The Director at Pixar, Brad Bird answers some questions on creativity and innovation…
Brad Bird: When I entered Disney, it was like a classic Cadillac Phaeton that had been left out in the rain… The company’s thought process was not, “We have all this amazing machinery—how do we use it to make exciting things? We could go to Mars in this rocket ship!” It was, “We don’t understand Walt Disney at all. We don’t understand what he did. Let’s not screw it up. Let’s just preserve this rocket ship; going somewhere new in it might damage it.”
Global campaign from ABSOLUT; In An ABSOLUT World.
The multifaceted initiative is based on the premise of what life might be like ‘in an absolute world’. At its core are a series of visions on a dedicated website where visitors can vote for their favourite, the top pick of which will be later realised. The site – www.inanabsolutworld.com.au also houses the new cinema ads which are screening now and the print campaign for later in the year.
Gestalten is proud to announce the launch of Gestalten.tv which is a new platform that offers a selection of high quality moving image material including podcasts, film projects and products.
While researching a quirky idea I had about virtual real estate I stumbled across this curious little site. It seemed fun and creative and reminiscent of original Sim City. It’s called MyMiniCity. The premise is pretty simple, you or anyone starts a city by naming it (there’s no user accounts), and each visitor to the new city grows the population by one, as the city matures each direct visit to a city infrastructure link grows the infrastructure. That’s it. Then you watch the city evolve from town to metropolis. Ok, ok, the image shown above might not be how my little town of rhett.myminicity.com is right now, but who knows how an egotistical city named after yourself will mature? Some of the bigger ones I have found were LUEland in North America and FanaZ in France.
If you decide to start a city, leave a link in the comments and I’ll come visit. It’s a nice little arty game aside to your day that at least won’t consume all of your productivity like many of those other addictive web games can.
In an effort to discover what Heavy Backpack viewers are up to in their own blogs, portfolios etc. I though that I’d like to run a Link Drive for the next 30 days.
That means if you link to Heavy Backpack from your site (as a friend, or links page, or a news post, or whatever really) just let us know about it via email: info[at]heavy-backpack.com (replace [at] with @symbol) and we’ll return the linkage right here in this post. Hopefully this will help spread the word and boost exposure. (mutually)
AIGA invites designers from across the United States to create nonpartisan posters that inspire the American public to participate in the electoral process and vote for a presidential candidate in the 2008 general election.
Here is a selection of posters from 2004 (more found here): Left: Grant Design Collaborative, Atlanta Right: Frank Baseman, Philadelphia
The Director at Pixar, Brad Bird answers some questions on creativity and innovation…
In an effort to discover what Heavy Backpack viewers are up to in their own blogs, portfolios etc. I though that I’d like to run a Link Drive for the next 30 days.
