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“When I walk down Eighth Avenue, man, I see rhythms, I don’t see downtown”

Cab Calloway

What inspires YOU?…

“I never met a color I didn’t like”Dale Chihuly

“I love to walk along the beach and go to the ocean. And glass itself, of course, is so much like water. If you let it go on its own, it almost ends up looking like something that came from the sea” Dale Chihuly

“originality is returning to the origin ”Antoni Gaudi

divine inspiration

inverted tension

JK Rowling

Paul Taylor

“I don't really think about dance except just before rehearsals start. I

put it off. I don't live my life thinking about

dance.”

Olafur Eliasson

Chuck Hoberman

“it’s about relationships, not about things”

common thread

so.. how can YOU truly innovate, break new ground... get new inspiration…

by only looking inward...

…inside the paradigms of your life, within your product category, inside your belief system, within

your comfort zone?

You need to look beyond the obvious

“It’s just good for the soul”

it’s about creating an

experience… environment…object…

that makes people feel differently, and act differently

It’s about solving for a need.. in a way that hasn’t been done before…

liberate yourself to ask questions that will unleash your imagination

the secret sauce

“Good music comes out of people playing together, knowing what they want to do and going

for it. It's really teamwork, one guy supporting the others, and it's all for one purpose… And nobody

conducting, it's all up to you.

It's really jazz …….that's the big secret.”

the secret sauce + innovation

a story

Invigorate a kitchen cabinet brand with

new-to-the-world, functional innovations

Ideal realityinspiration

“I want my cabinets to Last a long time”

“I don’t want to beEmbarrassed”

“I want to know when there’s a leak”

“I want my stored things to stay dry”

“Once it’s damaged, it’s that way forever”

35%

wet environments?

forces of nature

beauty

© 2010

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When times are tough,

beauty and nuance matter

“Art is a distant early warning system that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen” Marshall McLuhan

“Business must now study art (and design), for the artist makes models of problems and situations that have not yet emerged in the larger matrix of society…” John Kenneth Galbraith

Imagine…the day after tomorrow

MAKE yourself look for inspiration where you’ve never looked

before

When you innovate, the only risk is not going far enough

MAKE yourself ask questions that others are afraid to ask

What inspires YOU?…