Innovation
What makes people creative?
As someone who works in the ‘creative’ industries, I find the word “creative” far too limiting in its scope. I am uncomfortable being termed a creative. In New York speak and in agency speak, a creative is someone who designs or someone who makes things. Graphic designers, fashion designers, product designers, sculptors, artists is the [...]
Advise me on your organization/ project management skills
My job mostly involves thinking/ consulting and being held accountable for it. Knowing my client’s problems, understanding the landscape and offering possible solutions that will meet the clients objectives. Of late, I’ve been tasked with work that involves a teensy bit of project management/ execution: problem solving on the go. And not million dollar client-related [...]
Authonomy - Crowdsourcing for books.
Spotted on springwise.com - Authonomy is the output of the innovative minds at Harper Collins Publishing house. My mout is salvaiting with the idea of reading the books / excerpts already posted on this site! It is crowdsourcing for books. People/ Writers write about 10,000 words of their novel and upload it on this site. [...]
Working Class Studio - make money and art.
I find it very hard to resist beautiful stationary - especially writing books. Yesterday while I was at Barns & Noble to pick up the last of the Twilight Series, I chanced upon this beautifully designed journals (see picture below) by a new company, “Working Class Studio.” Turns out, the studio is an innovative output [...]
Invitation to a feast
Well, one of its kind really.
A few months back, my paths crossed with All Day Buffet and I joined them in their efforts to make social innovation mainstream. You probably know of All Day Buffet from its ridiculously successful Cause for Drinks event. If you haven’t been to one yet - you should.
Mike, Jerri and [...]
Career advice I wish someone had given me.
I think my non-traditional career path is testimony to the increasing dissonance ambitious young self-starters like me have felt with the traditionally available career options. I do receive occasional emails from young graduates who are seeking career advice. Since I don’t have the bandwidth to share my learnings via email exchanges, this is a good [...]
Productive creativity
I came across Fat Pig Chocolate Bars on some random blog and absolutely fell in love with the sheer irreverence and unexpected little surprise of this brand. A little more digging revealed that the creator of the brand is actually a creative agency called, “The Brooklyn Brothers.”
Their approach to doing work is lovely - [...]
Thinking Art and Commerce
For a project at work, I’ve been thinking and re-thinking the notion of art, culture and commerce and what it means for corporations. I could swear I’ve fried my brain cells in thinking about this, but I may be finally getting somewhere… hear me out.
I was pretty ecstatic when I learned that Paris’s famous [...]
Design Manifesto
“We believe in Cultural Design.
That Design, approached holistically and thoughtfully has the potential to impact the greater good. The designer is the connective tissue between the humanities and sciences: the alchemists of the Future who will play a vital role in transforming our world.
This harkens back to the era as artist as inventor, philosopher, [...]
