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The Creative Priority
The Creative Priority : Putting Innovation to Work in Your Business
by Jerry Hirshberg
I found the tone of this book unnecessarily haughty, and felt constantly that Mr. Hirshberg has something to prove in writing it. This is less a book on practical innovation itself than a self-congratulatory career retrospective on the part of the author. It is clear that Hirshberg is intelligent and creative, and not at all afraid to tell you so.
Despite it all, the book is full of interesting facts and stories from the inside of Nissan’s innovation design center in California. Not a must-read, but worth a skim.
Hicks-Gibbon takes off!
And they’re off! We’ve now got EIGHT greeting cards for sale at hicksgibbon.com, so go buy them now!
Invetors: future tense.
Calling all future inventors! I was lucky enough to sit in on a brainstorming session at Mrs. Mary Lou’s K-2 mixed classroom on Friday. Lets take a look at some of the results. (Some images protected pending patent registration.)
Chinglish Lessons
My brother just got back from a month-long trek through Taiwan, and brought me these little treasures. Make sure to read the words on the products.
Hilareous translations aside, these are pretty impressive pieces of Taiwanese design! All the cleanliness and style-sense of the Japanese graphics we’re accustomed to, but with a distinctly Chinese attitude. I’m impressed.
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Images from the New World
Welcome to Bose Corporate HQ in Framingham, Mass. Impressive? I don’t work here.
Boston or bust!
My lovely wife Robin has been accepted to Harvard Divinity to study Islam as relates to art history and conservation (she plans to be an art conservator). So we’re off to Boston! We visited this past weekend, and just loved it.
So I’m looking for jobs in the Boston area. If you have any connections up there, help a brotha’ out!