I downloaded the trial version of the Spore Creature Creator and had a good time creating my aliens last night and watching them dance around and act cute (they manage to act cute no matter how fearsome you try to make them). Even with the extremely limited set of creature features available in the trial [...]
Here at Structured Analogy Consultants, we are constantly seeking to refine and enhance our methodology for using analogy for product and process development. One of the ways we do this is through experimentation. We typically have undergraduates at Oakland University participate in our analogy experiments in exchange for course credit. These undergraduates are taught how [...]
I StumbledUpon the OneWord website yesterday. The site gives you a single word (“Daisy” or “Substance”) and you have 60 seconds to write something, anything about that one word. Once you submit your answer, you can then review what other visitors to the site submitted for that word. I actually thought it was a pretty [...]
Well, this certainly counts as creative advertising. The idea is that companies can rent the “Flogo” machine for about $3,500 a day and waft little corporate logos into the sky at the rate of about one every 15 seconds. The little logos will fly as far as 30 miles and as high as 20,000 feet. [...]
I thought I would add a little more activity to this blog by posting links to creative websites, ad campaigns, objects, etc. that I encounter. To begin this trend, I would like to introduce the new mailbox my husband created for the house. This mailbox is creative in several ways. It is not like any [...]