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
BracketLab – the team
Just one more day until BracketLab takes place and the team is now all now confirmed. Now, this is nothing new, but the way the team has formed shows the power of networks. Here is who is involved (in order of how far the network spread): Laura North – copywriter (a previous colleague) Emily Wilkinson (Empathi) – graphic facilitator/illustrator (introduced through a mutual... Read More
Bracket’s CUBELUNCH
Bracket’s lunchtime workshop at THE CUBE was a great success, with lots of interesting discussion about effective creative collaboration using online tools. Questions were raised around approaching intellectual property and attribution, managing egos and how to encourage people to use online tools (when all they want to use is e-mail!). Creative Boom London kindly wrote a... 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
Can you?
We spent the weekend in the fab offices of Wieden+Kennedy for the equally excellent Culture Hack Day 2011. The question “Can you play nicely with other creative minds?” was painted in huge letters across one of the walls. It’s a good one to ask ourselves from time to time. It’s not always as easy as we think. Photo from Culture Hack Day on Flickr. Read More
A (brand) new approach
So, we’re getting a new brand identity for London and the Mayor has invited top companies to pitch for the £600,000 project. The whole thing has caused a bit of a stir, particularly, due to one agency’s approach to the brief. Moving Brands, for the past week or so, have been asking Londoners what they think. Through a dedicated blog and Twitter profile (@we_are_london), MB... Read More
If we all got together…
We recently bought this print by Ornamental Conifer at the “Power in Numbers” Cure Studio/Print Club show. The simplicity of the phrase struck a chord with Bracket: "If we all got together it might just work" by Ornamental Conifer We asked the artist where the phrase came from: Read More Read More
Maintaining your identity – a quick thought
As a talented creative practitioner, your individual work and maintaining a strong identity will always be important. Your own creative talents are why people would want to work with you in the first place! So if you are keen on collaborating, this means considering new ways of working. In addition to developing your own work, you might engage in pop-up projects and even create... Read More
3 points from Bruce Mau Design’s manifesto
I’ve just been reading Bruce Mau’s Incomplete Manifesto for Growth – which outlines the way his design studio approaches projects. There are 43 items, and it’s all well worth a read, but the points that stood out for Bracket were: #3. Process is more important than outcome. When the outcome drives the process we will only ever go to where we’ve already been. If process... Read More