“Creative confidence is about believing in your ability to create change in the world around you. This self-assurance lies at the heart of innovation,†according to brothers Tom and David Kelley in their book, Creative Confidence: Unleashing the Creative Potential within us all.
Source: Creative Confidence: 8 Steps For a Life of Innovation | YourStory
Photo: Edward Blake (edwardhblake)
Abandoned bowling alleys lie scattered across the landscape as if the gods of recreational sports had laid ’em low with a single thunderous strike.
Source: Pinned Down: 10 More Abandoned Bowling Alleys | Urbanist
Vans was founded in 1966 by brothers Paul and Jim Van Doren and their business partners Gordon Lee and Serge Delia. The brand’s first store was located in Anaheim, California and by the late 1970s, it had opened 70 shops in the state and gained a loyal following of West Coast surfers and skaters. Today, Vans has 415 shops around the world and two skate park-cum-entertainment venues in London and Brooklyn.
Source: Vans at 50 – Creative Review
Design, at its heart, is about solving problems. That’s why it’s so easy to talk to designers. They can explain exactly how their interface is built to help you navigate through your phone, or how a device was shaped to make it possible for mass manufacturing on the assembly line.But over the course of hundreds of conversations with designers, I’ve begun to wonder: If most people’s goal is to live a happy life, why did I never hear designers explain how they’d built something to make me happy?
The basic Microbit is a pocket-sized computer circuit board, with USB, Bluetooth, accelerometer, temperature and moisture sensors. In short, it’s like the guts of a smartphone, only it has no screen, and it’s designed to be hooked up to all kinds of other devices. The idea is that kids can learn to build computer-based hardware projects the way you and I learned to build things out of wood, metal, plastic, and cardboard when we were in school. It was made by the BBC in partnership with U.K. startup Technology Will Save Us.
Source: The BBC Gives Computer Hacking Kits To 1 Million U.K. School Kids | Co.Exist
