key decision makers. Read the rest of this article »
Inspirational video on how we are changing as individuals, and the effect this will have on business as we know it through ‘mass innovation’.
Not so long ago, Tim Brown recounts, designers belonged to a ‘priesthood.’ Given an assignment, a designer would disappear into a back room, ‘bring the result out under a black sheet and present it to the client.’ Brown and his colleagues at IDEO, the company that brought us the first Apple Macintosh mouse, couldn’t have [...]
A strange man builds a world using holographic tools for the woman he loves.
This award winning short was created by filmmaker Bruce Branit, widely known as the co-creator of ‘405′. World Builder was shot in a single day followed by about 2 years of post production. Branit is the owner of Branit VFX based in [...]
With the development of the BMW GINA Light Visionary Model the BMW Group presents trendsetting solutions. Chris Bangle gives us a first impression of the ideas behind the process of sculpturing an experimental study. This is the story behind this innovation!
A strong, convincing speech by best selling author Elizabeth Gilbert about giving creativity back to the spirits, the muses or genius, and remove some of the disabling expectations that come with being an artist.
Thanks you @Mathijs1988 for alerting me of this inspiring presentation!
The world is changing at such rapid pace. We have entered a world where reality is no longer real, global institutions are going bust and CEO’s are barely managing, let alone leading us through this change. However, opportunity is great and with this new world comes a new ethic of openness, sharing and collaboration.
The new [...]
I apologize in advance for this post reads a little bit like a ‘rant on ‘the internet’. It’s also a little more ‘tech-talk’ than usual on Crinid. Proceed with caution, you’ve been warned 
The internet is a place of niches. Millions of ‘me’ niches exist on blogs, social networks. Personalized search, personalized ads, personalized content, all becoming part of our ‘digital DNA’. And it’s great, right? We get more of what we want now that our profile is slowly becoming our niche?
No more annoying spam and other advertisements, just ‘infomercials’ – advertisements I’d want to see because they are relevant to my interests. And of course, therefor is more likely to make me click/buy/tell someone else about it. It’s this ‘noble’ thought that ignited the need for our data to be collected, stored and used to build our profile, and I’m not just talking about our Facebook account. Read the rest of this article »
Paperbeatsinternet.com is an analog social networking for artists, developed by GrandCreative and Graham Roumieu for the New Directions in Ocutoral Design class at the Ontario College of Art and Design. The site is a digital home for entries that focus on exploring the use and relationship between hand-rendered type and images. The work is a dialogue between students and invited guests.
Design is no longer just the aesthetics of things – the ‘how things look’. Design can be used to define vision, communicate your mission, training and guiding employees and much much more processes within any organization. Design is about interaction, connection humans to theory, abstracts or technology. The book ‘Design Management’ by Kathryn Best explores how to employ the power of design in every day processes of management an creative development of your company.
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Concept contest to build a Heineken 3.0 website, building their brand in the 'party scene'.
Small booklet that will be a recource for managing, facilitating and participating in a Brainstorm.
A forum/social part of the website used for idea notations, development and discussion.
My second creativity, inspiration and ideation lecture and workshop for the School of Applied sciences in Rotterdam
