Fossil is running a tin design contest. Top prize is $1,000 bucks, a tin featuring your design (duh), and best of all (IMHO), a trip to their design studio in Dallas.
They started the contest in June and it looks like they have a paucity of entries (and even fewer quality submissions). So you have until September 12 to get your design on and have good odds on some good loot.
So I was having a conversation at work today about how creative folks always have big ideas rattling around in our heads. In some cases, we’re fortunate enough to have the skills and/or time to act on those ideas.
It made me think of a quote I ran across the other day:
“Exhilaration is that feeling you get just after a great idea hits you and just before you realise what’s wrong with it.” — Anonymous
It’s really easy to kill any idea (good or bad) by looking for shortcomings:
“This ‘telephone’ has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us.” –Western Union internal memo, 1876.
Sometimes it’s best to ignore the naysayers, overlook the obstacles, and act on your ideas. Dammit.
Those quotes and many more can be found here.
Urban Photo Safari got a write up in the Kansas City Star this weekend. (scroll to the bottom of the page.)
Way to go Dean! Hopefully this will translate into a even bigger turnout next year, then you could retire “The Schwab” and institute “Big Time”.
That would be tightâ„¢.
…blogging and podcasting. Apparently they’ve been at it for a while now. It’s an interesting and fairly candid look inside part a big ol’ multinational ad agency. Check it out here: Optimism
I was going to review their podcast, but it’s a 40MB+ mixtape with peculiar audio samples sprinkled throughout. I can’t recommend waiting for the download.
Guess I’ll be sticking with the consistently capricious American Copywriter podcast.
As for me, today I have the pleasure of being stuck in Richmond International Airport. Oh well, at least they have free WiFi.
At first glance, this just looks like video projected on a Mini. But you can actually interact with the video by touching the car. Watch the video for a demo:
