The Paul Rand exhibition in Dublin created by Curate and Design was brilliant.
As you all know if you happen to read this blog, I’m a huge admirer of the work Paul Rand created. George Lois describes Rand as “brimming over with taste” which I think nails it.
This exhibition drove home that same message into the hearts of all who attended.
Here is a video piece created for the exhibition by the very talented Mark Gilligan -
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SparkTales Literacy Education App created by Think_Build
Episode One of “We did this Podcast” is here.
I’m currently working on a podcast with a group of extremely talented people, we aim to create something really interesting and fun. We haven’t exactly narrowed down our focus, but whatever we choose we hope to do it differently. We’re going to randomly choose topics to talk about…
Throw some suggestions in the comments below and you might just hear it come up in our next podcast!
Here is a little Twitter usage info graphic i made as part of some documentation… If you wanna use it, go ahead.
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Unstuck is an interactive application version of the 2004 book, Unstuck: A Tool for Yourself, Your Team, and Your World by Keith Yamashita and Sandra Spataro.
This is App is interesting, because it isn’t just shifting from print media to a digital, for example an ebook. It is actually utilizing the change-over to a tablet device, there is a reason behind it and a solid use for the new format.
Put simply (in print format) they identified the symptoms of being stuck, introduced readers to the Serious Seven states of “stuck”—from “Overwhelmed” to “Exhausted” to “Alone”—and offered dozens of in-the-moment tools, techniques, and examples to generate immediate ideas, whether you needed to back up in order to move forward, motivate a struggling team, change your goals, or inspire yourself with a clearer picture of where you’re headed.
The app in the same way as the book, takes this same process and uses prompts in a digital format to guide the user to become “unstuck”. A nice, clean, understandable reason to actually use the new format of a tablet device.
The core idea of the app is: Why do the most brilliant people get stuck? How do they identify that they’ve hit a roadblock–personal or professional?
After 18years of business consultancy, Keith Yamashita co-founder of the successful firm SYPartners aims to help people find clarification and become unstuck. Using the tools he has developed over this time, havingworked with business giants such as IBM, Sony, Disney, HP, and Nike.
From this perspective, being stuck isn’t a pejorative term, but rather means that what you’re trying to achieve is working out in a different, unexpected way. The app SYPartners is developing visualizes the decision-making process for getting yourself unstuck, and exposes intuitive actionable knowledge that can unlock new behavior.
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