Loving the work of Melbourne artist Tessa Chong at The Sketchorialist.
If you only read one thing.
- Fascinating interview with director Steven Soderbergh. Especially look at how he directed Matthew McConaughey in Magic Mike, his thoughts on not being number one, and how “ambiguity is not on the table anymore” in film. | Vulture
Management.
- Apple versus the strategy professors | Harvard Business Review
- Stop fetishizing failure | Creative Intelligence
- “PR got a head start on social but it’s been rapidly eroding.” It’s time to re-invent public relations | Logic+Emotion
- Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg attacks gender stereotypes at work | The Guardian
Innovation.
- Ditch the pitch: rethinking the agency selection process (an interesting article aimed at client organisations) | Sparksheet
Technology.
A few stories about Twitter’s new short video/borderline gif service, Vine.
- On Vine: six seconds of divine banality | BBH Labs
- Can you tell a story in 6 seconds? A look at the tiny creations of the individual and brand users of Vine so far suggests… maybe. | Co.Create
- Vine, Vinepeek, and visual efficiency | Cyborgology
Insights.
- Rigidly defined areas of doubt | now in colour
- What if ad agencies and design studios stopped fighting and got together? | glyndot’s posterous
Creativity.
- How to build a New York Times bestseller (or maybe not) | Whatever
On Nextness this week.
- Nextness Visual Diary | Toilet paper, “you have had a personal encounter with me,” handwriting, rugs, landfill and more
- Those were the days: advertising in the 1930s.
STW Group news.
- “I really thought to myself that I deserved to get cancer because I’d been a self-centred, ignorant blind guy.” Chris Savage on the cancer scare that changed his life and priorities. | AdNews (PDF)
- How an exotic tropical fish made me think about big data while on holidays | Marketing magazine
- Revisiting the Bullseye vision | IT Wire
- Canines, culture and creativity | Spinach