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Collabregator: the collaboration aggregator

Large Blue have created a beautiful web application for the Super Contemporary exhibition currently showing at the Design Museum. The Collabregator maps the connections of London’s creative community. It invites designers to add their past collaborations and see how they link to other projects and individuals/companies on the interactive site.

Large Blue's Collabregator

It’s a great way of showing ‘six degrees of separation’ in the creative sector, showcasing past projects and connections, and even to check out the credentials of potential collaborators.

July 11 2009 | Online tools | 1 Comment »

Online tools #2: capturing creative moments

Being creative doesn’t just happen between 9am and 5pm – you can’t switch it on and off. Good ideas come at the most unexpected moments, and that spark of inspiration can happen spontaneously. So when you’re working on a project within a team, how can you capture that creative spark and share it almost instantly?

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May 25 2009 | Creativity and Online tools | No Comments »

Online tools #1

Here are two online tools that support creative collaboration.  They’re both very visual, free and easy to use.

Bubbl.us
Online brainstorming: create bubbles, ‘sub’-bubbles, connect blocks and change colours

Bubbl.us

Twiddla
Online meetings: sketch, draw shapes, post notes, add text, upload and annotate images, upload documents and real-time chat with team members

Twiddla

May 17 2009 | Online tools | 2 Comments »

Collaborative spreadsheet art (using Google docs)

A little out of season, but this is amazing (and very pretty!).

Don’t be fooled though – I’m sure it wasn’t completely spontaneous, and they had a do a little planning before getting stuck in :)

May 17 2009 | Creativity and Online tools | 1 Comment »

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