AdWeek interviewed Lisa Topol, a copywriter at Wieden + Kennedy in New York, most known for her recent work on the ESPN World Cup campaign using voiceovers from the band U2.
Archive for the 'Creative Process' tag
Combatting Creative Block with Infomercials
Thursday, July 13th, 2006
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Strategy by Design
Saturday, April 22nd, 2006
In order to do a better job of developing, communicating, and pursuing a strategy, the head of Ideo says, you need to learn to think like a designer. Here’s his five-point plan for how to make the leap.
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NO!SPEC Is Good For All Designers
Thursday, March 23rd, 2006
Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past month, like I seem to have been doing, then you’ve probably already heard about the NO!SPEC initiative. I can’t say enough good things about this website and I am surprised that the design community hadn’t thought of it sooner.
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Organize Your Ideas with Graphic Organizers
Monday, December 26th, 2005
Having a hard time brainstorming or working through that big idea? Then try out one of the many Education Place has a good collections of pdf templates on graphics templates that can help you productively brainstorm and going through ideas.
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script.aculo.us is mir.aculo.us
Monday, June 27th, 2005
For you code heads out there: from the mind of mir.aculo.us comesscript.aculo.us provides you with easy-to-use, compatible and, ultimately, totally cool JavaScript libraries to make your web sites and web applications fly, Web 2.0 style.
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Bug Reports Can Be Good for Business
Thursday, June 16th, 2005
Last fall, Christopher Hawkins wrote a post on “Embracing Criticism Is Good Business”. The overall post is good but I find his rant about bug reports to be the best part.
Christopher lists the following as reasons why he enjoys bug reports:
The fix is often a chance to make something within the application faster/cleaner/easier to use, […]
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REALBasic 2005 is Available
Tuesday, June 14th, 2005
It’s confirmed, RB2005 is ready for download. I can’t wait to start trying it out!
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REALBasic 2005 Almost Here!
Tuesday, June 14th, 2005
I’ve been holding off on realling learning REALbasic until its new version, which will support Tiger, comes out. Finally, this morning I checked my email and was pleasantly surprised by a message containing my new license and informing me that “REALbasic 2005 for Macintosh will be available very soon!”
I went to the site and […]
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