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CreativityCentral (Marty Baker)
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A portal to innovative thinking, ideation and brainstorming tools and techniques.
- Added on: Aug 22nd, 2008
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Author: marty baker
- Listed in: Innovation Marketing
- Tags: ideas innovation creativity
Recent Posts
Ideabook with Voices. Explorations in creativity.
Ten years ago, I discovered a gem of book. It's called Sketchbook with Voices. It was a collaboration of Eric Fischl and Jerry Saltz. The premise was to ask a variety of artists "What's the best assignment you can give an art studen...
What we know. What we don’t know. What we don’t want to know.
Perhaps to have a hernia to thank. In 1942, Eric Hoffer attempted to enlist in the armed forces in San Francisco was rejected because of a hernia. A former migratory worker and longshoreman, Hoffer received laudatory notices in 1951 for his bo...
Creativity; Or, lessons from duck hunting and Mamet.
A few years ago I came across an essay by David Mamet called “The Audience: Or, lessons from duck hunting. (Bambi vs. Godzilla, 2007) It has resonated with me ever since. “A duck decoy doesn’t need to look like a duck. It needs to l...
The Unusual Suspects 8: Innovation and Vulnerability
It all began with a spontaneous comment by host Saul Kaplan on the second day of the BIF5 Collaborative Innovation Summit. After thanking two of the speakers, he made the observation that there is a strong connection between vulnerability and i...
The Unusual Suspects 7: John Maeda and Bruce Nussbaum on design.
Since the publication of The Laws of Simplicity, John Maeda has become the patron saint of the art balancing simplicity and complexity. A former professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Maeda taught media arts and sciences ...
The Unusual Suspects 6: Alan Webber Playing Fast with the Rules
In the relatively tiny geography of business magazine world, it was the equivalent of a pre-1981 Beatles reunion. Alan Webber and Bill Taylor, co-founders of Fast Company magazine, took the stage together at BIF5 for the first time in many yea...
