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Creative Intelligence & Design Thinking to co-create a Better World

Human Centered Design Toolkit

How do we create a better future for our communities, our families, and ourselves? There has recently been much talk about co-creation, collaboration, innovation, and design thinking. In 2011, I set up Collaboration Cafe with a few fantastic friends to do a little more than just talk, but get actively involved in creating a blueprint for how we created a better world from the grassroots, up. We learnt a lot, and from time to time we will still run Collaboration Cafe, but at its core all it is, is a process. Sure, there’s some finesse around the edges that is brought by the team of … [Read more...]

The Making of 100 Companies

For those of you who haven't heard, myself and my friend, Graham Jenson, made a data visualisation that won the supreme award at this years Mix and Mash, and I'd like to share with you some of reasoning behind the visualisation. First of all I'd like to thank everyone who helped us, either by supporting us directly or spreading the word of our data visualisation, or more precisely Paul Callaghan's work, with the Tweeting, FBing and Redditing, its been truly overwhelming. How the idea came about? Well first off we needed a story to tell, all good visualisations tell a story, and we … [Read more...]

Is It Curtains For Design?

There are no mistakes in design. But there are plenty of opinions. I once designed an annual report for a large corporate client. We had established a look and feel, we'd created the report, we were on the 17th round of text changes (they could afford it), and we had been getting sign-off every step of the way. We were sure we were going to get final sign-off this meeting. However as the CEO sat looking at our masterpiece we could tell he was about to drop a bomb on it. The day before, he told us, his wife had bought a new set of yellow curtains and she really liked the colour of them. And … [Read more...]

Learning so much from the other Enspiral Creatives!

I have been in the Enspiral Wellington office now for almost 7 weeks and am loving the atmosphere, the learning and the new opportunities arising each day! I thought I would take a minute to share something that I'm sure is going to prevent a few future headaches for me and for clients. Last week Andrew Fyfe Enspiral's senior graphic designer shared a document with me and some valuable advice. "before starting on a new creative project, give this to your client" the document is a short questionnaire asking key questions to the client with the goal of putting both the designer and the … [Read more...]