Paddy Harrington

Paddy Harrington is the founder of Frontier, a creative exploration company consisting of a magazine, ventures group and design studio based in Toronto, Canada. He was formerly the SVP Design Innovation and Digital Creative Director at Indigo Books and, prior to that, the Executive Creative Director at Bruce Mau Design. He has degrees in literature and architecture and has worked in research, architecture, advertising, and design. His clients have included The New York Jets and Giants, Coca-Cola, McDonald’s, Unilever, the Holy City of Mecca, Li-Ning, and the Fogo Island Inn in Newfoundland. He is an award winning writer and filmmaker and has spoken at several design conferences as well as at Brown, Harvard, and the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing.

Innovation By Design

Why Designers Must Put Invention First

Innovation By Design

3 Critical Insights Into Creativity From Jonah Lehrer’s “Imagine”

Here’s why the book is a must-read for designers searching for the next breakthrough.

3 Critical Insights Into Creativity From Jonah Lehrer’s “Imagine”

Innovation By Design

Wanna Figure Out If Your Product Is Any Good? Think Like A News Editor

Determining whether an idea is newsworthy helps you formulate the story you want to tell from the outset, writes Paddy Harrington of Bruce Mau Design.

Wanna Figure Out If Your Product Is Any Good? Think Like A News Editor

Innovation By Design

For Your Company To Last, The “Brand” Must Die. But Stories Should Survive

Three keys for moving beyond branding, and into storytelling.

Bruce Mau Design: 3 Conditions That Set The Stage For Blinding Insight

Paddy Harrington, executive creative director at Bruce Mau Design, recently applied these 3 keys to redesigning an architectural website — a design genre notorious for terribleness.

Bruce Mau Design: 3 Conditions That Set The Stage For Blinding Insight

A Virtual Community That’s Defining the Future of a Physical One

How the Internet Creates a New Strain of Democracy

What Ricky Gervais’s Bruising Comedy Teaches About Innovation

Tech

New EU laws requiring Big Tech to scan for child abuse content are technologically unfeasible

NASA watchdog says the outlook isn’t good for its mega-moon rocket launcher

How Microsoft’s union agreement could shape the rest of the tech industry

News

The IRS backlog of paper tax returns is even more horrifying when you see it in pictures

Who is to blame for inflation? The Fed, not Biden, says this expert

Betterment survey: Many avoid ESG investing because they don’t know what it is

Co.Design

Grenfell Tower: Why it’s so hard to design a fitting memorial to the tragedy

Why Tesla and Apple designers are joining this coffee startup

The future of the office is an open question, but this company is testing 3 designs to figure it out

Work Life

5 lessons on bringing an ‘agile’ approach to any workplace

Leaders, stop freaking out about remote work. Your team can still be efficient in a mixed format

Too many back-to-back meetings can make you act like a jerk, says study