Coffee, (e)books, and QUOTE.fm. What else do you need? Well for my reading experiences lately I don’t need much more. Oh, of course I need the right sources. The book itself is easy. It is the old traditional way. Buy it, hold it in your hands, read it, and then think about it. The book […]
Matt Schoenholz, Creative Director at Frog Design, talks about the way from inspiration to innovation and happens in the middle. Honestly I don’t know what to add. This talk from the TEDxPugetSound is personal, inspiring, motivating = perfect. Frog Design is one of my most adored companies/agencies, and Matt Schoenholz proves why. “Matt Schoenholz, Creative […]
Photo by Manuel Vazquez and copyright by Hel Yes I love it when I get links like this one by a tweet of Igor Schwarzmann. Within a post a few months ago, I was talking about the connection between food and design. And the team of HEL YES! brings it to the maximum. Antto Melasniemi, […]
Malte shared this video with me via delicious and I must say I love the talk of Matt Ridley about how new ideas are generated: “It is our habit of trade, idea-sharing and specialization that has created the collective brain which set human living standards on a rising trend. This, he says, ‘holds out hope […]
Photo by Erica Gorochow While I was in New York 2005/06 I met a lot of interesting and creative people. Erica Gorochow is one of the them. And after New York we stayed digitally in contact. A short while ago she wrote me an email and reported about a project she is participating. We came […]
Designer/architect/teacher Miki Iwasaki is a wise man. He is the owner of mi-workshop, an archtitecture and design studio in San Diego, California, and part of The Bakery, a design collective and collaborative creative space in San Diego. What I like about him is a personified combination of a hands-on man and a thoughtful, highly-creative character. “His […]
Back in 1967 the International and Universal Exhibition, short Expo, took place in Montreal. And Ian Smith reported in his blog Smallcano about the story that he looked through some stuff in his parents’ basement and stumbled upon a ticket/passport for the exhibition. And like Ian, I am overwhelmed of the idea, the design and […]
Change Connections is a collaboration between The Feast and Nokia. You know Nokia, the telecommunication company from Finland. And The Feast is famous for their events, taking place in the USA. “The Feast is a cross-disciplinary series of programs addressing social innovation and new ways to make the world a better place. Our secret sauce […]
As kids we had an ability that could help us a lot today. It was a powerful ability. Imagination. As kids we could imagine being indians or cowboys and we were running around, shooting with our hands – playing and acting and all the accessories or places were created in our minds, just by one […]
Ideas+Energy=Change. It is as simple as that. The Do Lectures is an annual series of inspirational lectures, the event is taking place in the Fforest camp in Cilgerran, West Wales. People come together hold lectures and inspire each other, great. But you may ask, what is the special thing about it? We have plenty of […]