Eek!-onomy
Ok, so they’re telling me that the economy is, like, the worst economy ever in the history of time and space and we’re all gonna’ die from like, some blood-borne sub-prime thing and I know [...]
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03, 2008
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03, 2008
Factoid: Some people can smell sound
Are you one out of 1,000? The one of 1,000 that can smell sound? It is a psychological phenomenon called synesthesia, in which an individual can smell a sound or hear a color. Most of [...]
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02, 2008
Brands are Dead. Again?
In a prediction for 2007, trend and inspiration organization PSFK stated on its site: “…consumers will react by engaging in brand abstinence…” consumers will ask questions like, “Why should I replace my phone so often? [...]
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11, 2007
Brain Juice: sculpting greats
5 Greatest Sculptors of All Time Playing in two dimensions is easy enough, but what truly separates the men from the boys? Maybe it’s when you give up your easel for a tool belt and [...]
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11, 2007
Increase your creative output
by Karen Post aka the Branding Diva We’ve all been there. A large deadline is looming. It’s well past midnight. You don’t think your brain could possibly come up with a single idea - let [...]
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11, 2007
Creativity and Trust
For the last ten years or so I have had two major fears. Spiders and looking down over the edge of things. So… the other day I was driving along and the road suddenly became [...]
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10, 2007
Design’s a Hooot
Article courtesy Billy Roberts www.billyrobertsdesign.com There it was. I was at Starbucks getting my daily Chai Latte and staring back at me was this little sock puppet owl. It had a feeling of yesteryear and [...]
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10, 2007
The magic of ambience
Article courtesy of Jennifer Iannolo & The Gilded Fork If a guest can come away from the table with that kind of inspiration, it should stress to you the kind of importance ambiance can have [...]
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10, 2007
Ideas are products of their environments – more creative spaces
A while back we told you about one of our favorite books, Inspirability by Pash. It contains interviews with artists, designers, ad folks and others who create for a living. Scattered among the profiles are [...]
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10, 2007
How do you deal with bumps in the road?
If you’re like us, heck if you’re just breathing, you run into obstacles as you go along. But, if you’re an oddpod that means that you are (among other things) clever, creative, curious and tenacious. [...]