August 2011
38 posts
“Jay-Z and Kanye therefore solidified their place on the throne not by crushing...”
– Jay-Z’s Hegemony in the Age of Kanye by Marc Lynch (via viafrank)
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“When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty...”
– Steve Jobs (via stewartmccoy)
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How do you solve a problem like climate change?... →
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Watchthoughtyoushouldseethis:
Good, short video interview with Goodby Silverstein’s Gareth Kay, discussing how important it is to get clients to engage on both a functional and emotional level. Yes, he’s coming from an advertising background, but the idea is applicable in many other contexts too.
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“In the right circumstances, especially when consumers are in a hurry or slightly...”
– In Marketing, a Few Bad Words Can Be a Good Thing
“We had worked together on a Nike-Apple collaboration called Nike . So we took...”
– Mark Parker, president and CEO of Nike The First Time I Met Steve Jobs… | Fast Company
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Linkness. What we’ve been reading | August 26,...
Welcome to another Linkness! if you watch one video this week, make it musican Jack White from The White Stripes talking about creativity and the importance of imposing restrictions. Is it just us, or was the internet extra fascinating this week? Here’s what we found interesting.
Management.
Things that make me want to burn down ad agencies | Baby food for creatives
The age of uncertainty:...
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“My music is unique and individual and exists beyond the realms inhabited by...”
– Nick Cave, requesting that his nomination be withdrawn from the MTV music awards. (via BMD Love Blog, ideasareawesome)
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“Most of them were what I had asked for, but one broke the rules of the brief and...”
– Interesting exploration of work by BERG London in “Design Firm Seeks to Humanize Technology,” NYTimes.com
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WatchSky Scarf – a conceptual knitting project for documenting the weather outside your window, data visualization meets crafts via curiositycounts.
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Consumers with close ties to a brand respond to... →
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“If you listen first, and write later, then whatever you write will have had time...”
– You Are Not A Gadget author, Jaron Lanier, quoted in this New Yorker profile. (via thoughtyoushouldseethis)
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“…our current crises may have more to do with the scale, interdependence and...”
– Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government academic Ronald Heifetz via ‘Leadership without easy answers in a time of spiralling complexity’ on NEXTNESS
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Linkness. What we’ve been reading | August 12,... →
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Linkness. What we’ve been reading | August 5, 2011
Welcome to this week’s Linkness, where we ponder (jealously) if we might like maths a bit more if we’d had this teacher. (From an earlier Linkness: would we like science more if we’d listened to Radiolab in school?) And now to the rest of this week’s top business and creativity reads.
Management.
Tasks that matter: why effectiveness demands better problems, not better...
“I sometimes wonder if the ‘always on’ digital age is depriving brands of the...”
– To sleep, to dream, Jim Caroll, chairman of BBH London via BBH Labs
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How to get out of a creative rut. | NEXTNESS →
July 2011
71 posts
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