This is bananas!

Just happen to be googling myself…when I came across this link to a picture of some work I had in this Minneapolis Foundation Art Gallery. 

It’s really funny.

It was a show for commercial designers and the art they do on the job and off the job. Those bananas were the first painting I was ever really proud of. There’s also some business card and logo designs that you can’t make out well in the photo…

I just think it’s hilarious that this stuff still lives online somewhere…

 

Photos from Southeast Asia

My GodSister-in-Law Kati was in Southeast Asia. I didn’t know she was so crafty with a camera. Check out the photos. 

 

Leopard: Feature Love: Quick Look

The single greatest improvement to an operating system ever.

 I don’t even open half the programs I used to. 

If I need some info from inside a file, I just highlight it and click the spacebar. I can see full files from Word, Excel, Images, Pages, Keynote, Powerpoint, whatever….All without ever opening up the applications.

Quick Look is better than sliced bread. 

Beautiful Devastation

what happens when you put out a fire in a minnesota winter?

My friend Phil takes a beautiful set of pictures. 
 

Formerly of Tak Photo

Soon to be of: Philip Hussong Photography 

You should get married so you can have your photo taken by him. 

The Art of Innovation – 5 Step Process

I’m currently reading “The Art of Innovation“ by Tom Kelley.Tom and his Brother David are head honchos at IDEO, America’s Leading Design Firm. 
Through the years, they’ve developed a simple strategy for unleashing innovation at IDEO. It boils down to this:

1. UNDERSTAND – not only the market, the client and the technology, but also the perceived constraints on the problem. 
2. OBSERVE – Real people in real life. Not focus groups. Real people trying to tackle the problems you want to help them with. 
3. VISUALIZE – The brainstorming session. If I was faced with the problem, what challenges would I be weighed down with and what are creative ways to solve that problem.
4. EVALUATE & REFINE – What works, what doesn’t, what confuses people, what they seem to like. Test, Modify, Retest.
5. IMPLEMENT – If the idea is great  and you can’t implement it, than the idea is of little value.

It’s not rocket science. It’s just about having a managed approach to Creativity and having a roadmap to take the next big thing from beginning to end.  Any thoughts?  

One more time…Props for Caleb

It seems since I posted the last link to his site, he updated his portfolio a bit.

This is impressive: (It’s a slow download, but worth it)

Graphite Audio Drawings

Patient Geeking…from a talented artist.

Check out this time-consumptive work from Caleb Coppock