Creative Process
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Research has caught on "tape" the moment of insight that comes to us in a daydreaming state of mind.
"Aha" Moments Caught on Tape
INNOVATION is today's equivalent of the Holy Grail. Rich-world governments see it as a way of staving off stagnation.
Schumpeter: Think different
Steampunk radio
A remarkable story about Victorian platform innovation Radio is in flux. The first digital radio platform – DAB – is in danger of being eclipsed before most of us have even bought one.
The Auteur Myth | Wired Science
<img src="http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/wiredscience/2011/07/Alfred-Hitchcock-by-Jack-Mitchell.jpeg" alt="" title="Alfred Hitchcock by Jack Mitchell" width="600" height="535" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-69024" /> Randall Stross recently wrote an interesting piece in the Times extolling the virtues of the Apple design process by comparing it to Google’s engineer driven approach.
The Eight Pillars of Innovation
The greatest innovations are the ones we take for granted, like light bulbs, refrigeration and penicillin. But in a world where the miraculous very quickly becomes common-place, how can a company, especially one as big as Google, maintain a spirit of innovation year after year?
Showcase of Impressive Design Process Explanations
A common feature amongst the top design portfolio and agency websites is a visually presented explanation of their design process.DJ Kool Herc: 'When I extended the break, people were ecstatic, because that was the best part of the record to dance to.' Considering the event is thought to be the birth of a globe-spanning, music-based culture almost half a century old, the ambitions that lay behind it were endearingly modest. Cindy Campbell just wanted to raise a bit of money before the new school term began to buy some clothes from boutiques on Delancey Street, 10 miles south on Manhattan's Lower East Side, rather than wear the same clothes as her classmates who'd be shopping nearer home.
DJ Kool Herc DJs his first block party (his sister's birthday) at 1520 Sedgwick Avenue, Bronx, New York | Music
Coffee as lubricant of the enlightenment
M'learned colleague Simon Hopkins related an anecdote from Neal Stephenson's historical novel Quicksilver , about how coffee's introduction to Britain was doubted as being a highly exotic acquired taste, if not a mindbending intoxicant due to the average constitution's lack of familiarity with caffeine.
Don’t Forget the “I” in “T”: On Recommitting to Specialism
Mashery's Circus Mashimus poster at SXSWi 2011 Picture the scene. There are around 4-6 people clustered around a table together.Current neuroscience research confirms what creatives intuitively know about being innovative: that it usually happens in the shower.