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Now Ready for Boarding – Please Turn Off All Electronic Devices
STORY BOARDING / BROADCAST DESIGN & ANIMATION / NO SOFTWARE Exclusively using software to create storyboards is now so commonly practiced that it seems mandated by some imaginary law – most...
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Freshly Cut – Tactile Design
INSPIRATION / TACTILE DESIGN As a follow-up to my last post on creating story boards without using software, I thought I’d post these architecture models by Japanese designer Naoki Terada. Each of...
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Remember The Future?
A few weeks ago, I came across a stash of slides of my student work that I had always intended to transfer to digital storage before their emulsion deteriorated and I lost them forever. Since starting...
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How A Gazillion Readers – Or Even a Few – Will Make You A Better Creative...
WHAT THOUSANDS OF HITS, “LIKES” AND COMMENTS CAN TEACH YOU: My aim is to compose a new post for this blog at least once each week – but since it’s entirely a labor of love, this “schedule” gets pushed...
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Designing For Augmented Reality – All Aboard The Transmedia Train
LOOKING FOR DESIGN’S PLACE IN AN EMERGING ENTERTAINMENT FORMAT – AND FINDING IT EVERYWHERE scene from "L’Arrivé d’un Train" - 1895 One persistent scrap of film “fakelore” is that moviegoers in the...
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Bringing Soulful Back – A Tactile Approach To Design
INCORPORATING FOUND TEXTURES AND PATTERNS INTO MOTION GRAPHIC PROJECTS – ADDING DEPTH AND PERSONALITY IN THE PROCESS. For years now, and probably since I started working as a graphics and motion...
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Curious Anonymous Stories – Part 7
INFO-GRAPHICS AND BEING INFORMED… OR NOT This brief story is about trust in information. Trust in what we know and what we think we know. Trust that we are prepared. And, trust that what we learn is...
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Media Branding’s Digital Conundrum Is So Today… Ready For Future Challenges?
DEVELOPING AND IMPLEMENTING CREATIVE STRATEGY – PLANNING WITH AN EYE FOR WHAT’S NEXT. All businesses evolve. Trends pass, technology eases some tasks and complicates others, economies shrink and grow,...
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Collaboration vs. Groupthink – A Creative’s Opinion
In an opinion column (“Rise Of The New Groupthink,” Sunday Review – New York Times, January 15, 2012), Susan Cain argues that creative people can only innovate in solitude. She elaborates on her...
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SIRI Walks Into Bar and Meets HAL 9000 – Concept Check Please…
MOTION DESIGN & POST-PRODUCTION / SOFTWARE / INNOVATION & CREATIVITY Over the last 20+ years, companies like Adobe, Autodesk, Avid and Maxon have helped redefine the realm of possibility for...
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