Simon Vince and the Collaborate Tree
The backstory… My friend David sent me a link to this poster by Simon Vince a few weeks ago. He’d seen it on the Brainpickings website and thought that I’d like it. I did, and although I recognised Simon’s name, I couldn’t remember where from. The next day, during a random search, Simon’s name popped up on my contacts list. My notes said that we’d met at the... Read More
Developing entrepreneurs for the 21st century
We recently sat on the Education and Talent Development panel at the Barbados Entrepreneurship Summit 2011. The conference is organised by the Barbados Entrepreneurship Foundation (BEF), a charity set up to make the island the world’s #1 entrepreneurial hub by 2020. The BEF has also initiated the drive towards free Wi-Fi across the island which is now at around 60% coverage. ... Read More
Tea with… Hydar Dewachi
Just as we were about to leave the cafe after lively chat and a cup of tea, Hydar Dewachi said: “I prefer to collaborate with others because it brings out the best in my creativity”. It seemed like it was time to get the notebook out and stay a little longer. We spoke about collaborations, creative skills and the idea of “minglism”. Hydar has been a freelance photographer... Read More
Sprinting to the publishing line: The 24-hour book project is back
*Update: The 24-hour book project has moved to 15th October* Around 2 years ago, we wrote about the 24-hour book project, an ambitious initiative bringing people together to collaboratively write, edit and publish a book in just 24 hours. They succeeded back then, and now they’re back with a similar challenge for the South Asian Literature festival – this time with a South-Asian... Read More
Sharing our Vision: the role of visual facilitation in the collaborative process
Over a tea in the Wellcome Collection cafe, we had a chat with Emily Wilkinson from Mindful Maps (who we’ve worked with before on our BracketLab project) about visual facilitation and creative collaboration. We realised that our disciplines had a lot to contribute to the other and decided to pull our thoughts together. Read More Read More
“I am a self-inflicted scope-creeper! Arggh”
We love this confession that landed in our inbox from a client that we’re helping to plan and deliver projects. So with their permission, we thought we’d share our advice. Read More Read More
Making Ideas Happen – book review
Making Ideas Happen is the new book from Scott Belsky – the founder of Behance, an online platform and community for visual creators, and the 99% conference an annual event that brings together creative thinkers to discuss their effectiveness and productivity. Scott is passionate about helping creative people realise their ideas and has been researching the area since his... Read More
Online tools #5: collaborative drawing
If you need to work on basic sketches (e.g. outlines, floor plans, flow diagrams) with your project team, there are some online tools available that are pretty useful. Google Docs has added ‘Drawing’ as one of the file types that can be created (drawings can also be inserted into documents, spreadsheets and presentations). It’s very easy to start sketching away, and existing... Read More
Open Design: Delivered in Beta
This inspiring video shows a collaborative approach to developing products. The workshop “How is social media changing design?” took place during Social Media Week 2010 in Berlin, encouraging designers to share ideas and create together. Thanks to Andrew for the link! Delivered in Beta from KS12 on Vimeo. Read More
Herding cats with social media
Herding Cats with Social Media View more presentations from Bracket. Bracket’s session at Media Camp London 4 during Social Media Week generated lots of discussion about the best methods and tools for helping groups of creatives to get things done. It looked at how social media could be used to support collaborative working between artists and designers etc that are used... Read More