innovation

The Ultimate Mood and Storyboard Application

October 6, 2009

Creatives all over the world do their best to visualize their ideas when pitching clients, preparing for photo shoots or simply putting their ideas on paper. Apart from sketching with Sketchbook Pro I’ve personally been using Flickr and Google Image Search combined with Photoshop for ages. Lately I’ve added Bing and iStockphoto to the list. [...]

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Dear CEO’s, Board Members and Top Management – what’s more important? Wine or Change?

September 26, 2009

This post is probably most stupid post one can write since CEO’s and board members seems to have decided to stay behind with the dinosaurs while the rest of us look for new ground where we can thrive and prosper. Basically on average they read three local newspapers of their own choice, Wall Street Journal, [...]

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TEDxStockholm and Tales of Passion

September 20, 2009

This weekend I was one of the privileged ones attending the second TEDxStockholm with among others Hans Rosling speaking. TEDxStockholm is a place for people who believe in the power of ideas and inspiring talks to help shape the face of the future. A great picture by Gitta Wilén from the first TEDxStockholm. Can you [...]

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Microsofts Future Interface Bonanza

September 19, 2009

A great site for finding inspiration is Fubiz. Their tagline ‘Daily Doze of Inspiration’ says it all. This morning when I was preparing for a speech on the ‘DNA of Creativity’ next week at an event arranged by Cap & Design, one of Swedens leading design magazine I stumbled on this wonderful video below from [...]

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Art, Technology and Nature Combined turns into a Future Innovation

September 18, 2009

Thomas Traxler has got his shit together. Powered by nothing but sunlight and some threads, Thomas Traxler‘s “The idea of a tree project” shows us how objects can grow during the course of a day. His project more or less mimics the way a tree grows and changes shape due to weather conditions. Amazing. Thomas [...]

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How to innovate a set of icons

August 27, 2009

Innovation is a strange thing. The best of innovations usually happens when someone takes something established from the world of culture and ads a twist or adapt it to future needs. Weiden & Kennedy’s great Honda COG pastiche on Peter Fischli & David Weiss’s art expression ‘The Way Things Go‘ is the perfect example on [...]

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Can XBOX360 Natal really be this good

August 6, 2009

About 2 month ago this video below showing the next generation controls for XBOX360 – The Natal – was uploaded to YouTube. It was first showed at the E3 Expo in L.A. The question is – can the XBOX 360 Natal really be this good. I mean, look at how it senses small arm movements, [...]

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The future belongs to cool robots and it scares the hell out of me

April 15, 2009

Terminators. Robots created by mankind came to the decision that in order for them to solve their tasks it was more efficient if mankind were extinct. A fantasy or a probable future? The last couple of years I’ve seen lots of videos coming out from laboratories that makes the Terminator future quite possible. I can [...]

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On my way home from 6 days on Lanai, Hawaii that changed my life

March 8, 2009

Me interacting with Mr Dolphin, his friends and family. I have spent the last 6 days on Lanai, Hawaii together with a good friend. We’ve been down here attending Tibco’s yearly conference. He as an employee and me as a guest. The optimum setup for me as I’ve focused more on exploring the island than [...]

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WWRD – 36 things Ronnestam would do differently if he had control of brand that delivered broadband, telecom and television services

March 4, 2009

I am sitting on a plane between Chicago and Hawaii reading Jeff Jarvis book ‘What Would Google Do, WWGD’. (after seeing a recommendation on Daytonas site). This got in me in the mood to write a blog post that gives you my point of view what the big triple play telcos should do differently if [...]

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In order to create something timeless you’ve gotta set Megagoals.

February 25, 2009

The Lamborghini Miura – A timeless car What makes an object timeless? Why in some cases do we all end up liking something so much so it rises from being just another thing to instead becoming culture? Certain designs and certain objects has that little extra, they’re like an open fire – we can’t stop [...]

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Let’s start a revolution – get of the boat and build yourselves a new brand transportation system.

February 18, 2009

Let me break it to you right away – the old way of planning and executing communication is slowly sinking into the ocean of well paid consultants that doesn’t do shit for your brand and the best you can do is throw yourselves into the lifeboats, get your ass to land and then find something [...]

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