Archive for the ‘creativity’ Category

The concept of personality has us hooked; just look at Cosmo quizzes and the thousands of online personality tests. And rightly so: it’s something that has profound effects on our friendships, love lives (that old “she’s got a nice personality” chestnut) and careers. For instance, Bruce Tognazzini claims that designers must have an ‘N’ in [...]

Just found out that the video of my talk at Reboot in Copenhagen has been posted to the conference site: Slides themselves are on Slideshare, albeit with some minor font inconsistencies. It’s also worth checking out Andy’s session on the user experience curve, and I particularly enjoyed Eric Reiss talking about e-service. Be great to [...]

Barclaycard just unveiled their new corporate identity. Yep, another Death Star. I leapt to these comparisons right away (as did, it appears, the Creative Review). I mean, c’mon, do we need more of the same? We get it. You’re global companies. You’re bright and forward-thinking. You connect people. Blah blah blah. How much did this [...]

Some mashups are unlikelier than others. However, none as unlikely as the collision of Flickr and id’s classic shoot-em up Wolfenstein in Wolfenflickr 3D. The Web truly is a mysterious place.

I do find that creativity is hard to sustain in these grim winter months. Those creative juices flow much more freely in autumn. So big whoops of mild interest for Thing-A-Day (via Iain Tait): Which I’m going to do. The thing that’s swung it is the flexibility: any creative act counts, meaning there are days [...]

Inspired by Rebekah Sedaca’s Boxes and Arrows post, some workmates and I took a social day out learn the art of comic drawing. I can barely remember the last time I attempted to draw anything ‘for real’ – it’s long been something I’ve decided I couldn’t (and therefore shouldn’t) do. And, well, I’m still not [...]

I can’t remember where I heard it, but I was surprised it came from someone in the field. The sarcastic tone surprised me even more than the chuckles of agreement. Hang on, I thought with astonishment, surely we’ve not reached the stage where we reduce ourselves to hackneyed self-criticism? In my experience, passion for their [...]