IDEO Unveils Platform to Unite Creative Thinkers…

Design firm IDEO recently launched a website/platform to unite creative thinkers in achieving ideas for the public’s greater good. Called OpenIDEO (http://openideo.com/), the site lays out various challenges-including a Jamie Oliver-led initiative to encourage children to make and eat healthy foods and another seeking to bringing affordable learning tools to kids in developing countries. Creative [...]

Diabolical Sabatoge & the PGA Championship…

On Sunday, Dustin Johnson learned how diabolical the No.18 – “Dyeabolical” hole at Whistling Straits can be. He ended up being knocked out of the playoff at the PGA Championship on Sunday after he was penalized two strokes for grounding his club in a bunker he didn’t even realize existed. “It never crossed my mind [...]

Great Discovery! Daily Grommet

Special thanks go out to the Sunday New York Times and especially writer Amy Wallace for introducing me to the Daily Grommet. It is a Web site that promotes innovation by endorsing what they call “nice companies,” ones with well-made products and impeccable service. If those products preserve a craft or protect the environment, they [...]

What Whiteboards Can Do for You…

Here are a couple of good whiteboard examples: ###

Logo Ponderables…

Here are a couple of options quickly drawn up for the new logo.

Famous Typewriters for 200…

A post on “ancient” typewriters (typewriters that were used by 9 famous writers), caught my eye. It included a picture of the gold plated portable that Ian Flemming (the creator of the James Bond series), Hemingway’s Royal Arrow, Steinbeck’s Hermes Baby, and the typewriter used by Apple Mac user, Douglas Adams, to write the Hitchhikers [...]

Motivating the 21st Century Employee…

Wired Magazine had a story in their June 2010 issue (Cognitive Surplus: The Great Spare-Time Revolution) that delved into the most effective ways to motivate workers in the 21st century. They rounded up Daniel Pink, a Wired contributing editor and author of Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us and Clay Shirky, who recently [...]

Interesting Man, Uninteresting (or memorable) Beer…

I just revisited a story by Barbara Lippert, an advertising critic for AdWeek, that talked about male-themed potential award winners at the Cannes ad festival. She pointed to: “The Man Your Man Could Smell Like” for Old Spice, “The Most Interesting Man in the World” for Dos Equis and “The Man Who Walked Around the [...]