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In issue#9 we speak with Illustrator Richard May and Designer, Photographer Jason Arber of Pixelsurgeon.

Pixelsurgeon is an art, technology, culture, music, games and movies portal, that’s fueled by caffeine, a hand-picked team of newsposters, insanity and passion.

INTERVIEW LINKS:
pixelsurgeon.com - A digest of the creative, strange and interesting
blackconvoy.com - In short, it’s a collective
childrenoffinland.com - Jason Arber’s Design Thinger
richard-may.com - Richard May’s Illustration
audiosurgeon.blogspot.com - Pixelsurgeon’s podcast

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In issue#8 we speak with Tracy Thirion, founder of Bamboo Worldwide, on the subject of Advanced Ideation Principles and Brainstorming. One of the many things we learn is the fact that the Creative Director isn’t necessarily the most creative expert {Xpert} in your herd.

Tracy suggests the following:

Purple Cow by Seth Godin
More Lightning, Less Thunder by Bob Eckert and Jonathan Vehar
Optimize The Magic of Your Mind by Sidney Parnes
How To Have Kick Ass Ideas by Chris Barez Brown
Moderating to the Max by Jean Bystedt, Siri Lynn and Deborah Potts

The conference that I highly recommend is the Creative Problem Solving Institute (CPSI), as well as checking out their parent organization for local events: Creative Education Foundation | www.cpsiconference.com
Additionally SUNY Buffalo has a Masters program in Creativity that is highly targeted!

Visit Bamboo Worldwide: www.bambooexperience.com

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In issue#7 we speak with Luke Williams, Associate Creative Director for frog design.

Luke talks about Taking Your Design to the Next Level, creative brainstorming, innovation and the history of frog.

frog design is a creative consulting firm founded in Germany in 1969, where it worked with firms such as Wega, Sony, then Apple. Today, frog design works with Fortune 500 clients to evolve, expand and envision their businesses, by identifying emerging market opportunities and transforming ideas into compelling product and service experiences. Recent clients include Nextel, Disney, and Hewlett-Packard. frog also has a broad range of industry expertise ranging from retail to entertainment, finance to medical, consumer electronics to automotive, and software to fashion, among many others. The company is headquartered in Palo Alto, California and employs over 300 individuals with an eclectic range of backgrounds.

Luke Williams is Associate Creative Director for frog design, and heads the Industrial Design practice for the New York studio. Prior to that, he worked in frog’s Silicon Valley and San Francisco studios as a creative lead for projects spanning a wide variety of enterprises such as Motorola, Logitech, Disney, Hewlett-Packard, Microsoft, Yahoo!, and Daimler Chrysler.

He brings with him 10 years of professional facilitating and speaking experience, having presented at conferences and moderated seminars in the USA and abroad for audiences ranging from 50 to 500. He also lectures regularly at universities such as Columbia Business School, California College of the Arts, Parsons School of Design and NYU Stern School of Business. Luke’s opinions on innovation and design have recently been sought after in interviews with National Public Radio (NPR), Business 2.0 Magazine, ID Magazine, The Chicago Tribune, and The Wall Street Journal.

Visit frog: frogdesign.com

We want to hear from you! If you have any questions for Luke or comments for the show, email us: podcast at CreativeXpert dot com or leave a message at 206-20-CREATE. We’ll play your comment on the show, so keep it real and represent.

Additional music for this show was provided by Bryan Mark from the album Kunghay. Brian is at blog.xuru.net

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In issue#6 we speak with Patrick Riley and Jason McVearry of a brand-spankin’-new advertising company called Vantageous.

Vantageous is an advertising network comprised of high-end design communities and art publications. The company leverages the company’s existing relationships in the online art world to develop a gateway for discerning advertisers interested in reaching this valuable demographic.

Patrick and Jason tell us how hosting innovator, Media Temple, took a chance with this great opportunity.

Visit Vantageous: Vantageous.com

We want to hear from you! If you have any questions for Patrick, Jason, or comments for the show, email us: podcast at CreativeXpert dot com or leave a message at 206-20-CREATE. We threaten play your comment on the show, so keep it tight and drop it like it’s hot.

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In issue#5 we speak with Jeff Robbins, Drupal ninja.

Lullabot is a web development company focused on “making open source easy” by creating sites with Drupal, a content management system {CMS} that is gaining serious ground. Jeff introduces us to the world of Drupal and tells us about a few of the projects they’re working on: MTV.co.uk and TWiT.tv

Jeff also explains, with the rising awareness of Drupal, there is a high demand for designers and core developers in the Drupal community.
Visit Lullabot.com for training, the Lullabot Podcast and Drupal.org

PS: If you didn’t already notice, Jeff is the husband of designer Jennifer Robbins, who we spoke with last week on issue#4.

A few unrelated links we dropped on the show:
istockphoto.com, lomography.com

We want to hear from you! If you have any questions for Jeff, or comments for the show, email us: podcast at CreativeXpert dot com or leave a message at 206-20-CREATE. We might even play your comment on the show.

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In issue#4 we speak with Jennifer Robbins, Web Designer, Author & Chef.

Jen tells us about Cooking with Rockstars, her original production over at The Jenville Show, featuring alt-rock musicians talking about what they like to cook. Listen for a special segment by Jack Black.

She also designed the planet’s first commercially-driven web site while working for O’Reilly & Associates. Jen is also the author of three web-design books, all in their third edition. These books are: Learning Web Design, Web Design in a Nutshell and HTML: Pocket Reference. Note: The third edition of Learning Web Design will be released at the end of the year.
Visit Jenville at www.jenville.com

We want to hear from you! If you have any questions for Jennifer, or comments for the show, email us: podcast at CreativeXpert dot com or leave a message at 206-20-CREATE. We might even play your comment on the show.

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In issue#3 we speak with Josh Williams, the owner of Firewheel Design - a design firm that fuels icon and interface design for web2.0. I wanted to talk with Josh about the design of their amazing online invoicing tool called Blinksale, a tool that I couldn’t be without.

Firewheel can be found online at firewheeldesign.com, also check-out Blinksale.com, IconBuffet.com and IHeartRootkit.com

We want to hear from you! If you have any questions for Firewheel, or comments for the show, email us: podcast at CreativeXpert dot com or leave a message at 206-20-CREATE. We might even play your comment on the show.

That’s right - we want you to redesign our masthead!
This isn’t a contest. You’re all winners. We’d like to get as many submissions as possible which will become a great revolving collection, and thought you would want to submit yours. Your identity/branding will be visible in the image, so it’s like a HUGE banner ad. So, if you want: remix the logo, or whatever…

NOTE: The placement of the logo within the image doesn’t matter.
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In issue#2 we speak with Rich Roat & Andy Cruz, the owners of House Industries - a creative company that makes fonts, illustrations, t-shirts and makes things just look cool.

House Industries can be found online at houseindustries.com or visit house33.com

We want to hear from you! If you have any questions for House, or comments for the show, email us: podcast at CreativeXpert dot com or leave a message at 206-20-CREATE. We might even play your comment on the show.