Five new ideas that blew us away

21.04.10 | Posted in Think by Toby_S / No Comments >

TED (short for Technology, Entertainment, Design) is extraordinary and eclectic series of free conferences, packed with inspiring speakers and some of the most brilliant and articulate minds of our generation.

The current Sunday Publishing favourites, well worth checking out, are:

1. Ken Robinson on education – a brilliant analysis of how Western education systems fail to nurture creativity
2. Rory Sutherland on advertising – the most incisive and wittiest ad man in the UK
3. Tipping Point author Malcolm Gladwell on choice and happiness – as illustrated by spaghetti sauce
4. Hans Rosling on how unlocking data challenges our assumptions on the developing world
5. And finally, because he’s my old boss and a genius presenter, Julian Treasure on the effect of sound on our lives

How simplicity always wins out

08.04.10 | Posted in Think by Matt_B / No Comments >

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It’s always exciting when a magazine breaks the mould. Fantastic Man did it three years ago when designer Jop van Bennekom and journalist Gert Jonkers set out to reinvent ‘the gentleman’s style journal’. The title’s minimalist design and fresh take on fashion photography – a knowing, arch style – had an immediate effect on the rest of the men’s magazine market.

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Worth a thousand words

31.03.10 | Posted in News, Think by Vicki / No Comments >

Gavin's answer to OBC

There are a few questions that are notoriously difficult to answer. “How do you solve a problem like Maria?” obviously tops the list of puzzlers, but it’s closely followed by that age-old conundrum, “How do you illustrate a subject like outcome-based commissioning?”

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All you need is love: lessons in relationship-building

03.08.09 | Posted in Think by Toby_S / No Comments >

November 1982, NSPCC disco, Worplesdon, Surrey.

I, along with 250 teenagers, have downed the last of the fruit punch. Outside there’s an army of estate cars with irritated parents waiting for the party to end. Inside, I have at last summoned enough courage to prise myself off the wall and shuffle onto the dancefloor where, to the sounds of René and Renate’s ‘Save Your Love’, I manage to score my first kiss. Blimey!

Sadly, Melissa (how could I forget) and I never formed a relationship. No matter how much pocket money I expended on red stationery and silver pens, my billets-doux were never returned. It was an early lesson in relationships.

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