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 | Frog Design: 3 Things Wile E. Coyote Teaches Us About Creative Intelligence |
| Robert Fabricant |
| Creativity is generally viewed as an inherent quality within a person; there's a notion that you find out early in life whether you are creative or not. How many times have you heard a business person say "I am not creative" in a meeting? The concept of "Creative Intelligence" (or CQ) extends that model by implying that our level of creativity can be assessed in a quantitative manner similar to an IQ score. By bringing creativity into the sphere of assessment, I fear that CQ will ultimately suffer a similar fate as Design Thinking.  Read more |
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| | Paintings Turn Corporate Logos Into Abstract Art [Slideshow] |
| Suzanne LaBarre |
| We like to think that we're untethered from the shackles of ambient marketing, that corporate logos aren't as deeply embedded in our psyches as our own mothers' faces. Ha! Read more |
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| | Infographics of the Day: Flow Charts For Making Horror, Action, and Porn Movies |
| John Pavlus |
| Is there anything that flowcharts can't do? (Just search our archives: we think not!) Surely making a kick-ass movie requires a nimbleness of creative thought that could never be captured in a rote set of instructions -- we all saw that Wes Anderson American Express commercial, right? Well, if these tongue-in-cheek posters for Canal+ are any indication, just following a bunch of arrows can make you into a world-class auteur in any number of genres, from action to horror to porn! Read more |
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| | Design Thinking Is A Failed Experiment. So What's Next? |
| Bruce Nussbaum |
| The decade of Design Thinking is ending and I, for one, am moving on to another conceptual framework: Creative Intelligence, or CQ. I am writing a book about Creative Intelligence, due out from HarperCollins in fall 2012, and I hope to have a conversation with the Fast Company audience on this blog about how we should teach, measure, and use CQ. Read more |
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| | Infographic of the Day: How America Describes Itself In Dating Profiles |
| Morgan Clendaniel |
| If you've ever attempted online dating--or really, even filled out your Facebook profile--you know how agonizing it can be to figure out exactly what information about yourself you want to include. How can you quantify, in writing, how you want the rest of the world to see you? That's the question that the artist R. Luke DuBois aims to answer in his series of graphics, A More Perfect Union. Read more |
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