Creativity Matters
“We start from the presumption that our people are talented and want to contribute. We accept that, without meaning to, our company is stifling that talent in myriad unseen ways.”
Ed Catmull, President of Pixar Animation and Disney Animation
Today I had a meeting with a Bay Area videographer named Terry Lamb. The two of us had recently met at a business group I just joined, a group whose goal is to get its members to know others from various professions, establish a sense of trust, and then work as a networking group, helping […]
This video, the first of a three part series that was first aired in 1999, ABC News spent some time with Palo Alto, California based IDEO, whose innovative approach to design and creativity lead them to be one of the top international product designers in all the world. In a five day challenge, ABC asks […]
We began this series by looking at Abraham Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs, noting how Maslow has creativity positioned at the uppermost level, at the level of Self-Actualization. We also noted that while the first four levels were characterized by a sense of “deficiency” or lack, this uppermost level of Self-Actualization was marked by a sense […]
Nourishing, life-giving, ever-changing light, rising and setting, arching across the sky, silvering the waxen edges of the leaves of the oak tree, flashing up the spine of a single blade of grass, its resplendent presence on the sill of a window, its ability to penetrate a room like a sharp object or to diffuse through […]
“You should return to the well often for ideas and inspiration and even a refresher on what you learned from those older campaigns. But rather than trying to “enhance” older campaigns with new technology, apply what you learned from those gems to something completely new. Because like it or not, George Lucas is teaching us […]
