Ideagarden

Watched this and had to share with anyone who dares to be creative. Encouragement indeed:

For some time now I have thought there was a gap in the market for the wiki-Delia. I found this over at http://www.commoncraft.com. It’s not the recipe for a roux but it’s certainly on a par with teaching you how to boil an egg… And I think the art direction is fabulous.

Not really sure what to make of this. This image was made by pasting the URL of this website and pressing the button that says ‘create’. But it was just pressing the button. I didn’t feel like I was creating anything. The image that came back was compelling – perhaps it shows the issues that I find most pressing? Not sure. It looks pretty though. You can see it bigger here.

This is beautifully done. Words that paint pictures in your head with a bit of help from minimal graphics. It’s called The Girl Effect. (with sound)

I keep forgetting to mention that my favourite internal comms agency The Design Conspiracy have a really great blog.

This is an interesting paradigm shift. What does the world look like to the 18 year old right now? They’ve always had the Internet and they do their homework using Wikipedia. We are experiencing a communications revolution and it comes with its own generation gap built in. Andrew Walkingshaw explains it rather well.

Here is a map of online communities, found on www.xkcd.com, which if you have never read is ‘a webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math and language’.

This little film is beautifully crafted, thought provoking and ultimately inspiring. Definitely worth 3 mins of your time (has sound). Web 2.0 … The Machine is Us/ing Us