Digital Digressions

The future of education

This movie is a great peek into how education should really be - to grab the interest, attention and creativity of kids out there. It makes such a difference to learn by doing and learn by making - and personally, after graduating from the International Baccalaureate programme and going to university - I wanted nothing more than to get out there into the real world to work on something real, to see what I actually could do and what I was good at. So I left after only 3 weeks and went to work for a children's charity

The death of traditional marketing

The world is changing at an unprecedented pace. Connectivity is changing how information is created and distributed and conversations between consumers build brands more than communication strategies do. It’s a cut throat world out there as this little video illustrates better than a 1000 worlds. So for those who still wonder why communities are so important and why companies need to learn to converse with their consumers rather than talk at them - look no further:

Anything worth doing is worth doing well

A post over at my sister-blog about the research project on defining Systematic Creativity, the unique kind of creativity that playing with LEGO facilitates. The findings will be published later this year and in the meantime here is the post. A though project, but then: anything worth doing is only worth doing well..

A monster New Year!

This little thing found its way to my inbox and what a lovely surprise indeed - reminds me I need to draw more and stop spending life tapping on a computer keyboard! Happy New Year to all courtesy of the continuously digressing crew and Stefan Bucher, creator of The Daily Monster website.