Just over a week ago, 400+ creative minds came together at the Times Center in New York City to focus NOT on inspiration or idea generation, but rather on the mechanics of making ideas happen.
Joao Dornellas, a Portuguese art director who's worked for big-name ad agencies like McCann Erickson and Ogilvy & Mather (Portugal), decided that his portfolio wasn't standing out enough on LinkedIn or the creative equivalent, Behance.
Reddit's Alexis Ohanian, @TheRecruiterGuy's Chris Hoyt, and Behance's Scott Belsky talk about the importance of shower time, living with your parents, and "dangerous engagement," among other things--in a SXSW panel moderated by Fast Company's Anya Kamenetz
All too often, we strive to get everything right the first time around. As a consequence, our products suffer from costly delays and insufficient feedback prior to launch.
Interruption-free space is sacred. Yet, in the digital era we live in, we are losing hold of the few sacred spaces that remain untouched by email, the Internet, people, and other forms of distraction.
These days, "ambition" is a dirty word. People who are "ambitious" are viewed as either selfish or unrealistic. ("That sounds a bit ambitious" is code for "you are going to fail.") Yet it wasn't always this way.
Fast Company's 100 Most Creative People in Business represent the best and the brightest in innovation and creation, but the companies they rep aren't all powerhouses--yet. Here are 10 of the most creative small business drawn from our list of the 100.
At the recent, The 99% Conference, Scott Thomas took the stage to talk about what it was like to design Obama's digital campaign on the fly. This video culls the highlights from his presentation and catches up with him afterward to find out more about his theories on simplicity and his plans for working in politics in the future.
