Why Trusting Your Gut Instinct Might be the Best Thing You Ever do
Fifteen years ago I started a business from the second bedroom of my apartment. I had very limited funds and no experience in the sector that I intended to operate in. Before I started I shared my business plan with my friends and family. The majority of them advised me against proceeding. A good mate [...]
Re-Invent The Book Review with The Rise of “Collaborative Consumption” & Win
We have teamed up with Collaborative Consumption and Shareable.net to give you the chance to win. We believe in sharing and recognize that sharing is also an important emerging industry. It’s critical for the future of the environment, the way we mobilize and socialize—ultimately, the way we live and function together as a society. It’s [...]
Introducing Joshua Lalor to uncluttered white spaces and 6.2
? 6.2 would like to introduce Joshua Lalor, our latest member to the 6.2 and uncluttered white spaces team. Josh is a marketing student at the University of Western Sydney. A stint as a professional cricketer has extended the duration of Josh’s study but has opened many doors and networks for him in the business, [...]
Creative Artificial Constraints | Art Versus Science
This is an idea I’ve toyed with for awhile, but never fully fleshed out. I thought that perhaps putting it out there might generate some interesting feedback to help refine it. Essentially: Creative output with almost no constraints generally falls under the category of Art. Creative output with real-world constraints is more often considered Design. [...]
87 Really Cool Things According to Google
Insanely insightful. This presentation from Google, describing several cases of succesful and creative uses of their platform is full of awesomeness. A must for everybody with a bit of a techie, creative, planner or just bored. Click on the image now. Quick.
‘Members Only’ Grilled Cheese Dealing for New Yorkers
Bread.Butter.Cheese. is the ingenious new underground joint dishing out grilled cheese fixes to downtown New Yorkers. Communicating exclusively through their Facebook page, the anonymous culinary artists list their ingredients online everyday, taking orders via SMS. Operating out of an apartment, those lucky enough to be ‘members’ organise a drop off point and time, collecting their [...]
Infograph | Facebook Reach the 500 Million User Milestone
Facebook reached its 500 million member milestone yesterday and celebrated the event with the launch of Facebook Stories. The monumental moment also played a role in the ABC World News report featuring acandid interview between Diane Sawyer and CEO Mark Zuckerberg. To commemorate the achievement, the team at Facebakers.com put together the comprehensive infographic included below (click to enlarge). [...]
The Honest Tea Campaign Tests Boston.
OK, ignoring the painful soundtrack for a brief moment, The Honest Tea campaign is a good idea and a lot of fun. The company makes the claim social responsibility is central to Honest Tea’s identity and purpose. Nice to see 96% of Boston locals are supportive of the honest approach. Lets hope the cool kids [...]
Are you fit enough to create purpose?
For all but the most committed, an engineering degree is a hard slog. Dry math, laborious labs, drivelling lecturers; no wonder we have a reputation for drinking. So I’ll save you all that, and just pass on my single best lesson from those 5 long (long) years: Quality = Fitness for purpose Yep, 5 years, [...]
Palladium Extend the Pirate Radio Concept to Bread & Butter Berlin
Following the success of London Pirate Radio, a documentary created by Palladium and VICE, and the Palladium x Logan Sama Mix tape release, Palladium continues their association with grime music at Bread & Butter Berlin 2010 with an exciting extension of the pirate radio concept. Palladium and VICE are creating Palladium Radio, a unique pop [...]
How about you, are you a serial busy person? Really?
Here is an extraction of a conversation that took place in my lift this morning on the way to work. Me: “Good morning, How are you?” Other guy: “Flat out mate … real busy, real busy” Me (silently thinking to myself): “Hmmm, shouldn’t have bothered asking … can you tell me something interesting. After all, [...]
14 of the Best Business Cards of All Time
It was not that long ago that we talk about the redundancy of the business card. Whilst we will stick by that post, we would however make room in our wallets for remarkable cards such as these thanks to Web Designer depot. We have picked out our favorite 14. To see the top 100, head [...]
Scenario DNA Presents | Community Participation 3.0
Community Participation 3.0 Scenario DNA have pulled together another insightful presentation on community participation. View more presentations from Tim Stock.
Ando | simple is different to Simple
Apple has brought simple back. In a scary big way. Management books, marketing blogs, podcasts and tweets are urging us to simplify the message, simplify the product, and simplify our lives. But I think the English language is kinda letting us down, because simple is actually quite different to Simple. Here, let me get Steve Jobs [...]
The State of Web Development in 2010
Andrew Fallshaw from Investling has pointed us towards an interesting survey created by Web Directions conferences, and Scroll Magazine, and con ducted by John Allsopp. “The State of Web Development” survey was conducted by professional web designers and developers. It includes details and analysis of all the responses to over 50 questions covering technologies, techniques, philosophies [...]
Kate Kendall Joins the Discussion on the Future of Media
On the 11th of May, uncluttered white spaces will be hosting IF SYDNEY | THE FUTURE OF MEDIA. Our 3rd Innovation Forum (IF) and our first on a subject specific to Innovation in Media. To add to the already extensive panel of experts(Galvin Scott Davis, Pip Jamieson, Ian Lyons, Richard Bradley, Johannes Weissenbaeck and David [...]
What is More Important, Strategy or Culture?
Thursday morning and a coffee break during an important meeting in Melbourne. I was sitting in a really cool coffee shop in Flinders Lane and bumped into an old friend. He runs an Ad agency in Melbourne, its a new company and still in start up phase. As he ducked off to place an order, [...]
Seth Godin talking Linchpin with uncluttered white spaces
] Yesterday morning we had the absolute privilege of speaking with Seth Godin in regards to the release of his new book LINCHPIN. For those of you who are Seth Godin fans, you will enjoy this discussion, for those of you who are not familiar (the very few left), you will be converted. It was [...]
FROM THE BULL | Get Your Hands Dirty (a personal story)
A positive attitude will overcome many barriers. So will a willingness to get your hands dirty. The earlier this lesson is learnt the better. I learnt it at my first job in 1982. I worked in a paint factory. For its time the factory was modern and well-maintained. However, the occupational health and safety standards [...]
Core77 | Real Estate Bust: How Creatives Are Carving Up L.A.’s Empty Space
Posted by Alissa Walker | 31 Mar 2010 on Core77 | If there’s one thing wide, sprawly Los Angeles can pride itself on having, it’s an abundance of space. But now, as I walk though neighborhoods filled with empty box stores and strip malls, I realize we may have far too much of it. Luckily, we’re also blessed [...]
The Story of Bottled Water
Annie Leonard, the mastermind behind The Story of Stuff and The Story of Cap and Trade, has released the latest in her series of animations about environmental issues, just in time for World Water Day. The Story of Bottled Water breaks down the problems with our beloved water in signature Annie Leonard form, with juicy [...]
Episode 1:: The IF Melbourne panel of experts discuss innovation, culture and social responsibility.
IF Melbourne on white spaces tv :: Episode 1 of 3 In late February, uncluttered white spaces hosted IF Melbourne @ Denmark House to a room for 40 guests from various networks in Melbourne to join in a forum on the broad topic of Innovation. The panel included Paul Breen, Mick Calder, Rebecca Scott, Sahil [...]
Heineken: Guerrilla Marketing Event In Italy
Heineken ?taly Activation from Kreatif360 on Vimeo. This is a pretty brave guerrilla marketing event by Heineken on the eve of one of the biggest matches you can imagine, Real Madrid vs AC Milan. Now you’re probably thinking it’s something out on the street, taking advantage of all the crazed soccer fans passing by, but [...]
Dan Ilic on The Future of New Media with Reuters, New York Times & Al Jazeera
Dan Ilic sits down with three executives from some of the world’s biggest media outlets to have a chat about the future of their business. Moeed Ahmad, Head of New Media for Al Jazeera, Chief Scientist at Reuters, Nic Fulton, and the CTO of the New York Times, Marc Frons, were all in Australia talking [...]
