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

Here’s how the footprint of the plant-based Impossible Burger compares to beef

White people cause the most pollution, but people of color suffer the most from it

Sweetgreen is redesigning school lunches to make them more healthy–and more fun

Creativity

Tavi Gevinson’s impression of Elizabeth Holmes is bloody good

Miller Lite mocked Dilly Dilly this morning with a new ad but Bud Light already has a response–and you can see it here

You have to see this Cheetos-themed mansion, a real thing that actually exists

Co.Design

Dyson’s $600 task lamp is the closest you’ll get to natural light indoors

McDonald’s new HQ makes it look more like a wellness startup

This new startup makes affordable outdoor furniture–out of ocean plastic

Work Life

5 ways to give yourself more time when it feels like there’s never enough

This is the one simple act that helps me be more creative

Why you need unlike-minded people on your team (and 3 ways to get them)