Fonts in “The Periodic Table of Typefaces” are arranged by family, and according to their ranks on a series of “Best Of” font fave lists from around the design world.
This makes a great wall poster.
Read more: http://www.dwell.com/articles/periodic-table-of-typefaces.html#ixzz1hvleAdUI
TweetI love the simplicity of this idea. Although this is an ad, it’s also a great story. Have a look and imagine what you could do.
TweetI know you’re super busy. That’s why you need to take a ten-minute break and watch Nigel Marsh’s TED Talk on work/life balance. It’s insightful and useful.
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The Human Library
The Human Library project is fascinating and worth exploring if you’re into community building or just appreciate great ideas.
In a human library, you can ‘check out’ a person, usually for 30 minutes, and just have a conversation about who they are and what they do. It sounds a little odd but here is an example of the human books recently made available at Toronto libraries. People on the front lines of today’s city issues. Contributors to Toronto’s arts and culture scene. Veterans and survivors who are rebuilding their lives after war. Entrepreneurs making it in today’s competitive world. The people on the front lines of human health.
The History of The Human Library
Once upon a time in Copenhagen, Denmark. There was a young and idealistic youth organisation called “Stop The Violence”. This non-governmental youth movement was self initiatied by the five youngsters Dany Abergel, Asma Mouna, Christoffer Erichsen, Thomas Bertelsen and Ronni Abergel from Copenhagen after a mutual friend was stabbed in the nightlife (1993). The brutal attack on their friend, who luckily survived, made the five youngsters decide to try and do something about the problem. To raise awareness and use peer group education to mobilise danish youngsters against violence. In a few years the organisation had 30.000 members all over the country.
In 2000 Stop The Violence was encouraged by then festival director, Mr. Leif Skov, to organise acitivites for Roskilde Festival. Events that would put focus on anti-violence, encourage dialogue and build relations among the festival visitors. And the Human Library was born, as a challenge to the crowds of Northern Europes biggest summer festival.
Read more here.
TweetI’m a fan of brilliant documentaries such as Manufactured Landscapes. There nine minutes flew by because the images and ideas are fantastic.
Canadianartschool.ca: Art & Activism from Canadian Art on Vimeo.
TweetThanks to David Wright for sending this. It speaks for itself. There is a ton of star power behind this.
TweetLooking for connections between a brand philosophy and a human desire in nothing new. BMW has been linking performance cars with art since the 1970s.
When a brand invests enough time to become a legitimate authority on anything, it can easily use that legitimacy to forge a tighter bond with customers.
This short video on the history on the project helps to put a little context around the automaker’s recent fundraising campaign.
BMW Art Car
BMW Art Car
Each piece, regardless of its location, is available to be bid on and won from anywhere in Canada. The minimum bid for each piece is $250. Once the auction closes, the individual with the highest bid will be notified and then shipped the complete art piece, including the frame. All proceeds raised from the winning bids will be donated to Kids’ Horizons and all winning bidders will receive a tax receipt for their donation. The BMW Art Auction closes at 12:00 AM (midnight), October 1, 2011. If you have any questions, or require assistance placing your bid, please email BMW_art_auction@bmw.ca.
TweetAdding a bit of a creative brief to the crowd sourcing process is getting better results and helping companies make more informed decisions. Instead of trolling through comments and posts or encouraging random thoughts, these guys are asking for specific feedback on real challenges and offering a relevant incentive. This increases the odds of getting workable ideas from crowd participants.
As a content creator, I welcome this kind of dialogue with real people. It exposes the team to customer-speak that can be used to increase relevance and rapport.
Here are three companies that are trying to do things differently.
Open IDEO
OpenIDEO is a place where people design better, together for social good. It’s an online platform for creative thinkers: the veteran designer and the new guy who just signed on, the critic and the MBA, the active participant and the curious lurker. Together, this makes up the creative guts of OpenIDEO.
To become a place where good ideas gain momentum, OpenIDEO depends on participation — your inspirations, his comments, her concepts, our design process. It’s these efforts, these big and small moments of sharing and collaboration, that make this platform a dynamic resource for tackling significant global challenges.
IDEO, a design and innovation firm, developed OpenIDEO as a way to include a broader range of people in the design process through inspiration, concepting and evaluation.
InnoCentive
InnoCentive is the open innovation and crowdsourcing pioneer that enables organizations to solve their key problems by connecting them to diverse sources of innovation including employees, customers, partners, and the world’s largest problem solving marketplace.
Our proven Challenge Driven Innovation methodology, community of millions of problem Solvers, and cloud-based technology platform combine to fundamentally transform the economics of innovation and R&D through rapid solution delivery and the development of sustainable open innovation programs.
Napkin Labs
Napkin Labs was born out of our experience with innovation and brand consulting for large companies. We saw social business and customer communities as the evolution of focus groups and traditional research, and realized new tools were needed to keep pace in an era of rapid innovation.
We built our platform as an internal tool to connect with external communities, and truly believe that customer collaboration will continue to change the way businesses operate in the future. At Napkin Labs, we believe great ideas can come from anywhere, but that the greatest ideas come from working together. We built our company to make that belief a reality.
When we’re not working, you’ll usually find us hiking or skiing in the Rockies, enjoying a microbrew in Boulder, or catching a show at Red Rocks.
TweetNext Media Animation is a unit of Next Media Limited, the No. 1 source for print and online news in Taiwan and Hong Kong. The group produces action videos to accompany news stories and they do it in under 3 hours.
This behind-the-scenes video chronicles the process from start to finish. We all might want to think about this when we estimate eight weeks for a print ad or three days for an animated banner.
Here is a sample of NMA’s work. Check out their SHOWREEL for more videos.
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I’ve never been to the Burning Man Festival and that burns me a little.
In the digital age, the spirit of real community and physical creativity is alive and well in the desert.
The San Francisco Chronicle has published some great photos of the event. You can view them all here
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All photo credits are on the SFC site.
