Creative CombosSome of the best ideas come from uniting two seemingly disparate items. Of course, some of the weirdest ideas come about in the same fashion…
Update: This is nowMYBrainBlog(.com)BrainBlog is changing its address!I’ve been blogging a long time.The official archives go back to 2002, but at least a year of earlier files have been lost in the ether(net) as I’ve updated over the years.When I started, Blogger was the best thing going. Firstly, it was one of the ONLY things […]
Free Your Mind.Open-source program makes it easy to try mindmap software. While I commonly use mindmapping as a creative tool, it’s usually restricted to handwritten form on an eraserboard during brainstorm sessions, or in one of my notebooks for development of my own projects — but, my buddy Stephen Nipper (an incredible Intellectual Property attorney […]
Just Missed The MarkClever Concept That Didn’t Go Quite Far EnoughOne of the worst things you can do when brainstorming is to stop too soon — to be content with the “first right answer” when a bigger breakthrough is just another suggestion or two away.I feel this is the case with the Powerseed.Powerseed is a […]
The EspressovatorContest yields winning coffee shop imaginingsIlly Cafe teamed up with Domus magazine in April 2004, asking students and designers under the age of 35 to create new ways of enjoying coffee (“create a place for meeting, discovery and encounter”). Over the course of 10 months, 704 entries were received, roughly half coming from outside […]
Necessity Is TheMother of Invention —And like any other Mom, she has to cut the crusts off li’l Invention’s sandwiches.Found this gizmo online this morning and it made perfect sense for a BrainBlog entry. Creative, useful, and just a little bizarre. I suppose you could just use a knife — but where’s the fun in […]