Tag Archives: Creativity

The Sketchnote Handbook by @rohdesign – a video review

Posted on February 7, 2013 by john v willshire

(This is the first proper attempt at the second of this year’s three projects… all thoughts and ideas on how to do this sort of thing better are most welcome.) Here’s a wee video I filmed last night about The … Continue reading →

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Physical stuff. It matters. In Matter.

Posted on September 10, 2010 by john v willshire

A quick ‘un… We love all the digital malarkey.  It’s ace, and new, and exciting, and so on and so forth. As a result, we spend less time thinking about the physical stuff.  And as Ed points out here, physical … Continue reading →

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The stupidity of the IPA Excellence Diploma

Posted on September 3, 2010 by john v willshire

Why would you want to come up with anything new?  It just gets in the way of doing the same things that your boss did before you, and his before that.  Nothing’s changing, not really, it’s all the same game… … Continue reading →

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2010 Social Nework map… now in landscape :)

Posted on August 11, 2010 by john v willshire

A couple of days ago, I posted an image of Flowtown’s brilliant update of the XKCD social network map. Off the back of wishing they’d done it in landscape for easy-presentation-stealing, I sent them a wee note… Hello there Firstly … Continue reading →

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“A better brief for a post-digital world” – @garethk

Posted on August 11, 2010 by john v willshire

I just had a wee flick through the below presentation, by Gareth Kay of Goodby, Silverstein & Partners. It’s a brilliant encapsulation of what’s still wrong with a lot of the adland process, and some smart & simple expressions of … Continue reading →

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Pocketgame… the story so far

Posted on July 29, 2010 by john v willshire

I mentioned before that I was working on something with Cadbury called ‘pocketgame‘… a crowdsourcey open game design competition thingy.  Which has been tremendous fun so far, as this video shows: Anyway, there are now 10 shortlisted pocketgames up for … Continue reading →

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Photoshop & Tate Modern’s Giant Baby installation

Posted on July 27, 2010 by john v willshire

I was at Tate Modern this weekend, and was really impressed by their new Giant Baby installation in the turbine hall…   Ha, yeah, fair cop… I was just mucking about with a bit of perspective, and using the TiltShiftGen … Continue reading →

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