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The greatest danger
For most of us
Is not that our aim is
Too high And we miss it,
But that it is
Too low And we reach it.

” ~Michelangelo
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Tim Brown urges designers to ‘Think Big’

Tim Brown says the design profession is preoccupied with creating nifty, fashionable objects — even as pressing questions like clean water access show it has a bigger role to play. He calls for a shift to local, collaborative, participatory “design thinking.”

“One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests.”
~ John Stuart Mill
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Sir Ken Robinson on Talent and Passion

Sir Ken Robinson at Creative Company Conference in Amsterdam talks about his new book ‘The Element’. A book about discovering and applying ‘passion’. The things that drives you, motivates you, and essentially makes you valuable. Sir Ken Robinson applies this in the context of our educational system, developing and educating in talent.

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The value of your Idea is in its Context

Written by Rick van der Wal in September 2009
 

It’s a cold January morning and work traffic is trying to squirm their way through the Washington, DC Metro Station. Amidst the crowd a violinist starts to play. Out of the thousand people on their way to work only a handful responds to the tunes filling the station. If anything, they briefly turn and look at the violinist before checking their watch or getting pushed along by their mothers.

After 45 minutes, the performer has gathered 32 dollars. Most of which donated by people who didn’t stop to listen but made a contribution none the less as they walked passed the violinist. Read the rest of this article »

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Creativity, Design Thinking and How These Have To Do With Innovation

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.

“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.”
~ Matthew Moore
Cinemachange
 

Wisdom

50 of the world’s most inspiring and iconic figures over the age of 65 share their words of wisdom, covering topics such as creation, risk, progress and change. Wisdom is a multimedia exhibition that features extraordinary large-format portraits and documentary footage of interviews created by award-winning photographer and filmmaker Andrew Zuckerman.

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Say it with Kinetic Typography

Written by Rick van der Wal in September 2009
 

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). Read the rest of this article »

ArticlesCreativity

Back to work

Written by Rick van der Wal in September 2009
 

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!

Cinemachange
 

Dan Pink on motivation and creativity

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.

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    Welcome to Crinid. A website that offers refreshing insights in the process of creating great ideas (ideation). We offer insights, methods, and inspiration to amplify your creativity and manage your ideas.

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