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

These invisible barcodes make plastic more likely to be recycled

This office was built with 165,312 screws so it can be disassembled and reused

Flash funding: the growing trend of large gifts that fund tons of crowdfunding campaigns at once

Creativity

Disney’s Baby Yoda meme mix-up could’ve been a marketing disaster

Sacha Baron Cohen follows up his viral speech with a scathing op-ed against social media

SNL’s cheeky fake ad for jeans has more Will Ferrell butt cleavage than you can handle

Co.Design

Want to live longer? Surround yourself with plants

The fight for DACA and Dreamers gets a powerful new brand

Colugo wants to win the stroller wars with its new $445 design

Work Life

I’ve reviewed hundreds of entry-level résumés. Here’s what it takes to get my attention.

Too busy for self-care? Ask yourself these four questions

How to manage your energy like Tom Brady