A colleague pointed me this morning towards newsmap, a fantastic way to visually present news. The bigger the box, the more stories on the subject; the color identifies the topic. Makes me think about how too often we don't use design to make the complex visually and intuitively simple.
Birding
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From the Gaping Void
Blogs
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- Adfreak
- adgrads - Getting You Into Advertising
- adliterate
- Adweak
- Artificial Simplicity
- Battling Confusion - Chuck O'Connor
- blogarama
- boing boing
- brand autopsy
- Brand Experience Log
- Brand Mantra
- Brand New Day - Business Week
- Brand Tarot
- Brent Terrazas
- Caffeine Goddess
- Chroma
- Coudal
- CULTUREMAKING
- Diablogue
- Digital Hive
- Engagement
- Fallon Planning Blog
- Francis Anderson
- Free association - steve kulp
- Futurelab
- gapingvoid
- Herd - Mark Earls
- Here Be Monsters|blog
- i have an idea
- IDEA(R)S - Steve Chamberlain
- ideasonideas
- Influx
- Instantly Obsolete
- Josh Rubin
- Kevin Rothermel
- Life In The Middle
- LOVE Blog.
- M!ndless
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- On Demand
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- perspectives (phd us)
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- Planning Liberation Front
- PSFK
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- Room 116 - VCU Adcenter
- Ross Cidlowski
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- Sparxoo
- StickyFigure
- Talent imitates, genius steals
- The Adnostic
- The Brand Bubble
- The Hidden Persuader
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- The Mixing Bowl
- The Planning Arsenal
- The Ranch
- theCword
- things
- TIGS
- Tom Peters
- W&K Amsterdam
- W&K London
- Wake Up Tiger
- We Are Social
- work hard + be nice to people
Resources
Food for thought
A Master Class in Brand Planning: The Timeless Works of Stephen King
A.G. Lafley: The Game-Changer: How You Can Drive Revenue and Profit Growth with Innovation
Andrew Razeghi: The Riddle: Where Ideas Come From and How to Have Better Ones
Charlene Li: Groundswell: Winning in a World Transformed by Social Technologies
Clay Shirky: Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations
Dan Ariely: Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions
David Weinberger: Small Pieces Loosely Joined: A Unified Theory of the Web
David Weinberger: Everything Is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder
Douglas Holt: How Brands Become Icons: The Principles of Cultural Branding
Grant David McCracken: Transformations: Identity Construction in Contemporary Culture
Grant McCracken: Culture And Consumption II: Markets, Meaning, And Brand Management
Grant McCracken: Flock and Flow: Predicting and Managing Change in a Dynamic Marketplace
Helen Edwards and Derek Day: Creating Passion Brands: getting to the heart of branding
- Jeffrey Kluger: Simplexity
Jeffrey Kluger: Simplexity: The Simple Rules of a Complex World
Joe Moran: Queuing for Beginners: The Story of Daily Life from Breakfast to Bedtime
Jon Steel: Perfect Pitch: The Art of Selling Ideas and Winning New Business
Leslie Butterfield: Excellence in Advertising, Second Edition
Mark Earls: The Welcome to the Creative Age - Bananas, Business and the Death of Marketing
Mark Earls: Herd: How to Change Mass Behaviour by Harnessing Our True Nature
Matthew Robertson: Factory Records: The Complete Graphic Album
Nassim Nicholas Taleb: Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets
Nassim Nicholas Taleb: The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
Neil Postman: Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
Nicholas Carr: The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google
Richard Wiseman: Quirkology: How We Discover the Big Truths in Small Things
Rob Walker: Buying In: The Secret Dialogue Between What We Buy and Who We Are
Robert H. Frank: The Economic Naturalist: In Search of Explanations for Everyday Enigmas
Steve Hatch: Rigorous Magic: Communication Ideas and their Application
Warren Berger: Glimmer: How Design Can Transform Your Life, and Maybe Even the World
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- not fake on Why small matters
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- Brett on Chaos Scenario 2.0
- how to get rid of cellulite on What we can learn from the mating habits of birds
Shticks
- The brief in the Post Digital Age
Making Digital Work workshop at Boulder Digital Works 5/15/2010 - Connections Planning in 2009
With Jason Oke at Planningness October 09 - We need a new idea about ideas
New Denver Ad Club July 2009 - AgencySpy Op-Ed: Time To Stop The Fireworks?
- The Future Of Marketing for TalentZoo.com
- AgencySpy Op-Ed: What Social Media Revolution?
- Now is the most exciting time to be working in advertising
Presentation at VCU BrandCenter Feb 09 - Planning needs some planning
Presentation at Brazil APG Dec 2008 - What makes a great idea nowadays? (Hall and Partners Fresh Meet Nov 2007)
Thoughts on the energetic brand - Polygamous Weddings presentation Oct 2007
Initial thoughts on creating brand energy - Working With Planning (VCU Creative Director Exec Ed 2007)
- Seven Deadly Sins (APG Conference 2007)
- The Weakness of Words
- What we can learn from urban planning
- What's wrong with reality?
- Why the election is just like advertising
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