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Creative
Barnardo’s have always created great adverts. Adverts which communicate the lives of those they strive to help. And their recent TV spot titled ‘Turn Around’ is nothing less than brilliant.
I’ve just received a really nice set of postcards from Two Sides Paper featuring six illustrations by Holly Sims.
Illustration has always been close to my heart, having been an avid Beano and Dandy collector as a small boy. Its ability to share and communicate stories is, I suppose, what draws me in (if you can excuse the pun).
I loved this clip from the TED series which features Sir Ken Robinson giving a highly entertaining yet profoundly moving talk on creativity, and the effect on creativity that our education system has.
I’m looking forward to a whistle-stop visit to Dubai next week, where I am speaking on Engaging Employees Through Storytelling at the 8th Middle East Conference & Expo.
Yup, we knew it all along. There’s no substitute for the human being when it comes to communication, but when you can’t get a load of humans in one place and at one time, the next best thing has to be the human voice – even if it doesn’t have a face on the end of it! Podcasting is simple, and as Steve Smith observes, ‘this is new technology that revives our appreciation of the oldest medium.’ If, as he says, old fashioned storytelling may be the most engaging use of podcasting, then bring it on….
I thought it fitting that today, the 60th anniversary of the end of the war between the Allies and Japan, we should make reference to Bristol-based designer Nick Hind’s Living Museum.
Here’s a nice little snippet I read somewhere. I believe that as human beings we respond very well to creativity, yet so much of our communication and day to day activity is sadly lacking in it as we send more e-mails, use more powerpoint and create less face-to-face interaction. Digital technology can be a great tool (no! I’ve just come off a conference call to the US – digital technology is an utterly fantastic tool without which our lives would be completely different) but it needs to be used in tandem with a more creative thought process to be really effective. It is so easy to de-humanise, as we ‘press send’ again and again, day in, day out. We do need to inject more humanity in our interaction. And if humanity can be brought about through creativity….
Creativity is essentially a form of human expression that communicates emotionally and intellectually the individual’s thoughts and feelings concerning themes about self, dreams and visions, issues and relationships. All people are therefore creative. Creativity is about humanity.