Category Archives: Intelligence

Paris

By Chungaiz | Published: March 9, 2011

EF – Live The Language – Paris from Albin Holmqvist on Vimeo. EF, the foreign language schools, have produced these charming films. After the Paris guide from a few days ago, it made sense to share them. Good for typology geeks too! Check out Barcelona, London, Beijing and more here.

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Run, don’t Run

By Chungaiz | Published: March 8, 2011

Funny and insightful article about running and films, by Mark Oppenheimer at The Believer magazine. No American eight-year-old thinks it would be cool to be a distance runner someday. If he becomes one, it is not the realization of a dream, but the acceptance of reality… In cross country, even championships are a bit disheartening, [...]

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How Interior Design Can Increase Productivity

By Chungaiz | Published: November 5, 2010

In 2005 the Gensler Workplace Survey introduced the Work Place Index (WPI). They analysed four key criteria that allow the creative and innovative power of employees to be fully realised: focus, collaboration, learning and socialising. The top performing companies were found to spend on average 23% more time collaborating, 40% more time learning, and 16% [...]

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The Creative Internet

By Chungaiz | Published: October 12, 2010

Useful reference of “interesting” and “creative” things currently being memed around the internet. The usual augmented reality, word-clouds, projections and interactive videos are paired with new examples, grouped into areas of Audio, Movies, Visual, Art, Physical, Light, Tech, Politics, Sport, Books, History, and of course straight up, old fashioned, Advertising.

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ideo on the future of books

By Andy | Published: September 24, 2010

The Future of the Book. from IDEO on Vimeo.

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Five Steps for Consumer Brands to Earn Social Currency

By Chungaiz | Published: August 18, 2010

What are you going to do with all your Facebook fans, Twitter followers, and YouTube audiences? “We forget that these programs have to pay into something, a shared value or a social context where the product actually gets used” says Erich Joachimsthaler at Vivaldi Partners. Smug, stunt-driven apps, games, and videos generate buzz but little [...]

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How You Can Be Happy

By Chungaiz | Published: August 12, 2010

Written by the unfortunately named Wrath and Hater (sorry, Rath and Harter), Wellbeing: The Five Essential Elements explores what it takes to make us happy. As Lord Layard, the Labour government’s one-time “Happiness Czar” launches the Movement for Happiness, Gallup pollsters Tom Rath and Jim Harter have released this new book outlining what it is [...]

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Ipad Magazine Reading

By Chungaiz | Published: April 6, 2010

Mag+ live with Popular Science+ from Bonnier on Vimeo. Mag+ prototype has teamed up with Popular Science magazine to create a digital magazine app for the iPad. The video above demonstrates how the app works and talks through the thinking behind it. Shame about the lack of search function… that would be most useful. The [...]

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10 Branding Cliches

By Chungaiz | Published: April 6, 2010

We All Need Words have a great number of articles, and training tips, and even paid-for consultancy, on branding. Very worth checking out if you’re working on strategy or branding, or just want to piss off a haughty creative planner! Here are 10 brand strategy cliches to avoid, and why, as a taste of what [...]

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LSN Global and The Future Laboratory

By Chungaiz | Published: March 28, 2010

At the LSN Global trend briefing last week I noted down the following: The rise of the MAVIN nations (post BRICs, we’ll have Mexico, Australia, Vietnam, Indonesia and Nigeria as emerging global powerhouses) 42% of businesses see the recession as an opportunity not a hinderance, and that businesses will change for the better. They see [...]