Well it’s 12 midnight and the lounge is humming, and most Vancouverites are just waking up. I’m back from the Adobe Awards and now sitting in the “W” lounge with a beer that will likely be my undoing….not sure how many hours since I slept.
The Adobe Awards were good, an amazing student turn out. Great [...]

I just came across this great video interview of John Kristensen proprietor of Firefly Letterpress in Somerville, MA. and figured I would share it. Enjoy!
There are a few classic quotes in the video too:
John Kristensen:
“Yes make it attractive, but make it be what the text needs it to be. Whereas in the wild and woolly [...]

Johnnie Walker’s ‘The Walk’ is my favorite ad of 2009 and for a number of reasons; it’s storytelling, it’s simplicity and it’s Scottish heritage. And so it seemed a great way to toast the the passing of 2009 and acknowledge the coming of the new decade ahead.
The past year was a turbulent one [...]

It feels a little like winning a ‘Golden Ticket’ from Willy Wonka, because yesterday I found out I was one of 100 people invited to attend the first TEDxVacouver on November 21st at the Electronic Arts campus in Burnaby. Selection for the event was based on an online application that took at least an hour [...]

I came across a pretty well put together video on You Tube about a so called Social Media revolution, or as Erik Qualman has coined it, and Trademarked it, ‘Socialnomics.’ The video promotes his book by the same name and is out in wide release August 26, 2009.
There are some intriguing statics whipping in and [...]

Tops in design, business, brands, the tops of this and that is endless. I have had a few of these list style links bookmarked to share for a while and with June 2009’s Fast Company cover feature “the 100 Most Creative People in Business” I figured it was a good time to post them.
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The honesty of our economic times is hard to avoid. I personally know many businesses and individuals faced with the sad reality of poor leadership decisions by business and government the world over. But I encourage us all to focus on the positives, find opportunity where you least expect it, give back to those around you [...]

BE SURE TO READ Yvon Chouinards business autobiography, ‘Let My People Go Surfing: the education of a reluctant businessman.‘
 
“I’ve never respected the profession. It’s business that has to take the majority of the blame for being the enemy of nature, for destroying native cultures, for taking from the poor and giving to the rich, and [...]

MMMMMMMMMMMM, Cherry Garcia®, Phish Food®, Half Baked…I’m seeing a trend here…and it’s not stoner music. It’s a creative approach to making business fun and it’s not at the expense of ‘wicked cool’ financial returns.
Who would have thought two ‘hippie’ Long Island grade school friends could take a ‘cow to cone’ business plan and help change the world with [...]

Hopen, Komplement, Klippan and Kramfors. There’s build your own furniture and then there’s build your own empire and Ingvar Kamprad has created a name for giving the people what they want with affordable style. IKEA is swedish for richest man in the world. A catalog in print more than the Bible - 27 languages and [...]