5 Charts That Every Creative Can Relate to


Whether you’re a designer or copywriter, director or photographer, it’s cool to say what you do at a cocktail party. But the reality of creative professions is a little less glamorous. Long hours, frustration, and endless wrestling with your creative muses (or clients) is the daily existence. For anyone who knows how real the struggle is, here’s a little chart-based humor to keep you moving. Stay strong out there.

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Want to Be More Creative? Do Something Boring


If you often find yourself bored at work because you’re doing the same dull things over and over, you might be secretly helping your creativity. Yes, it sounds crazy and counterintuitive, but hear us out. A 2013 study by psychology researchers at the UK’s University of Central Lancaster found that being bored at work—roped into monotonous tasks—give us time to daydream, which, in fact, makes us more creative. For the study, researchers devised two experiments.

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ONDU: A Pinhole Camera Launching With a Very Snappy Campaign


When it comes to getting projects off the ground, there’s nothing like Kickstarter. But, when it comes to Kickstarter, there’s nothing more important than a good campaign. ONDU is one of those projects. Elvis and Benjamin Halilović are the two brothers behind the slick little pinhole camera that combines good design with top-notch production to create a campaign that’s going sky high – already crushing their $20k funding goal by over $60k. Let’s look at a few aspects of this Kickstarter campaign that make it really snap.

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What’s the Best Way to Call Out Polluters and Advertise Your Air Filter Company? Try Projecting Crying Babies on Smog.


Chinese Premier Li Keqiang declared a war on pollution last year, but despite efforts the problem continues to grow, leaving hundreds of thousands of citizens dead annually due to poor air quality. For their Breath Again campaign, Chinese air filter company Xiao Zhu took an unconventional approach to advertising their product and called out some of the countries biggest polluters in the the process. They did it by projecting crying babies on clouds of pollution.

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Visualizing the Movements of Chess Pieces Using Millions of Games

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Every chess piece has a signature footprint after millions of moves. Using the 2.2 million chess games stored at Million Base, Steve Tung has visualized the movements of individual chess pieces across the board. Each of his images reveal that unique footprint and some of the most popular strategies used during a normal game.

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10 Inspiring Ways Brands Celebrate Holidays on Instagram


There’s a reason we honor holidays and special events: It brings us all closer together. And on social media, it gives us an excuse to join a celebration—or a conversation at least. Hence, practically every day is national something day.

Brands are particularly known for joining in, sharing their own social posts to honor special events. Unfortunately, these posts can often feel cheesy or forced.(We’ve all seen the cringeworthy 9/11 tweets.) But sometimes, brands do it right. On Instagram, the social platform that is the perfect place to experiment with visual content, we’re seeing lots of companies doing creative and clever work around holidays. That said, here are 10 great pieces of content that we’d like to celebrate.

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Be Emperor of the Penguins with Daniel Rozin’s Bizarre New ‘Mirror’


We just covered Daniel Rozin and his collection of bizarre interactive ‘mirrors’ a few weeks ago, but this new creation can’t be missed. His ‘Penguins Mirror’ let’s you be emperor of the penguins – just stand in front of all 450 motorized stuffed animals and they turn their white bellies towards you reflecting your silhouette. Is it brilliant or just absurd? Probably the best of both, and a really good laugh too.


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