Best Advertising Poster Hacks
The excellent poster hack turning the ad into a Photoshop palette, above, by Mr. Tailon, Baveux Prod., Kone & Epoxy in Berlin has been getting a lot of play in recent days, and rightly so. Seeing it reminded me of the transformative power that a good poster/advertising hack holds, so I thought I’d take the [...]
Synchronicity of blogs, football and design
After my previous post on innovation in football strategy and its relationship to design and spatial awareness, some people sent me a few heads-up that there was an interesting convergence of people exploring similar themes in relation to football and its spatial relationships. Geoff Manaugh of the exceptional bldgblog posted a twitter “tweet” last week, [...]
Re-writing the playbook with new ideas: The A-11 Formation
Illustration by Thomas Porostocky; New York Times Following the post on the value of cross-pollinated ideas, today’s comes from American Football. The story here is about the A-11 formation, developed by a High School football coach in California who radically redefined what is possible on the American Football field. In its most simple definition, the [...]
“The next revolution is going to be a revolution of ideas”
For those of you who have attended one of my talks, you’ll have heard this quote before. It is from the late, great Bill Hicks and is usually the jumping off point from the foundation of my talk into the exploration of new ideas. So it’s a fitting quote to begin 2009 with here, as [...]






