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Finnish duo Phantom performing at MLOVE
Conferences are “stuff” which serves many purposes for the World’s creative business elite. The best ones combine a high-octane dose of inspiration with a chance to gaze into crystal balls deftly handled by the high priests of this large amorphous circle, the designers and consultants who shape consumer [...]
Some months ago Mrs T and I spent a most pleasant weekend at a country town far enough from the capital to be worth the drive. (This post has been in a notebook for a while – I’ve not had a chance to finish it till now.) My friend Janusz Kobylinski’s exhibition of photographs was [...]
This is a new one… I haven’t re-posted other bloggers in the past but this one from Designing Change makes so many good points, it needs to be spread.
Written by Joyce Hostyn on June 29, 2011
“The world we see today is the legacy of people noticing the world and commenting on it [...]
Some fourteen years ago I started to work on a book of Maori tribal myths and legends. Some eleven years ago the book was finally published by the New Zealand publishing house of Reed. (The book sold out withing three years but the publisher refused to reprint. That’s a good subject for another discussion about [...]
A couple of weeks ago I had the pleasure of giving an Ignite talk at the second edition of IgniteWarsaw, held at the beautiful Zacheta Gallery. Aircon wasn’t cooperating all that well but other than that the evening went off like a rocket thanks to the efforts of Michal Paluchowski, Zuza Stanska, Mateusz Nowak and [...]
Jacek Kowalski from Gazeta Wyborcza, the leading Polish daily, did a little chat with me this week, in the context of TEDxWarsaw, public speaking and the role of the storyteller. We talked for a while and here is the resulting interview, translated from the Polish. It was titled : “Tell me your story, just don’t [...]
As we all know, presentations can be either informative, interesting and inspiring or bland, boring and just plain bad. (Couldn’t resist the alliteration, eh.) What is interesting is that given the fact that both the presenters and the audience are usually drawn from the same pool of people, and no-one likes to attend boring presentations, [...]
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