Ads of the Week (Jan 26, 2010)

16 Articles Every Creative Advertising Student Should Read

The Brain That Changes Itself / By Norman Doidge & Mike Sheerin

Daniel Pink – A Whole New Mind – Book/DVD (Better Life Media) Review / Concepts / Ideas

After reading Daniel Pink’s amazing book A Whole New Mind, and then watched the DVD (55 minutes, basically him going over all of the main ideas in the book), I had SO MANY thoughts…

Best of TED Conference 2009 – Elizabeth Gilbert – A different way to think about creative genius – OLE !

TED 2009 took place this weekend 20 minutes from my place. For a few moments about a month ago, I was actually playing with the idea of paying the $6000 for the 3-day conference but then came reality – $6000?!? A few moments later, when reality kinda’ took a nap, play came back and said:

Roadtrip Nation – The Open Road

The Roadtrip Nation “epidemic” started in 2001 with “The Open Road” movie but it didn’t really tip until 2004 when PBS decided to make it a series.

Sir Ken Robinson – Do schools kill creativity? (TED Conference 2006)

Sir Ken Robinson makes an entertaining and profoundly moving case for creating an education system that nurtures (rather than undermines) creativity (at TED conference):

CMYK Call for Aspiring Creatives Vol. 44, February 6-9.

CMYK Magazine’s Call for Aspiring Creatives Vol. 44 is planned to start at 2:00 pm on Feb 6, 2009 and conclude on Monday, February 9.

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