July 2011
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Linkness. What we’ve been reading | July 29, 2011
Video of the week: even if you don’t like Beyonce, this clip of her live performance at the recent Billboard Awards will blow your mind. It feels like the zeitgeist, in look, sound and even, somehow, sentiment. And now onto the rest of the freshest links in business and creativity.
Management.
Complex decision-making requires we defer the feeling of being right, by tolerating the tension of...
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“Clients have business needs, challenges, and goals. They try to solve for these...”
– “A Business Model Set to Self-Destruct,” a must-read from Farrah Bostic on the disconnect between agencies and their clients.
“I asked him if he would come up with a few options. And he said, ‘No, I will...”
– Steve Jobs on iconic designer Paul Rand (via curiositycounts)
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Linkness. What we’ve been reading | July 22, 2011
Can you tell what this is? Grains of sand, magnified to 250 times their natural size. Welcome to Linkness, where our aim is to help you see fascinating things up close!
Management.
You are not running out of time | Rahul Bijlani
Six proven steps to creating raving fans | Wrestling Possums
The danger of neglecting time alone | Becoming Minimalist
Game mechanics hit the workplace with Engage...
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Ditch the ad agency and make it a club instead. |... →
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“Never forget that magic is an elusive force. Sometimes exasperating in its...”
– John Hegarty | NEXTNESS
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“… the hook of beauty, like the hook of curiosity, is a response to an...”
– Why Does Beauty Exist? | Wired.com
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“Beauty is a particularly potent and intense form of curiosity. It’s a learning...”
– Why Does Beauty Exist? | Wired.com
Watchthoughtyoushouldseethis:
“Voyagers is like a title sequence for the museum,” describes Chris Allen of the Light Surgeons of their installation in the entrance of the £35 million Ofer Wing of the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, London. The crashing waves of type are simply gorgeous. Sea of Information takes a deeper look at some of the other digital design projects on display. As Local...
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Linkness. What we’ve been reading | July 15, 2011
Welcome to Linkness, STW Group’s weekly round up of business and creativity reads. Today’s image is by London-based French graphic designer Jean Jullien. Enjoy!
Management.
Selling the invisible: the art of the expert (a must-read for agencies, consultants and those working with clients) | Johnny Holland
Products and markets with nothing in common “taxonomically” can have “thematic...
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“Social movements = ideas + narratives + symbols + leaders”
– Maajid Nawaz, executive Director of Quilliam Foundation, the world’s first counter-extremism thinktank (via curiositycounts)
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“A designer is trying to create order out of chaos, while an art director is...”
– John Hegarty, Hegarty on Advertising: Turning intelligence into magic.
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Watchthoughtyoushouldseethis:
This video is from October 2009, but it speaks to a trend I seem to be obsessing about at the moment: using the fabric of the city as a creative canvas on which artists can project all sorts of meaning. For this project, called Open Cities, the artists David Gunn and Guillermo E Brown visited Porto, in Portugal, to collect sounds and images they then used in a live...
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How to make cinemagraphs — still photos that move... →
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Linkness. What we’ve been reading | July 8, 2011
Welcome to Linkness, where we summarise the best stories we’ve read on the internet this, and every, week.
Management.
What art has got to do with it | Re-imagining by @rishadt
The new rules of hiring great employees | Inc.com
From freelancers to telecommuters: succeeding in the new world of solitary work | Knowledge@Wharton
Schedule a time for doing nothing but thinking | Harvard...
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