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Visual Inspiration18
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Random8
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First, is his own close relationship with the medium at hand. He describes clay not as a material, but “a lifelong companion”.

ultra modern world10
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The year is 2024. There are 8 billion people on Earth. We live with the world at our fingertips. We cling to a pocket-sized portal that promises dream

Like. Comment. Follow. Unknowingly, the sum of these interactions is greater than we ever imagined: time spent on ou

AI is aggregated human intelligence. So it’s better to call it collective intelligence than artificial intelligence. Emphasizing the collectivity (som

Spreadsheets kills creativity

Acqua di Parma0

Exploring animation direction

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Zany (Wiser Creative Principle)5

Eccentric on the verge of cartoonish. A clown’s pocket flower. A zig-zag zebra crossing. Zagging where everyone else zigs. The joy in the unexpected. Eclectic, eccentric. Challenging and off the wall, in an endearing way. Zigging and zagging, non-linear. Kinda ingenious. A bit tangy. A bit whacky.

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The ideation process15

A place to save my thoughts on brainstorming and how to streamline it

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thinking has two parts:expanding. generating chaos.collapsing. finding order.

Sometimes the process of thinking looks like needless chaos from the outside But thats what creatives should be doing. Banging on random objects just

think of your ideas as people / your children. I want my ideas to go hang out with other ideas, I don't want them hanging out in a room full of schedu

when björk said that trying to communicate through talking feels like trying to put the ocean through a straw

reasons why these are the good days2

a collection of notes to shift your thinking

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I’m Feeling Fabulous, Possibly Too Much So. But I Love It.

Dow billboards3

Some creative fodder for Dow OOH

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Dow is like the special effects team of the world—no one notices them, but everything would fall apart without them.

Dow makes materials for things like electric cars and medical devices, which means if you’ve ever charged your car or had surgery... congrats, you mig

Cool websites1

Nice linking of design to site name

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on the doomscroll2
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Many things in modernity are brain dead, but I can’t think of anything worse than the short form dystopias of TikTok and Instagram. They’re materially