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

Impact

This tech quickly searches your blood for more than 1,400 pathogens

What to expect when New York bans plastic bags

Heathrow’s planned new runway just got canceled—thanks to the Paris Agreement

Creativity

‘The Invisible Man’ is the techie film you didn’t see coming

A pitch for ‘SNL’: Make John Mulaney the permanent host

How a 6-year hiatus led to R&B singer Luke James’s creative emancipation

Co.Design

These vibrant posters track the rise of China’s economic might

Semitrucks are about to look totally insane

Nap pods are here to making flying economy less dreadful

Work Life

How HR leaders are preparing for the Coronavirus

I asked experts to analyze my to-do lists. This is what they found

How to work with someone who isn’t emotionally intelligent