IdeaPaint provides analog inspiration by transforming any flat surface into a dry erase board.

London based Wilkinson Gallery is hosting  Artworks That Ideas Can Buy, a project by Italian artist Cesare Pietroiusti through July 2009.
All the artworks exhibited in the show are for sale, but the public can’t buy them with money. Instead, valuable and original ideas can be exchanged for the art.
Visitors are invited to leave comments, opinions, proposals, and suggestions related to any of the artworks in the show. Similarly to a silent auction, visitors’ ideas are collected in a transparent box in the space. It’s also possible to email ideas to ideascanbuy@wilkinsongallery.com.
At the end of the exhibition all the envelopes will [...]

This last Wednesday, we were able to attend TED @ State—a US State Department sponsored TED conference.  The one-day conference is the result of the Global Partnership Initiative, which is, in the word of Hilary Clinton, designed to reflect the State Department’s “opening its doors to a new generation of public-private partnerships.”  Basically, the conference was the government’s recognition that innovation will likely not be found inside the Beltway (a sound judgment in our opinion).
TED brought out their heavies to address an audience primarily made up of folks from NGO’s, the US government and diplomatic circles.  The presenters focused mostly [...]

At this years PSFK Conference NYC, I moderated the panel ‘Brand New Rules’, a discussion about whether new rules are needed to govern the behavior of brands in a world increasingly defined by changing social, cultural, technological and economic forces.
Which got me thinking. Hasn’t it always been the role of brands to break rules and create new ones?
And doesn’t that come from brand strategy ideas that create change in culture?
Is ‘new’ just another way of saying ‘good’?
I think we’d all agree that there’s no shortage of good creative thinking in our industry. So why is it often difficult to [...]

Filmmaker David Lynch discusses how he gathers, and uses ideas (and how they’re like fish).

[via Cultural Fuel]

So, we’re proud to announce our next conference: Good Ideas Salon London. We’ve decided to take the format we’ve been running in New York and take it to the UK and make it an all day session. The event will take place on 30th January 2009 at The Guardian’s new offices, Kings Place in London’s Kings Cross.

The aim of Good Ideas Salons is to inject positivity throughout the creative community. Brought to you in association with leading UK newspaper The Guardian, our London event will cover topics mobile, design, publishing, collaboration, experiential design, digital and, of course, London town. We’re still working on a list [...]

Enabled by the connectivity and community sourcing abilities of the web, we’re now more than ever able to share what we know. In both real world meet-ups and online forums, people are coming together to teach and learn from each other.

By now I’m sure that most readers of IF! are familiar with the simplicity vs complex debate. We’ve covered it here and here. It’s a concept that has been born in the mind of Russell Davies and is at the heart of W+K London.