KILLER INNOVATIONS - PHILIP MCKINNEY

THINK / DRAW / MAKE

Lest We Forget…
Frustrated at seeing designers:

* draw & make but don’t think
* think & draw but don’t make
* think & make but don’t draw

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COLORJACK

Creative professionals daily delve into the world of Color. Color is powerful, it affects us all in countless ways. ColorJack’s tools help us choose the right colors for websites, print jobs, or any design project.

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Patrick's MBTI® Naslagwerk

Vindt informatie op de volgende manieren:

• 4 Dimensies (4D) - EI SN TF JP
• 8 Voorkeuren (8P) - E I S N T F J P
• 4 Functies (4F) - Se Si Ne Ni Te Ti Fe Fi
• 16 Types (16)

Of met behulp van de verschillende lenzen:

• Vier attitudes (4A) (IJ / IP / EJ / EP)
• Vier kwadranten (4K) (IS / IN / ES / EN)
• Vier functieparen (4P) (ST / SF / NF / NT)
• Vier temperamenten (4T) (SJ / SP / NF / NT)

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THE FUTURE OF ADVERTISING - PAUL ISAKSON

PICTURE TO LEARN

If a picture is worth a thousand words, perhaps drawing and visualizing can help science students understand more than they get from their textbooks.

MIT research scientist and science photographer Felice Frankel is exploring this idea through "Picturing to Learn," an educational technique that is being tested at MIT.

Picturing to Learn is creating a data base of over 4000 drawings from various science undergraduate courses. Students are asked to respond to a homework question by creating a visual explanation whose purpose is to teach a high school senior about that particular phenomenon. They are also asked to "evaluate" their own drawings.

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ALLE TESTS OVER... - 123TEST

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WII REMOTE HACKS - JOHNNY CHUNG LEE

Johnny Lee demos his amazing Wii Remote hacks, which transform the $40 game piece into a digital whiteboard, a touchscreen and a head-mounted 3-D viewer. Since the Wiimote can track sources of infrared (IR) light, you can track pens that have an IR led in the tip. By pointing a wiimote at a projection screen or LCD display, you can create very low-cost interactive whiteboards or tablet displays. Since the Wiimote can track upto 4 points, up to 4 pens can be used. It also works great with rear-projected displays.

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ESSAYS ON COMICBOOKS :: NEIL COHN

Force of change abstract : "Various visual techniques can create meaning across sequences of images in interesting and effective ways. This piece examines metonymy, conceptual metaphors, and blending across a three-panel pattern used in strips from an advertising campaign by the Chicago Tribune newspaper."

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KREATIVISMEN - INSPIRATION CARD GAME

Playing Cards to inspire you and to help you find and develop your or other's ideas.

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LEXICAL FREENET - CONNECTED THESAURUS

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BASICS ON INNOVATION

GOOGLE VISUALISATION API

a new Google Visualization API, based on the powerful visualization techniques from GapMinder. the API is "designed to make it easier for a wide audience to make use of advanced visualization technology, & do so in a way that makes it quick and easy to integrate with new visualizations."

next to the classical methods, the amount of new visualization techniques is quite impressive & include motion charts (a la Gapminder), flashy 3D funnels, pyramids, pie & donuts, time series charts (a la Google Finance), data gauges, geographical heat maps & Gantt charts.

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THE BIGVIZ - AUTODESK

At this year's TED2008 conference, Autodesk not only participated as a major sponsor, but hosted a lunch on Sustainable Design featuring Autodesk CEO Carl Bass and IDEO CEO Tim Brown as well as demonstrated a technology experiment called the BIGVIZ.

The BIGVIZ is an exploration in visualizing the Big Ideas presented on the TED mainstage. Two visual cartographers, David Sibbet and Kevin Richards, created over 700 spontaneous sketches of the presenters' ideas using Autodesk Sketchbook Pro software running on Wacom Cintiq tablets and rendered on a Perceptive Pixel multi-touch display. These tools illustrate the power of interactive visualization to present the big picture to foster insight and communicate ideas visually, central principles of design innovation.

We’ve compiled these sketches into an interactive pdf book and video that strives to capture the spirit of the TED Big Ideas.

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het mozaïek - het buitenhuis

Het Mozaiek is een internet-tool waar een groot aantal creativiteitstechnieken te vinden zijn om als groep of individueel tot nieuwe en verfrissende ideeën te komen. Deze tool, ontwikkeld door Marc Heleven, bevat momenteel meer dan 280 exclusieve internetbronnen, 50 inspirerende PowerPoints en een twintigtal audiovisuele documenten die een brainstorm of opportunity scouting versnellen.

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Overzicht creativiteitstechnieken

"Problemen oplossen met creatieve technieken" Ineke Walravens

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