Posts tagged “Creativity”

Q. Who were some important mentors for you?

A. I haven’t really had a lot of mentors. I’ve had to sort of figure things out for myself, because I’ve had a lot of whatever the opposite of a mentor is. I’ve learned a lot from seeing what didn’t work. There should be a word for that kind of boss — “dismentor” or something.

Michael Lebowitz of Big Spaceship, Avoiding Rock Stars - NYTimes.com

Simply the best thing I’ve read in weeks. 

Tags: Design Creativity Advertising
Feb 2 2011

Chef Roy Choi of Kogi Truck fame helped create the Korean quesadilla. He pulled $2M in revenue in 2009. Amazing. 

Tags: Innovation Creativity Delicious
Mar 31 2010

It’s hard to shake the feeling its precisely this sort of largely directionless creativity, free from the constraints of financial targets, demographics and brand-building that has brought Takahashi to this unlikely nook on the other side of his world.

Tags: Design Creativity
Nov 6 2009