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Creativity & Ideas

People Abstract Spookey

As we get more technically driven, the importance of people becomes more than it’s ever been before. You have to utilize who you are in your work. Nobody else can do that: nobody else can pull from your background, from your parents, your upbringing, your whole life experience.

David Carson
David Carson

An American graphic designer and surfer, best known for his innovative magazine design (Ray Gun), and use of experimental typography.

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Many innovations fail because consumers irrationally overvalue the old while companies irrationally overvalue the new.

Nir Eyal
Nir Eyal

Author of books on technology, psychology and business whose writings appear in the Harvard Business Review, The Atlantic, TechCrunch, and Psychology Today.

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  • Innovation & Adaptation
  • Product Design
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If you have no intuitive sense of design, then call yourself an “information architect” and only use Helvetica.

David Carson
David Carson

An American graphic designer and surfer, best known for his innovative magazine design (Ray Gun), and use of experimental typography.

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Zebra Elephants Unique Different

The greatness of art is to find not what is common, but what is unique.

Isaac Bashevis Singer
Isaac Bashevis Singer

A Polish-American writer in Yiddish, awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1978.

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The right idea is often the opposite of the obvious.

Alex F. Osborn
Alex F. Osborn

An American advertising executive and the author of the creativity technique named brainstorming.

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I start with the laugh and work backwards from there.

Bill Bailey
Bill Bailey

English actor, comedian, musician and singer. Known for creative ways of incorporating music into his comedy.

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Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

It is better to be good than to be original.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Architect and the last director of the Bauhaus, a seminal school in modern architecture.

  • Architecture
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  • Living Spaces
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Rules can be broken – but never ignored.

David Jury
David Jury

A writer, award-winning graphic designer and the head of the MA course of Art at the Colchester Institute.

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  • Design Principles
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A fundamental part of creative process is making mistakes together. There’s no learning without trying lots of ideas and failing lots of times.

Jony Ive
Jony Ive

Former Chief Design Officer of Apple, currently serving as a Chancellor of the Royal College of Art.

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  • Creativity & Ideas
  • Making Mistakes
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Messages don’t prompt the brain to action. But as ideas, they do!

Steve Adams
Steve Adams

Popular conference speaker and writer who worked in TV, radio and magazines and as Tearfund’s Head of Global Brand and Communication.

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